During the lockdown, before beginning their weekly training workshops with kids, facilitators of city-based theatre organisation Thought Project started conducting mini check-ins with children to see how they were holding up. Cut off from the outdoors, school and a social life for over a year, little ones have been juggling increased screen time, with little-to-no outlet to express their minds. “The idea was to create a safe space for them to express themselves. In doing so, we realised that there was an increasing need, on their part, to share, because we’ve all been so distanced in the pandemic,” explains founder Aanchal Jain.

Aanchal Jain