6 • MODULE FOUR: RELATIONSHIPS
ACTIVITY TWO
Talk Show- This exercise is best conducted after the previous one. The teams will share what they have
learned from their survey with the rest of the group. You should have a variety of responses. - Inform the group that you are going to organize a TV talk show where different people are going
to express their point of view. Ask each team to appoint a representative for the talk show. They
will portray one of the characters they have met and interviewed. Give some props (a dupatta or
sari for a teacher, a white coat or shirt for a doctor, a stick for a policeman). Ask for a volunteer
to be the host for the talk show. - After a round of introductions, the talk show host asks the questions they have asked in the
earlier exercise to the people they interviewed. The child representing this character answers.
After the questions have been asked, you could add a new question and ask the participants to
imagine and answer how each character might answer. For example, “What do you think of
condoms?” or “What do you think of smoking?” or “What do you think of abusing a wife?” or
“What do you think of girls marrying after 18 years?” or any other issue that can generate
different points of view.
Review
What did the children learn and feel about this session? How useful was it?Experience from the field
With the street and working children, linking with life was a little difficult. They refused to go out into the
community as they felt stigmatized. (PCI, Delhi). However, CCDT Mumbai had an opposite experience.
The children went into the community, in their school and also spoke to the Dancing Feat instructor.
Children from SFDRT Pondicherry interviewed a sex worker and a brothel-keeper in their community,
which is in a red light area.
This exercise was linked to the activity “How Different are We?” from Module Seven, Growing Up. The
facilitator discussed the scenes from a popular Hindi movie “Dil Waale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” in which the
hero, Shah Rukh Khan, sheds tears illustrating that even a hero can cry. (PCI, Delhi)Tips for the facilitator
Ask the children to reflect on characters played by heroes and heroines. Help them in identifying
characteristics that make people real life heroes and heroines. Introduce the idea that there are heroes and
heroines in real life who do not make it to the movies but are part of our lives. We only have to find them.