Transculturating Snakes and Ladders: Decoloniality and Boardgames

This July at the KCC Library, join us for a Library Talk that reshapes how we think about childhood games and colonial history.

Transculturating Snakes and Ladders: Decoloniality and Boardgames 🎲
A talk by Dr. Souvik Mukherjee—renowned Game Studies scholar and professor at Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences.

Discover how Snakes and Ladders and Ludo were once tools of moral instruction and philosophical learning—before colonial rule transformed them into mere “leisure games.”
Learn how play itself carries legacies of resistance, pedagogy, and power.

You may also like the following events from Kolkata Centre for Creativity:

• This Saturday, 21st June, 11:00 am, Chhaapkatha: Tales Told in Colour and Cloth in Kolkata
• This Saturday, 21st June, 06:30 pm, Manav Kaul presents Jo Dooba So Paar in Kolkata
• Next Friday, 27th June, 05:00 pm, Uncover the Legacy of Self- Reliance: Craft and Learning through the Jawaja Experiment in Kolkata