Organised a rehearsal for Gokulashthami (Dahi Handi)

Krishna Pawle organised a Dahi Handi rehearsal on August 20th at Cuffe Parade where scores of children participated in the countdown to Gokulashthami - Colaba's most loved festival. Incidentally, five-year-old Tanuja Suresh Thange of Sai Shraddha Mitra Mandal too participated at the event which was thronged with enthusiasts from all over Colaba.

Here go a few snapshots

In The Dock

In The Dock - a DraftCraft Initiative - documents the travails of a section of the lakhs of Banjaras, Kolis, Kannadigas, Tamilians and North Indians residing in South Mumbai's slums, whose lives are fully dependent on Sassoon Docks. 
The documentary on the subject, issued in Public Interest, is a bona fide attempt to document the agony of the migrant labour. A monsoon closure of the Docks, as is a norm, sends everyone dependent on the place for a living, scurrying for alternate means of living during the period, year after year. 
Should Sassoon Docks close down for good, as is widely feared will be the outcome of a series of litigations, it will be a sheer disaster for the poorest of poor working at one of Mumbai's oldest docks.
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Inauguration of Sassoon Docks official website!

On August 15th 2013, Krishna Pawle inaugurated sassoondocks.com at Sassoon Docks through after his Octogenarian father Nivrutti Pawle whose life has been closely associated with the docks. This has been the latest among Krishna Pawle's string of initiatives towards the cause of Sassoon Docks and its people.

Following a short docu-film on Sassoon Docks that provided versions of those affected adversely by an imminent closure of the Docks activities and spoke of how lakhs of lives are interlinked with Sassoon Docks, Krishna Pawle addressed a teeming crowd of workers, godown owner even Banjaras. After all, everyone had a stake at Sassoon Docks.

The website, initiated and owned by Krishna Pawle, is an attempt to create an 'official' version of Sassoon Docks to counter those hundreds of claims that are damaging to the reputation - both locally and overseas - of Sassoon Docks and associated activities.

Nivrutti Pawle inaugurating the website

Krishna Pawle addressing the crowd on the need for the website

Thousands hear Krishna Pawle speak of the industry and travails associated.

The crowds watched the docu-film 'In The Dock' attentively.