What lies ahead, by Kiran Verma

I am Kiran, and I want to share with you what my friends and I have imagined for the Compughar in the years to come.

The path we have taken today is unfamiliar to us. We don't know where it will lead. Being on this path is sometimes troubling, because on it we encounter uncalled for questions about its destination, and we are unable to answer these. But these travels are also challenging, because an uncertain destination implies we ourselves have to chart and steer the course. In this we are assisted by those who have more experience than us.

We are trying to realise our dreams, and to share them with those who join us on the way. We want that our writings and creations travel to different people, like newspapers do! We want to write so much, that we ourselves lose count of how many registers we have filled, how many pens we have exhausted. There should be no end to what we can do. All questions to which we seek answers should be shared. Questions propel us, push the borders of our thought.

In the coming two years, we want to form online networks with different groups, in different geographical locations, just like we maintain relationships with relatives and friends in different cities.

We want to experiment with computers, to make new software. One of these will be an image manipulation tool that can handle animations with a minimum of a thousand layers. We'll have our own website. Till now Joy has designed our publications. Now we'll design our own books. We'll gain more nuanced skills in sound recording – how can we manipulate recordings, how can we remix songs. Maybe we'll make our own music album!

We want to thank all those people who have been our companions and co-travelers till now. We look forward to these journeys. And on the way, we would like to animate many more such labs in different colonies, streets, cities.

Family support is of much significance in our endeavours. We urge all of you here to be supportive of us!

Thankyou.