Srujanika Publications

Srujanika was born around 1980 with a diffused idea of spreading the spirit of science among people, especially the young. Over the years it evolved into a resource center on education and science and focused developed print and hands-on resources in these fields. These resource material were aimed at people interested in working with children – teachers, activists, parents, elder siblings… and helped in presenting science as an enjoyable and stimulating experience. Approach to meet this objective was through interactive processes like camps, workshops, discussions etc. which were supplemented by the printed material.

The printed material consisted of activity books as well as theme-based readers for the elder children and workers. Central to all these was the magazine ‘Bigyan Tarang’ launched in 1988. In addition to providing interesting content for and guiding activities, it served as a link among all involved with Srujanika. Initially Bigyan Tarang had 10 monthly issues with summer book special per year but changed to 6 issues plus three books later on. Publication of books with a broader readership were also taken up in collaboration of established publishers.

Changing educational scenario, the first victims of which were the local language and ‘unprofitable’ activities, took its toll. Interest in these activities started to wane and finally, publication of Bigyan Tarang and other books had to stop. Fortunately Srujanika’s new activity with Odia language computing work, started in 2004, moved ahead and the present website is am outcome of that.

The table following lists Srujanika’s publications and provides links for opening/previewing and for downloading these.