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Today's Topics:

   1. PUKAR Associates at Kala Ghoda (PUKAR)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:08:54 +0530
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From: PUKAR <pukar at bol.net.in>
Subject: [Announcements] PUKAR Associates at Kala Ghoda

Dear Friends:

Several of the Associates in PUKAR, Himanshu Burte, Quaid 
Doongerwala, Abhay Sardesai and Rahul Srivastava, are participating 
in separate events, discussions and exhibitions at the Kala Ghoda Art 
Festival 2002. These are noted below.

We thank Nancy Adajania of Art-India and Rahul Mehrotra of the Urban 
Design Research Institute for their help in organising these events.

Regards,


Arjun Appadurai, Director, PUKAR
and Shekhar Krishnan, Vyjayanthi Rao and Rahul Srivastava, Coordinators, PUKAR
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DISCUSSION: "Hutatma Chowk: A Space for and by the Public"with 
Himanshu Burte and Sanober Keshwar, conceived and moderated by Nancy 
Adajania

Date: Sunday 17 February 2002

Time: 4.30 p.m.

Venue: Bombay Natural History Society Auditorium (Prince of Wales 
Museum Estate, at the intersection of Rampart Row and Shahid Bhagat 
Singh Road, off Kala Ghoda)

PUKAR Associate Himanshu Burte will provide the social and political 
history of this public site through a slide presentation. Lawyer and 
activist Sanober Keshwar will discuss the impact of restrictive 
legislations on the use of public spaces in the city. The session 
will be accompanied by clips from various documentaries by the 
film-maker Anand Patwardhan, which attest to the relationship between 
organised public demonstrations and this site of public resistance.

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ARCHITECTURE: "Impulse: The Ideas Exhibition from the Pragmatic to 
the Fantastic"

Dates: Monday 18 February to Saturday 23 February 2002

Times: 11.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Venue: Coomaraswamy Hall, Prince of Wales Museum

Sponsored by the Indian Architect and Builder and the Urban Design 
Research Institute (UDRI), architect, urban designer and PUKAR 
Associate Quaid Doongerwalla presents 'De-Control: Dissolution of 
Boundaries', along with other architects and designers offering ideas 
and imaginings for the Kala Ghoda precinct.

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READING: Poets from Mumbai Read from their Works

Date: Tuesday 19 February 2002

Venue: David Sassoon Library Gardens (Mahatma Gandhi Road, Between 
Elphinstone College and Army & Navy Buildings)

Time: 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

In association with The Little Magazine, poets reading from their 
work in this session include PUKAR Associate Abhay Sardesai, and 
Arundhathi Subramanian and Jerry Pinto.
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DISCUSSSION: "Table for Two: Omelette and Bun Maska" with Sudhir 
Patwardhan and Vikas Sharma, conceived and moderated by Nancy Adajania

Date : Wednesday 20 February 2002

Venue: Bombay Natural History Society Auditorium (Prince of Wales 
Museum Estate, at the intersection of Rampart Row and Shahid Bhagat 
Singh Road, off Kala Ghoda)

Time : 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

This discussion will revolve around the social life of the Irani Cafe 
during the 1970s, made legendary by painter Sudhir Patwardhan in his 
painting 'Man in Irani Café', and the Irani café of the 1990s, in the 
age of globalisation and consumerism, as recorded by the PUKAR 
Neighbourhood Project in a video essay shot by Vikas Sharma, a 
student at Wilson College. Patwardhan will present slides, while 
Sharma will show clips from the PUKAR film "Aur Iraani Chai". This 
session will express the concerns of the floating population that has 
frequented and found refuge in the Irani café through the decades, 
forming a sense of community there.
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LECTURE: "Writing Locality: The PUKAR Neighbourhood Project" by Rahul 
Srivastava

Date : Thursday 21 February 2002

Venue: Bombay Natural History Society Auditorium (Prince of Wales 
Museum Estate, at the intersection of Rampart Row and Shahid Bhagat 
Singh Road, off Kala Ghoda)

Time : 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

The PUKAR Neighbourhood Project is an attempt to get students in 
schools and  colleges to write ethnographies and histories of their 
own buildings and localities. The project, which was started at 
Wilson College and can serve as a model for other colleges, aims to 
develop a complex understanding of the relationship between 
educational institutions and the urban space in which these are 
embedded. Rahul Srivastava is Coordinator and Associate with PUKAR 
(Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), Mumbai.
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627
Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India
E-Mail <pukar at bol.net.in>
Phone +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in/


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