Walking Tour Curators
Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee are long-time Bay Area activists and community-based historians who have been involved in over a dozen South Asian American social justice, feminist, LGBTQ+, environmental, and arts groups and campaigns.
The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on their work doing oral history, archival research, and active engagement with historical research in the field. The tour shares these histories with a wider community, to inform, ground, and inspire new activism, in the tradition of movement historians like Zinn and Takaki.
In addition to the tour, Ghosh and Chatterjee organized for the naming of Kala Bagai Way in downtown Berkeley, curated two spinoff art shows, run a blog featuring stories from their research, and created a visual guide to South Asian and African American solidarity history.
They currently work with Bay Area Solidarity Summer, Walk Bike Berkeley, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, and the Berkeley Reimagining Public Safety Task Force.
The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on their work doing oral history, archival research, and active engagement with historical research in the field. The tour shares these histories with a wider community, to inform, ground, and inspire new activism, in the tradition of movement historians like Zinn and Takaki.
In addition to the tour, Ghosh and Chatterjee organized for the naming of Kala Bagai Way in downtown Berkeley, curated two spinoff art shows, run a blog featuring stories from their research, and created a visual guide to South Asian and African American solidarity history.
They currently work with Bay Area Solidarity Summer, Walk Bike Berkeley, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, and the Berkeley Reimagining Public Safety Task Force.