Changing lives

Updated on: Friday, February 04, 2011

The Management Centre for Human Values (MCHV) of IIM Calcutta organized the Swami Vivekananda Memorial Workshop in the presence of danseuse Alokananda Roy on February 1. Attended by teaching professionals from leading schools of the city along with professors, students and officers of IIM Calcutta, the workshop centred around the lives of prisoners.

Not many people are aware of the conditions inside jail, how a murderer, a rapist, a terrorist, an arsonist or a petty thief spends his time in closely guarded confinement and even in solitary seclusion in individual cells. Most live in state of depression, despair and hopelessness. The workshop involved screening of a documentary ‘The Jail’ describing the journey, and experience sharing by the resource persons, Nigel Akkara alias Vicky, a hard core criminal and a life convict who served in prison for eight and a half years and after being released is leading a normal life and Alokananda Roy who works closely with prisoners of Alipore, Midnapore and Presidency Jails.

Dedicated to four great thinkers of modern India, namely Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, orations and workshops are organised on a regular basis by MCHV in their names. They serve to correlate the importance of the practice of human values and its relevance to contemporary society.

The documentary, an undisputed proof of strength of human values, showed how love, affection, faith and belief touches the soul of a hardcore criminal and awakens goodness in him.

Changing lives

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