Saanjh Samvaad | A different kind of gathering

18 March, 2026| Something different happened on the evening of the 15th of March.

At the APNA office in Ashok Nagar, the team hosted Saanjh Samvaad which is a local youth leadership meet held under the name "Moko Kahan Dhoonde?" The title, borrowed from the timeless Kabir doha, asks a searching question: where are you looking for what you already carry within? It was an apt frame for an evening that asked young people to turn inward before looking outward.

Twenty young leaders came together, invited by APNA to share and to listen. The prompt was deceptively simple: talk about social justice not as a concept studied in textbooks or debated in seminar rooms, but as something lived and personal. What does justice mean to you? What does it look like in your neighbourhood, your family, your daily life? Where have you felt its absence, and where have you seen it quietly at work?

The questions opened something up.

Sharique Alam, Afreen Azad, Md Hassan, Shamima Akhtar, Noorih Akhtar, Ishita Jethwal, Aswathy, Md Zeeshan, Nabeel, and others filled the room with conversation that refused to stay polite or theoretical. People spoke about their localities, their homes, the gaps they had learned to navigate and the ones they had stopped noticing. There were moments of recognition the kind that happen when someone names something you have felt but never said aloud.

The conversation stretched from 4:30 in the afternoon well into the evening, long past the point where most scheduled programmes would have wrapped up. No one seemed in a hurry to leave.

That, perhaps, is the simplest measure of whether a gathering worked.

Just twenty people in a room, thinking out loud together with no grand announcements, no audience, no stage. Only the slow and necessary work of figuring out, in community, what you actually believe. Which is, quietly, how movements are built. Not in moments of spectacle, but in evenings like this one.

Author| Communication Team APNA