Stories about Neighbourhood Diaries from August, 2008
Neighbourhood Diaries’ Open Box of Poetry
Many of the same Calcutta-based youth who were trained as citizen journalists in the Neighbourhood Diaries project are also featured in the most recent issue of Kalam's annual anthology of poetry, "Open Box", which as been made available here as an eBook.
Neighbourhood Diaries: Training Citizen Journalists in Calcutta's Marginalized Communities
Neighbourhood Diaries, a pilot project of the local NGO Kalam, is training marginalized youth in Calcutta's working class neighborhoods how to become citizen journalists. Through their poems and interviews we discover both the depressing and the delicious in Calcutta's Bowbazar neighbourhood.