History
“Harshness cannot succeed against gentleness. The arrow speeds its way through the wild elephant but it cannot pierce through yielding cotton. The rock that breaks not for the blows of the long crowbar splits under the gentle stress of the green tree root.”
—Avvaiyar
Centre for Informal Education and Development Studies (CIEDS) is the informal collective space initiated by SIEDS within which multiple ideas, dreams and initiatives have taken root and grown.
Many of these initiatives have taken specific organisational forms, some of which over the years have either dissolved or become independent and autonomous institutionally from SIEDS and disconnected from the Collective while some continue to be embedded in SIEDS and the Collective.