O Trust marks third anniversary with Dr Agashe’s ‘Together into the Twilight’

“For O Trust, working with the ageing population is key. And so is our work with children. Poetry is at the centre of everything we do, and our senior citizens have everything to do with poetry. Oral tradition where knowledge is passed down orally from one generation to another had quite a bit to do with the transmission primarily being from elderly to grandchildren in the form of poetry, stories, chants, songs and so on. And that relationship itself is being replaced by devices. So, yes, we are seeing a big dip in that tradition which is alarming because that hadn’t declined ahead of technology. So, our efforts are to once again connect the worlds of the elderly with the youngsters with and without technology,” says O Trust’s Treasurer and Trustee Ragini Rainu, who is also an acclaimed Bhakti singer.

According to Lakshmi Krishnakumar, founder of the O Trust and a Shakespeare scholar based in Pune, their activities are several and they engage in a wide range of pursuits sparking creativity and imagination in children and adults across cultures and communities to bring about policy changes on specific matters to achieve unity in art and science disciplines. “We work to promote creative sectors, especially with a focus on poetry and visual arts, addressing areas where there are barriers to growth such as gaps in art-science disciplines and so on,” she said.

The event will commence with a talk by Dr Mohan Agashe on the topic, followed by the screening of two short films of 20 minutes, each followed by a Q and A session.