Via: "Kath O'Donnell"
Hi everyone, just a quick message to say thanks to the organisers and
presenters of the Sarai i-fellows 2006 workshops. I went along on the
weekend. the sessions were great, quite varied. I discovered a bit
more about India from some of the presentations. the
questions/discussion time was interesting also. will the full papers
be available online sometime in the future? it would be interesting to
read them. I've heard so many things about Sarai and it's projects
over the years it was great to see the place & people in person.
I took a few photos and made a slideshow video of the weekend sessions
if anyone is after a small momento/documentation.
http://www.aliak.com/node/2375 has the video & links to the photos on
flickr.
thanks again
cheers
Kath
Via: Asia Society India Centre
Asia Society India Centre, Penguin Group (India) and the
PEN All-India Centre
invite you to the launch of
Marathi and Hindi editions of Suketu Mehta's 2005 Kiriyama Prize Winner
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
In Conversation
Suketu Mehta and Kumar Ketkar
Reading
Makarand Deshpande and Kishore Kadam
FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2006, 7.00 p.m.
Hall of Harmony, Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai
Tea and Snacks at 6:30 pm
RSVP Susan Menezes
Phone +91.22.6610.0888, E-Mail mumbai@asiasociety.org
Via: Aarti Sethi
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Seminar @ Sarai
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Aditya Behl will speak at SARAI-CSDS on Friday, 1st September 2006,
at 5 P.M., Seminar Room, on the DABISTAN-MAZAHIB, the Mughal
Encylcpaedia of Religion of the 1650s. There will also be a
discussion on medieval Sufi poetry in Hindavi, also known as Sufi
Premakhyans notably Madhu Malti by Manjhan, Jayasi's Padmavat and
Qutban's Mrigavati.
All are invited and we hope many friends will be able to attend.
[Aditya Behl is currently, the chair of South Asian Studies
Department at the University of Pennisylvania, Philadelphia.
Professor Behl's work ranges from medieval Sufi and Bhakti poetry and
romances, to early modern Urdu and Hindi literature and literary
culture.]
Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi - 110054
Via: "Abhayraj Naik"
hi
i will no longer be available on this email address after a couple of
days. I'd appreciate it if my alternate email abhayraj.naik at hotmail dot
com be added to the sarai reader list.
thanks
Via: "Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics"
In conjunction with
Visual Voices of the Marginalized exhibition
At the Gallery, School of Arts and Aesthetics
We cordially invite you to the following events:
A street play on August 31
A discussion forum on September 2
A film screening on September 2
Details:
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STREET PLAY
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Theatre of the Oppressed Presents
Mera Bharat Mahaan
At Ganga Dhaba
5:45 pm
Thursday, August 31
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DISCUSSION FORUM
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VOICE, VISION AND MARGINALITY
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A discussion forum to debate ‘the nature of folk art,’ the relationship between art, political art and propaganda, the notion of the creative individual and collective creativity and related issues
The discussion will be led by Dr Roma Chatterjee, Reader, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics.
At the Auditorium of the School of Arts and Aesthetics
11:30 am Saturday, September 2
followed at 1:30 pm by a screening of
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New Delhi Private Limited
A Documentary
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Delhi, like other mega cities, is being systematically transformed but for whose benefit? How is the notion of a world-class city being interpreted by and intervened in by different sets of people? The city is being ‘developed’ as a site of privatized elite consumption for those who can afford it, and being purged simultaneously of those who build and service it. The divide between the ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ city could not be sharper. This documentary juxtaposes expressions on Delhi - as it exists, as it is envisioned, is likely to become and perhaps should become – constructed as such by those seldom counted as its citizens.
Director: Ravinder Randhawa
Producer: The Hazards Centre
Duration: 35 mins
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Via: sam de silva
Hi,
I wonder if there's any critique / views from the Nettime community on
STRONG ANGEL 3 - http://www.strongangel3.net/
A friend of mine, here in Sri Lanka, attended the 'event' ... His
writing on it can be found here:
http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/strong-angel-iii-final-observations/
I am interested in the military / civilian overlap / confusion / mash-up.
Thanks, Sam.
Via: "Sonia Katyal"
Friends:
A great article on a very thought provoking issue, definitely worth thinking about....
"Now that Cisco, Intel, General Electric, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and
dozens of other companies have established Indian research centers, some
fear that India's potential intellectual property will increasingly flow
to multinational companies. "They're using Indian IQ to create IP for
themselves," says Mashelkar. "We need to exploit our local IQ to
generate IP for ourselves.""
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17339&ch=biztech
warmly,
skk
Sonia K. Katyal
Associate Professor of Law
Fordham Law School
140 W. 62nd St.
New York, NY 10023
Send Email: http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/bio.ihtml?id=766&template=jd
Papers available at http://ssrn.com/author=115375
sure, but isn't the cola ban more important ? at least it seems to me to be
really specific of india, I have heard of no such move anywhere in the world
pepsi and coca have much more users than microsoft and they are using those
products from their own "free will" (or something like that... ads, etc)
whereas most microsoft users have the product thrust on them and are mostly
helpless about it
f.
Quoting Yogesh Girdhar :
> This is good news. I hope rest of the country follows.
>
> ----------------
> URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=138497
>
> Kerala logs Microsoft out
>
> M SARITA VARMA
>
> Thiruvananthapruam, August 26: After the cola ban, it is now the turn
> of Microsoft to log out of Kerala.
