'Raise Your Voice': An evening with Lions on February 15, 2009

The Lions Clubs in Ahmedabad gave us our first major platform. We set the scene at a zone social organised by Lion Tejas Shah, to engage the 'cub Lions' i.e. the Leos and other audience members in an open-ended battle of perspectives. "Gandhigiri is only possible in films"; "Gujaratis cannot think beyond money"; "About time Ekta Kapoor retired!"; "Amdavadis will rather pay a bribe than follow traffic rules". Agree or disagree, the aim was to invite opinion from the 60-odd audience members, comprising a good social, economic, religious mix of Ahmedabad youth. The OS objective : each of us, irrespective of our background, has a right to dissent and individual opinion.

THE TIMES OF INDIA, FEB. 16, 2009