Overview

Katradi, an initiative of the NGO Wind Dancers Trust, uses arts in innovative ways for education, health, environmental awareness, and conflict resolution. The Katradi Method of Empathy Based Social Transformation created by an award-winning Bharatnatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran (Founding Trustee), aims to create a just, peaceful, and green world. Katradi has worked on projects across 30 countries and 5 continents with various communities, including underprivileged youth, people with disabilities, geographically isolated people, refugees, and others. The programs on difficult issues of gender, menstruation, vaccine awareness, religious/ethnic conflict, and more are highly successful using art and sport as powerful tools to effect transformation.