The Igniters

We are a bunch of socially active people, and The Igniters is the manifestation of our efforts at promoting art forms & its integration in our education system. But Why Art forms? Decades of extensive research from the educationists and experts around the world has established that art forms are highly crucial for an individual’s holistic development. Besides improving the academic performance and nurturing creative inclinations, it also fosters our personal development, basically, everything that the gospel of education stands for. But paradoxically, our current education system relegates arts to the margins, as we veer off towards technology and inventions with the advent of the 21st century. In doing so, it fails to extract the creativity and imagination of our multi-talented new generation that can boost innovation. Most of the stakeholders in our education system, parents and educators, in particular, are either oblivious to its importance or they refuse to acknowledge it. And either way, it’s unfair. What aggravates the concern is the ignorance that marks the policymaker’s attitude towards this issue. Although there have been some efforts from independent organisations to promote arts of various forms, but these efforts, owing to their isolated approach have not been effective and have left most of the masses untouched. All of these factors, when put together, create a vacuum that makes our education system reluctant, if not hostile, to artistic and creative advances. And this is the vacuum that The Igniters aim to fulfil. We are acutely aware of the obstacles ahead but, with the support of people from both arts and education community; we aim to make our education system more balanced and inclusive of all the aspects directly linked to the holistic development of an individual as well as society.