Pratiksha K.

Name:- Pratiksha Khasnis
Education:- Graduate of Theatre from Lalit Kala Kendra, Pune University Maharashtra
Degree in 'Child & Adolescent Psychology'

Experience-
I am a graduate of Lalit Kala Kendra. After graduation I got a fellowship from Quest (Qualitative Education Support Trust) called Goshtrang where I lived in Adivasi area/village for 1 & a half year and work with kids through stories, books to develop their language & writing.
I studied pedagogy & learned how stories engage kids & how it's the way for language development.
After completing that fellowship I started an initiative called Tiny Tales.
At, Tiny Tales we dedicatedly work through Literature & Theatre.
Considering the age of the children we study, reserch, translate & create Children's Literature which we perform in front of them.

We demonstrate the stories in front of children by performing it ‘live’ in front of them and give them the pleasure of a ‘live performance’.
We perform the play in their space, in their surroundings.

We usually performe our play in villages, remote areas, adivasi areas.
In this way, they could see, read different books written for them because it's their right too to see the books, to see performance especially develop for them.

I have major experience in writing & translation Children's literature:-
● I wrote a story called Nilya-Pivlya (blue-yellow) for 4 to 10 years old, it was published in a Magazine called Chiku-Piku (It's a Marathi magazine for 2 to 10 year old kids)
●I wrote a poem on Rives which also got published in Chiku-Piku magazine.
●I translated a story 'A sad little fact' in Marathi which got published in Atak-Matak (which is a platform for Marathi Literature)
●I wrote & translated a story for Rugwed Magazine.
●I also translated following stories in Marathi-
1] 'Ish' by Peter Reynolds
2] 'Red: A Crayon Story' by Michel Hall
3] 'The word collector' by Peter Reynolds
4] 'The little cloud' by Eric Carle
5] 'Amy & Louise' by Libee Gleeson
6] 'The water princess' by Susan Verde
7] 'Harold & the purple crayon' by Crockett Johnson

Previous Job-
●I worked at Quest as a Research fellow.