Welcome to Prantakatha
Prantakatha: Margin as Method
Where stories become movements. Where care becomes justice. Where leadership grows from lived experience.Outcomes & Impact
Prantakatha’s work does not end with an initiative or programme. Through its evolving pedagogy, Margin as Method, lived experiences of exclusion become sources of knowledge, leadership, care, livelihood, institutional innovation and policy insight. Across twenty years, these ripples can be seen through five interconnected locations of change.
TRANS MARK:
It is entrepreneurship development for Transgenders . It includes 360° support to Transgender youth towards livelihood. From training to seed grant to mentoring to curated pop-up markets as point of sales. This initiative works with a two pronged approach – one, enabling entrepreneurship spirit among Transgender youth.
MELTING POT:
It is one year-long intersectional youth leadership support journey that facilitates the idea of active citizenship among youth. The programme includes regular youth meets on different topics to enhance understanding around diversity, inclusion, and equality. Internship opportunities with different grassroots organisations across India to help youngsters understand real life issues. Towards the end of the year-long journey, meting potters are encouraged to develop their own social enterprises / start ups.
SAYAN / South Asian Young Queer Activist Network:
It is a networking, learning, and solutions exchange platform across LGBTQIA+ youth across South Asian countries. These counties, which are all past colonies of the British, share many legal and social similarities around challenges and opportunities faced by LGBTQIA + community.
Snapshot of Journey
Prantakatha founded.
Youth-led anti-trafficking work with youth groups, law enforcement and media.
Voter identity and citizenship-access facilitation for marginalised communities.
Awarded the International Visitor Leadership Program by the U.S. Department of State.
Changeloom Learning and Leadership Journey supported youth leadership practice.
Long-term partnership with Kutchina Foundation and youth social-enterprise pathways.
UTTORON begins, building care and livelihood pathways for homeless young mothers and their children.
SAYAN begins as a South Asian network for LGBTQIA+ youth.
ANTAR begins; Prantakatha also leads community COVID response initiatives.
Transgender children rights work with WBCPCR, including research across five districts and recommendations.
Trans Mark develops as a collective of transgender entrepreneurs.
Expansion of ANTAR specialised healthcare and institutional pathways.
Twenty years of Prantakatha; Pride Justice Lab, NAAy Sahayak and new livelihood pathways.
Current Funding and Programme Partners
Together with our partners, we strengthen communities and contribute to the nation’s journey of inclusion and justice.
People Who Stand With the Journey
Prantakatha’s journey has also been sustained by individuals who have believed in its work and stood beside it with trust, care and consistent support.
Partners Across Our Journey
Over two decades, many institutions have supported, collaborated with, advised, hosted or stood beside Prantakatha at different moments. We acknowledge these relationships with gratitude while identifying our current funding partners separately.
Archive
Since 2006, Prantakatha has been weaving stories of change from the margins. This archive captures two decades of milestones, voices and moments that reflect our journey of inclusion and leadership.