[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 98, Issue 11
Arka Mukhopadhyay
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Wed Sep 7 15:35:03 IST 2011
is it still possible to perform at the workshop?
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> 1. Save the date: PROTEST WORKSHOP 2011/ Sept 14-17, 2011/ India
> (OISHIK SIRCAR)
> 2. Sept 12, 2011/ Jasbir Puar @CSLG, JNU/ LGBT Rights & the
> Israel Palestine Conflict (OISHIK SIRCAR)
> 3. New Delhi premier of BOM/ aka One Day Ahead of Democracy
> (Magic Lantern Foundation)
> 4. Culture Cafe: Film: The Salt Stories followed a Q&A with
> Director Lalit Vachani - 8th September Friday! Mumbai / SRFTI
> APPLICATION FORM FOR SHORT TERM COURSE ON ACTING FOR THE SCREEN
> (rohitrellan at aol.in)
> 5. Fwd: Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, Green Party
> leader & peace activist, after her returning from a Fact Finding
> Mission Libya, Tours US Cities to Tell the Truth About US-NATO
> Aggression in Libya (Venugopalan K M)
> 6. DECLARE R.K. NARAYAN'S HOUSE AS 'HERITAGE' MONUMENT: MCC
> (Vinay Baindur)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:12:31 +0530
> From: OISHIK SIRCAR <oishiksircar at gmail.com>
> To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Save the date: PROTEST WORKSHOP 2011/ Sept
> 14-17, 2011/ India
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> >>>Please circulate widely>>>
>
> HUMAN RIGHTS BEYOND THE LAW: POLITICS, PRACTICES, PERFORMANCES OF PROTEST
> September 14-17, 2011
>
> Venues:
> Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
> Alliance Francaise de Delhi
> Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi
>
> Speakers:
> Jasbir Puar/ Dianne Otto/ Rahul Rao/ B.S. Chimni/ Vinay Lal/ Bishakha
> Datta/ Lawrence Liang/ Ananda Breed/ Ashley Tellis/ Renu Addlakha/ Suroopa
> Mukherjee/ Saroj Giri/ Preethy Athreya/ Philip Vinod Peacock/ Shilpa
> Phadke/
> Anupama Roy/ Ileana Rodriguez/ Shail Mayaram and many more...
>
> Performances by:
> Zubin Mohamad/ Sumangala Damodaran/ Adi Dharm Samaj/ Parnab Mukherjee/
> Surjit Nongmeikapam
>
> Poetry Readings:
> N.D. Rajkumar/ Ashley Tellis/ Amartya Kanjilal/ Akshi Singh/ Shad Naved/
> M.R. Adithyan/ Sonya Gupta/ William Stafford
>
> Films:
> Mullaitivu Saga (S. Someetharan)/ Sthaniya Sambaad (Arjun Gourisaria and
> Moinak Biswas)/ Arrival (Mani Kaul - In Memoriam)
>
> Exhibitions:
> Faultlines, Freaks and Frenemies: Protest Art between Identity and Alterity
> (Curated by V.K. Suleiria/ Visual Ark)/ Unframed: A Minor Memorabilia
> Collection from the Damned (Curated by Parnab Mukherjee)
>
> ENTRY FREE FOR ALL EVENTS. PRIOR REGISTRATION NECESSARY.
>
> FIND FULL SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION DETAILS >>>
> WWW.PROTESTWORKSHOP.JGU.EDU.IN
>
>
> --
> OISHIK SIRCAR
>
> oishiksircar at gmail.com
> oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> OISHIK SIRCAR
>
> oishiksircar at gmail.com
> oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca
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>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:34:08 +0530
> From: OISHIK SIRCAR <oishiksircar at gmail.com>
> To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Sept 12, 2011/ Jasbir Puar @CSLG, JNU/ LGBT
> Rights & the Israel Palestine Conflict
> Message-ID:
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> The Collaborative Research Programme on Law,
> Postcoloniality and Culture (at the Jindal Global Law School)
> *&*
> LASSNet (anchored at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,
> Jawaharlal Nehru University)
>
> invite you to a talk by
>
> *PROF. JASBIR PUAR*
> Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA
> *author of TERRORIST ASSEMBLAGES: HOMONATIONALISM IN QUEER TIMES*
>
> on
>
> *THE PINKWASHING DEBATE: *
> *LGBT RIGHTS & THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT*
>
> *Commentator: *
> *PROF. NIVEDITA MENON*
> Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory
> Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
>
> Monday, September 12, 2011 | CSLG, JNU, Conference Room, 1st Floor | 3-5pm
> to be followed by tea and light snacks
>
> *HUMAN RIGHTS BEYOND THE LAW*
> *Politics | Practices | Performances of Protest*
> *14-17 September 2011*
>
> *PRE-WORKSHOP TALK*
>
>
> www.protestworkshop.jgu.edu.in |
> protestworkshop.india at jgu.edu.in<
> https://webmail.utoronto.ca/imp/message.php?index=5778#>
>
> --
> OISHIK SIRCAR
>
> oishiksircar at gmail.com
> oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> OISHIK SIRCAR
>
> oishiksircar at gmail.com
> oishik.sircar at utoronto.ca
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:03:06 +0530
> From: Magic Lantern Foundation <magiclantern.foundation at gmail.com>
> To: CACDelhi at yahoogroups.co.in, "Delhi Film Archive [DFA]"
> <delhifilmarchive at gmail.com>, sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Cc: vikalp at yahoogroups.com, Teteii Tochhawng <ltochhawng at gmail.com>,
> docuwallahs2 at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Reader-list] New Delhi premier of BOM/ aka One Day Ahead of
> Democracy
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> Dear friends,
> I write to invite you for the screening of BOM/ aka One Day Ahead of
> Democracy, the new film by Amlan Datta. Details below the signature.
> For those who don't know Amlan, he co-runs Animagineer, a production
> company with a difference, he is a FTII graduate and in his very short life
> as a filmmaker he has won the national award twice.
> This films took over 4 years in making.
> Please do come and also please do tell your friends in Delhi who might be
> interested to see or write about the film.
> warmly,
> Gargi Sen
>
> ---------
> Magic Lantern Foundation
> J 1881 Chittaranjan Park, Basement, New Delhi 110019
> P: +(91 11) 26273244/ 41605239
> E: magiclantern.foundation at gmail.com
> W: http://magiclanternfoundation.org | http://www.ucfilms.in |
> http://persistenceresistance.in
>
>
>
> PS: Apologies for cross posting
>
> India International Centre and Magic Lantern Foundation invite you to the
> New Delhi premier of
> ‘BOM’/ aka ‘One day ahead of Democracy’, 117 min, 2011
>
> Venue: India International Centre, Main Auditorium
> Date: 15 September 2011
> Time: 6:30 pm
> A moderated discussion with the director would follow the screening.
>
>
> BOM’/ aka ‘One day ahead of Democracy’, 117 min, 2011
> Directed by Amlan Datta
>
> Supported by Sundance DFP, Jan Vrijman Fund (IDFA)
> Co-produced with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp)
> www.aheadofdemocracy.com
>
>
> ‘Synopsis
>
> Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas, isolated from outside
> civilization for thousands of years has been fostering a divine existence in
> harmony with nature and a unique model of democracy of consensus. The hidden
> treasure of their governance has been trust and they have been selecting not
> electing!
>
> Blessed by Lord Shiva good quality cannabis plant grows in abundance there.
> In the seventies came some white men who taught them how to rub the crème
> and drew them into hashish trade. Malana crème became world famous.
>
> The rule of our modern day democracy has to be established, so Malana
> becomes a part of Indian electorate. In name of development the curse of
> modern world starts destroying their traditional culture and social
> practices. A united community gets divided and goes to vote for the Indian
> general elections.
>
> A visual essay from the edge of the world with a universal message of
> trust, peace and eternal unity, a real life story of transition; an ancient
> civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy, narrated
> in an epic structure.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:32:50 -0400
> From: rohitrellan at aol.in
> To: reader-list at sarai.net
> Cc: cinemalovers at googlegroups.com, cinemaloversmumbai at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Reader-list] Culture Cafe: Film: The Salt Stories followed a
> Q&A with Director Lalit Vachani - 8th September Friday! Mumbai /
> SRFTI
> APPLICATION FORM FOR SHORT TERM COURSE ON ACTING FOR THE SCREEN
> Message-ID: <8CE3B36B74E95AC-1238-415E2 at webmail-m102.sysops.aol.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>
>
>
> CULTURE CAFE
>
> CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES
>
> TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, MUMBAI
>
> invites you to
>
> A Film followed by a Q&A with the Director
>
> The Salt Stories by Lalit Vachani
>
> Date: 08 September 2011
>
> Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
>
> Location: Classroom IV, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social
> Sciences, Mumbai
>
> The Salt Stories
>
> (2008; Colour and B/W; Video; 84 min.)
>
> Director's cut and the longer version of `In Search of Gandhi [1]', THE
> SALT STORIES is a road movie documentary set in modern India that
> follows the trail of Mahatma Gandhi's salt march of 1930.
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
> In 1930, a group of Indians led by a frail, elderly man marched a
> distance of 241 miles. They marched for salt.
>
> Mahatma Gandhi was able to craft an anti-colonial, nationalist movement
> around the most basic issue of livelihood: the right of Indians to make
> and consume their own salt.
>
> 77 years later, the Wide Eye Film team followed the trail of the famous
> Dandi salt march, stopping at the same villages and towns, in search of
> Gandhi's legacy.
>
> Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's original journey, this is a
> road-movie about issues of livelihood in modern, globalizing India. It
> is a documentary about 'the salt stories' of our times.
>
> CREDITS
>
> Camera: Mrinal Desai
> Location sound and post-production audio: Anita Kushwaha
> Editing and additional camera: Lalit Vachani
> Additional editing: Menno Boerema
> Researched, produced and directed by Lalit Vachani
>
> A Wide Eye Film, 2008
>
> AWARDS:
>
> Best documentary film, MIAAC, New York city, 2009
> 2nd prize, Film South Asia, Kathmandu, 2009
>
> Bio:
> Lalit Vachani is director of the New Delhi based Wide Eye Film. He
> studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and at the Annenberg
> School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He was
> visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi
> (1990-92; 1996-98), at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at
> Amherst College(2009) and visiting scholar at the Center for Media,
> Culture and History at New York University in 1999.
>
> His previous documentary films have been on the star-system and the
> social worlds within the Bollywood film industry (The Academy, 1995;
> The
> Starmaker, 1997) and on the indoctrination, ideology and the politics
> of
> Hindutva propagated by the Hindu fundamentalist organization, the RSS
> (The Boy in the Branch, 1993; The Men in the Tree, 2002). In 2005 he
> directed, `Natak Jari Hai' (The Play Goes On) about Jana Natya Manch,
> the New Delhi based socialist street theatre group.
>
> In 2007, he directed `In Search of Gandhi' for the WHY DEMOCRACY?
> global TV documentary series, and the film was broadcast over 42
> international TV channels. The Directors cut of this film is `The Salt
> Stories' ( 2008), a road movie documentary that follows the trail of
> Gandhi's salt march in contemporary Gujarat.
>
> Vachani's most recent work `Tales from Napa' , is the story of a
> remarkable village that resisted the forces of Hindu fundamentalism
> during the Gujarat riots of 2002.
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.lalitvachani.com/film01.html
>
> --
> ___________________________________________
> Anjali Monteiro, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
> Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
> Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
> Deonar, Bombay 400 088, India
> Phone:+91 22 2552 5661 (Work)
> Fax: +91 22 25525050 e-mail: monteiro[AT]tiss.edu
> URL: www.cmcs.tiss.edu
> http://atwodayfair.wordpress.com/
> http://ourfamily2007.wordpress.com/
> http://naata.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
> __
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> SRFTI APPLICATION FORM FOR SHORT TERM COURSE ON ACTING FOR THE SCREEN
>
>
> For more details Log on to http://srfti.gov.in/acting_form.pdf
>
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>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:29:59 +0530
> From: Venugopalan K M <kmvenuannur at gmail.com>
> To: sarai-list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman,
> Green Party leader & peace activist, after her returning from a Fact
> Finding Mission Libya, Tours US Cities to Tell the Truth About
> US-NATO
> Aggression in Libya
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> Cynthia McKinney, former congresswoman, Green Party leader & peace
> activist,
> after her return from Libya on a fact finding mission says :
> "I'm making new friends in twenty cities across this country.
> .people want the truth..NATO is bombing a town which is very much like
> Baltimore..it is collective punishment, which is a war crime to the people
> of Libya as they do against the......... Palestinians.We counted 89 bombs
> by
> NATO falling in Tripoli alone, in the second night of the NATO
> engagement..We know that the government lie about the murders of Martin
> Luther King Jr and Malcolm X.. . This attack on Libya is a direct attack on
> all of us of African origin..Our President is committing war crimes and it
> makes him a war criminal!.."Earlier, the US government had been at war with
> its Black people, and now, it is waging war with every body of US.
> Stop the US war in Libya and elsewhere . Stop your wars and war crimes in
> collusion with NATO!
>
> She says to Obama:
> "If You Are a Recipient of Peace Prize, Make Peace in Home..Make Peace
> Abroad"
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2227609323474
> http://www.iacenter.org/
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up
> a
> nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
> foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
> -AMBEDKAR
>
>
>
> http://venukm.blogspot.com
>
> http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur
>
> http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:49:50 +0530
> From: Vinay Baindur <yanivbin at gmail.com>
> To: Urban Sarai <urbanstudygroup at sarai.net>, reader list
> <reader-list at sarai.net>, notes <notes at lists.maraa.in>, CAF2
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> Subject: [Reader-list] DECLARE R.K. NARAYAN'S HOUSE AS 'HERITAGE'
> MONUMENT: MCC
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> http://starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=29571
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>
> DECLARE R.K. NARAYAN'S HOUSE AS 'HERITAGE' MONUMENT: MCC
>
> *SOM effect: Demolition stayed*
>
> Mysore, Sept. 6 (KK&KMC)- The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has sought help
> from the Heritage Department and the Kannada & Culture Department to
> declare
> the house of legendary novelist R.K. Narayan in Yadavagiri here as a
> Heritage Monument, provide financial assistance for buying the house and
> take up measures for the building's conservation and development as a
> museum.
>
> It has also urged the Urban Development Department to introduce a Heritage
> Tax on all such properties with heritage value so that the MCC can identify
> and protect them.
>
> At a meeting of officials held at the MCC Commissioner’s office this
> morning, MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar said that the demolition had been
> stopped yesterday itself and a show-cause notice had been issued to MCC
> Assistant Commissioner Thimmappa for permitting to demolish the house.
>
> "There are many such assets in the city with heritage value that are in
> private ownership," he said and felt the need for resources to preserve
> them
> for posterity.
>
> "R.K. Narayan’s house has not yet been declared as a heritage monument," he
> said, adding that he had written to the Heritage Commissioner to officially
> demarcate such assets as "heritage" so that their sale or demolition can be
> checked by MCC. "If not, there is no provision in the law to prevent
> builders from buying and rebuilding on such properties," Raikar added.
>
> *Demolition stayed*
>
> Meanwhile, the MCC has stayed the demolition of the house where R.K.
> Narayan
> lived and penned his literary masterpieces for more than 20 years.
>
> The authorities concerned, reacting positively to the report published in
> Star of Mysore yesterday, halted the demolition work that had commenced
> yesterday morning. A builder who bought the House No. 15 on Vivekananda
> Road
> from R.K. Narayan's heirs — granddaughter Bhuvaneshwari aka Minni living in
> Chennai and grandson Srinivasa living in the US — intended to replace the
> two-storey house on a 120’x 80’ site with an eight-apartment building.
>
> The timely intervention of MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar — based on the
> report in SOM which served as an eye-opener — prevented the building from
> being fully demolished by the workers. Following his orders, Chowdegowda,
> Joint Director of the Town Planning Wing, MCC, visited the spot in the
> evening and directed the contractor to stop the demolition work till
> further
> orders. The contractor told the officials that necessary clearance and
> permission had been secured from the MCC. However, the officials directed
> him to withdraw his workers from the site till further orders.
>
> Raikar told SOM this morning that a report about the house and the proposal
> to conserve it as a heritage monument will be sent to the Heritage
> Department. "I will also speak to the Heritage Commissioner about the
> proposal. The heritage department is exclusively set up to deal with such
> cases. MCC cannot take the ultimate decision in this regard. Besides,
> resources have to be mobilised," he said.
>
> The engineers at the spot said even if the MCC had issued permission to
> demolish the house, it could be withdrawn and the building license issued
> to
> construct the apartment cancelled.
>
> Prof. K.C. Belliappa, former VC of Rajiv Gandhi University, Itana-gar and a
> resident of Mysore, who knew Narayan personally, opined that the house
> should be preserved and converted into a museum. "It should be seen as a
> slice of heritage and not as a piece of real estate," he said.
>
>
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