The Student REVOLUTION
THESE COLLEGE STUDENTS AREN’T AFRAID TO WORK HARD TO FIND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS WE FACE TODAY.
KABEER KHURANA, 18 ANUPAMA AGARWAL, 18
‘Confidently weird’
Kabeer Khurana and ‘confidently clueless’ Anupama Agarwal were constantly bullied in school. “Bullies believe they are somehow superior, but we could never understand how being different made us inferior,” says Agarwal. “The stem of bringing social change was because of this seed that was sown in our childhood.” Procrastination during their 12th standard board exams allowed the best friends to conceptualise their production house Artyculate, which would help them use films and other forms of media to inspire others to make a social change. An architecture student and an aspiring filmmaker, Khurana’s first short film Project Oneness, which talked about discrimination, won him a ‘special mention’ at the Corti a Ponte Film Festival in Venice last year. Commissioned two films for non-profit organisations during the summer, he is now itching to create his next titled Isms.
The Creative Itch
Visual isn’t the only way the students are going. Agarwal, a first-year BBA student at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, enjoys the written word. She runs their blog, Artyculate Ink, with the help of five volunteers who write regularly about individuality, vulnerability, the education system and so on. It’s their third vertical, Artyculate Mic, that has really helped them spread the word about their work. Their first campaign, Confidently Flawed, had people share stories about appreciating oneself. Their first post had Saffana Siddiqui talk about her dyslexia. It went viral with over 400 likes and 200 shares. Website artyculate.net