JotCast | Seminar on Media and Child Rights with Kavita Muralidharan, Ashwaq Masoodi and Pooja Nair

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11:25

The question and answer round begins.

11:33

A member of the audience asks an interesting question to the panellists, "How do we deal with the social tendency of taking children's lived experience with a grain of salt by chalking their accounts up to the imagination?"

11:35

Ashwaq answers fittingly, "Sometimes children tell their stories differently than how they might have shared it earlier, so if you find variations, reiterate the question over and over again in different ways and use your best judgement with the answer you get."

11:37

Pooja adds an interesting point here. She says, "Imagination becomes devious when it's about the oppressed. Imagination is held against the marginalised as well, and is used to disbelieve their experiences."

This brings us to the end of the first session. Thank you for joining.

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