[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 8

Thu Jul 6 14:04:30 IST 2006

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Today's Topics:

1. [Announcements] Open Mic/Open Screen (aarti)
2. [Announcements] Far Far Away - Book-launch and gifting (aarti)
3. Re: The Reservation of numbers (Shivam Vij)
4. News from the Daniel Langlois Foundation (CR+D)
5. Check out this blog (hpp at vsnl.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:20:35 +0530
From: aarti 
Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Open Mic/Open Screen
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Open Mic / Open Screen: An evening of Film, Video, Audio, Poetry, Spoken Word, Prose and Performance
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14th July 2006, Friday, 6:00 P.M.
Sarai Interface Zone
29 Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi - 110054

The 5th Sarai Open Mic, and the 1st in our new cycle of 2006 events, is
finally here! For those who have not attended them before, how it works
is, everyone gets 1 - 10 minutes to screen/play video/audio works, and
read/perform text based work. You can share video, audio,poetry, spoken
word, a short prose piece, a performance, singly or in groups, in any
language (though do be prepared to translate for those uninitiated :) The
screening/performance is decided on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Films, Video and Audio pieces should be between 1- 10 minutes long, and on
DVD/VCD/CD format only. Alternatively you can also pipe from a laptop. You
can share a complete work, parts of a work, a work in progress, even
stills, in B/W and or colour.

This time, while we will stay with our usual "bring-what-you-wish" ethic,
we also have a special one hour thematic feature on -

"Permament Address and Perpetual Motion: Dwelling In Delhi": what are the
ways in which we can think through inhabiting this city we call "home"?

Featured Performances/Screenings:

- Nangla Maachi Lab, Cybermohalla

- Aman Sethi: News of the World and Other Stories from Bara Tutti

- Umang Bhattacharya: Curious Green

- Anand V. Taneja: Letters to the Lord of the Djinns.

- Gautam Bhan, Nigah Media Collective

You can choose to address our theme for the evening, or not, and bring
whatever you wish. Do come, to participate and listen, tell your friends
and share an evening with us!

Write to aarti at sarai.net for further details.

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:50:32 +0530
From: aarti 
Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Far Far Away - Book-launch and
gifting
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Dear All,

This Friday we will be hosting the book release and gifting by a young 
artist from New Zealand, Marnie Slater. She runs a non-profit artist-run 
gallery and performance space and has been travelling in India for the 
last few months. She has brought out a set of sketches which she will be 
releasing this Friday.

Along with the launch, Marnie wishes to begin a discussion on the 
possibilities of independent and self-publishing, along with gifting a 
copy of her book in exchange for a copy of your own publication/s. It 
would be great if some of us who are in fact thinking through the 
possibilities and spaces for self-publishing in our own work could be 
there and contribute to the discussion. I'm enclosing below her concept 
note/blurb for the evening. Do pass this on to friends - those working 
with small books, catalogues, zines and broadsheets, designers etc - 
anyone whom you think would be interested.

Do try and make the time to come.
Hoping to see you there!
Warmly

Aarti

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Book-reading and discussion @ Sarai: "Far Far and Away"
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Far Far and Away: Book Reading and Discussion
Marnie Slater
6:00 P.M., Friday 7 July 2006, Interface Zone

What defines independent publishing? What are the conceptual possibilities
provided by the medium of text, image and graphic? What are the practical
avenues available to independent publishers? Self-publishing, whether it
be in a collective or individually, comes with its own particular
parameters and potential.

Marnie Slater combines the launch of her recent publication FAR, FAR AWAY
with an evening of conversation addressing some of the issues surrounding
independent publishing. You are invited to bring along your own book,
zine, magazine or catalogue and exchange them for a copy of FAR, FAR AWAY.
All exchanged material will go into the developing library of Enjoy Public
Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.

FAR, FAR AWAY is a collection of drawings made during Marnie's stay in
India. Concerned with the historic documentation and exchange of the
"exotic", FAR, FAR AWAY engages the book as a site of fiction, capable of
inhabiting multiple locations simultaneously.

(Marnie Slater is an artist, writer and curator based in Wellington, New
Zealand and is a current trust member of the artist run project space
Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Marnie has been living in Bombay for the last 5
months with the assistance of a Commonwealth Foundation Arts and Crafts
Award.)

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:11:27 +0530
From: "Shivam Vij" 
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Reservation of numbers
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Ah, Karan Thapar and his arguments!

I'll tell you how the 27% figure was arrived at. It was forced by the
hon'ble Supreme Court - the same hon'ble Supreme Court that now wants
to know from the Union of India how the 27% figure was arrived at!

The Mandal Commission used several statistics - most importantly, a
huge survey conducted by itself - to conclude that 52% per cent of
India's population (http://ncbc.nic.in/backward-classes/index.htm )
can be said to be "backward". What exactly is meant by backward? See
http://ncbc.nic.in/html/guideline.htm

The 1931 census was used to get an idea of the occupational sub-castes
- and NOT their populations.

Now, someone went to the Supreme Court on the issue of the "creamy
layer" cornering the benefits of reservations. Creamy layer has been
one argument against reservations, and that reserved seats lie vacant
is another. But if the creamy layer takes away all the seats, why do
seats lie vacant? That's just one of many contradictions in the
anti-quota arguments that Karan Thapar won't ask on prime time TV.

Anyway, so the hon'ble Supreme Court in the Indira Sahani judgement
said that the total number of reservations can't exceed 50% seats in
an institution - and institutions in the south have found innovative
ways of bypassing this, btw.

Already there was 22.5% reservation for SC/STs. So it was to keep the
total number of reserved seats within the 50% bracket that the
government decided to have 27% reservations for OBCs. But even that
could not be implemented in central educational institutions as VP
Singh's government fell.

Did someone say something about statistics being lies? Okay, never mind.

As for P. Chidambaram, he's finance minister and not the social
justice minister. His job is to know the sensex and inflation numbers.

As for Karan Thapar, his job is to get his facts right! From the same
interview that you quote from, some ROTFL stuff:

*

Karan Thapar: Mr Chidambaram you are sitting in front of me advocating
that reservations have improved the quality of education in Tamil
Nadu. The truth is that you yourself didn't go to an institution where
there is reservation for OBCs. You went to Loyala College where there
is no reservation for OBCs and then you went to Harvard. Your son went
to Don Bosco School, Texas University and Cambridge University.

P Chidambaram: You got your facts wrong. I went to Presidency College,
which has reservation.

Karan Thapar: For your MA at which point in time affiliation to
colleges were not important.

P Chidambaram: Your facts are wrong. I went to Presidency College for
my basic under graduate degree where there is reservation. I went to
Law College for my law degree where there is reservation. I am not a
beneficiary of reservation but I know that reservation brought in
students to my class would otherwise have never got in.

Karan Thapar: Mr Chidambaram your son went to Don Bosco School where
there is no reservation. Then he went to the University of Texas where
there is no reservation and then he went to Cambridge University.

P Chidambaram: My son would have never got the benefit of reservation anyway.

Karan Thapar: Did you not send your son abroad deliberately because
you knew that the standard of education in Tamil Nadu had collapsed.

P Chidambaram: No not at all. I am a beneficiary of the educational
system in Tamil Nadu and I am proud about the educational system in
Tamil Nadu. It can be better that is a different matter. Neither my
son nor I are the beneficiary of reservations.

*

What empirical data does Thapar offer to support his contention that
the quality of educational and the repute of an institution is
inversely proportional to the quantum of reservations? All that Thapar
knows about the Mandal report is from a speech by Rajiv Gandhi, who
was leader of the opposition. Has he read the Mandal Report? Does he
know about the National Commission of Backward Classes? Is anyone in
for an informed debate or will it remain the farce that it is, to be
decided on the terms of the meritorious doctors reading 'You Can Win'
under the shade of a
shamiana?

So which college did you go to, friends? That may have a lot of
bearing on this country's affirmative action policies.

Best,
s

-- 
www.shivamvij.com | www.theotherindia.org
mail at shivamvij dot com

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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:51:50 -0400
From: "CR+D" 
Subject: [Reader-list] News from the Daniel Langlois Foundation
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New recipients of financial support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology 

Strategic Grants for Organisations:

Through this program, the Foundation supports non-profit organisations in their strategic development projects. To learn more about the 2006 projects that have received support to date under the Strategic Grants for Organisations program:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Section=proj&amp;SousSection=pro&amp;TypeIco=col&amp;Annee=2006

Research and Experimentation Grants in Art+Science+Technology:

Under this program, the Foundation receives proposals from artists and researchers who work in areas targeted by the Foundation. Each year, the proposal deadline is January 31. To learn more about the projects by artists and researchers selected by the Foundation for 2006:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Section=proj&amp;SousSection=pro&amp;TypeIco=ind&amp;Annee=2006 

The program's guidelines are available on the Foundation's Web site:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=515

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:15:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: hpp at vsnl.com
Subject: [Reader-list] Check out this blog
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Dear Friends

http://cuckooscall.blogspot.com

Great blog, from Calcutta! Lovely pictures. Rivetting content, with a literary flavour.

Dr Mrinal Bose
Calcutta

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hello,

Reply: Quota reservations..

  Students who joins any college on the benifit of quota are not at all

upto the mark of general students..

what acctually happens is that,

those who joins college for 1st year under quota,fails to even pass the 1st year exams

and they eventually leave after first year,,leaving that seat vacent for the next years.

instutes have to provide special classes to quota students,to bring them at a level 

of general students..

Raman

delhi
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