From dak at sarai.net Thu Aug 3 15:45:27 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:15:27 +0200 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] AUGUST 2006 Message-ID: <4f7b330be4ee0e92c207e90555a7bd68@sarai.net> ******************************************************************** **************** SARAI NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2006*********************** ******************************************************************** Dear All, This August we feature Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes On) - Lalit Vachani's new film, a discussion with Biwarup Sen on his collection of essays on popular culture, the Sarai Reader 06 book launch and the independent fellowships final presentations. We hope many of you will be able to make your way to Sarai and share an evening with us! Warmly Aarti ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[CONTENTS]] EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS 1. Seminars @ Sarai: Of The People, Biswarup Sen 2. Sarai Independent Fellowship Final Presentations/Workshop 3. Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence - Book Launch and Discussion 4. Monsoon Musings Read-Meet: Caferati Delhi + Sarai-CSDS FILM SCREENINGS & DISCUSSIONS 5. Film @ Sarai: Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes On), Lalit Vachani CONVERSATIONS 6. There Has Been A Change of Plan: Raqs Media Collective ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS]] =========================================================== Seminar @ Sarai: Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar Series =========================================================== Of the People: Essays on Indian Popular Culture A Presentation by and Discussion with Biswarup Sen 4:00 P.M., Thursday, 8 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room Why is all of India so obessed with cricket and what are the reasons for the fall of hockey and the decline of football? What explains the continuing convention of singing and dancing in Hindi films? Following the growth of cable televison, the rise of new technologies and the emergence of a culture of consumption; the products of contemporary culture have come to play an increasingly important role in shaping social practices. This set of essays seeks to answer the above and other questions to argue that popular culture needs to be invoked as a serious investigation and reflection if we are to make sense of the contemporary and India's place in it. (Biswarup Sen received his doctorate in Communication from the University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign. He taught for several years at the Department of English, SUNY-Binghampton. He has worked as a marketing and communications consultant in both corporate and non-profit sectors. He currently teaches courses in mass communications and popular culture at the University of Oregon.) ================================= Independent Fellowships Programme ================================= Independent Fellowships Programme Final Presentations 24, 25, 26, 27 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room The Sarai Independent Research Fellowship Process for 2005-2006 will have its public presentation at Sarai-CSDS between the 24th and 27th of August. Fellows from all over India, and drawn from a variety of practices and disciplines will present and discuss their work. This years presentations, like the ones of previous years promise to offer a host of innovative research and presentation strategies.Themes discussed will include Urban Forms, Publics, The Street, Migration, Music, Queer Politics, Comic Books/Graphic Novels, Labour and Work, among others. All are welcome to attend and participate in the discussions. A detailed programme will be made available soon on the list. To see the complete list of fellowship abstracts and previous years proposals, visit: ============================ Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence ============================ SARAI READER 06: TURBULENCE Book launch and Discussion 6:00 P.M., 26 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room The 6th Sarai Reader : Turbulence will be formally released to the public on the 26th of August at 6:00 pm at the seminar room at Sarai CSDS. Sarai Reader 06 uses 'Turbulence' as a conceptual vantage point from which to interrogate all that is in the throes of terminal crisis, and to invoke all that is as yet unborn. It seek to examine 'turbulence' as a global phenomenon, unbounded by the arbitrary lines that denote national and state boundaries in a 'political' map of the world. It wants to see areas of low and high pressure in politics, economy and culture that transcend borders, to investigate the flow of information and processes between downstream and upstream sites in societies and cultures globally'. At an early stage in its gestation this year, the Sarai Reader was invited to participate in a community of publications - a project called 'the documenta 12 magazines' Documenta 12 Magazines is a process and a discursive community that brings together more than 80 print and online periodicals throughout the world. "These journals and magazines will discuss the main themes and theories behind documenta 12 with particular emphasis being placed on reflecting the interests and specific knowledge of the respective local contexts entering into a dialogue with documenta 12. These debates will be compiled and published in a series of publications. This 'journal of journals', so to speak, will represent a forum for the contemporary aesthetic discourse. This platform will in turn also form part of the documenta 12 exhibition in Kassel." This year, Documenta 12 Magazines addresses the issue of 'Modernity?'. Sarai Reader 06 interprets this issue with an emphasis on the question mark that follows the abstract noun of this marker of temporality. We see our time, the one that sits in on Modernity's wake, as an opportunity for interrogation and questioning, for admitting to radical uncertainties, and looking askance at the claims of truth and beauty. We are happy that this Sarai Reader marks a diffuse, dispersed engagement with discourses in contemporary art, by featuring a large number of contributions by artists, curators and critics, and by paying a degree of focused attention on the perils of practice in contemporary art and literature. Watch this space for a detailed announcement and table of contents of the Sarai Reader 06, as well as links to pdf downloads. =========================== Monsoon Musings: Read-Meet =========================== Caferati Delhi chapter & Sarai presents Monsoon Musings - the Caferati Read-Meet 5:00 P.M., Saturday, 12 August 2006 Interface Zone, Sarai It seems like its going to be a big one this month. (No drizzles!) In new and interesting environs, Caferati Delhi meets at Sarai-CSDS. We hope to have many more writers join in so drive, take a bus, take the metro -here's looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible. Share your original writing in English with the group. What you can read: Fiction, poetry, essays, scripts, screen scenarios - anything that can be read aloud - in English, and within the time limits set - we usually do 8 to 10 minutes per person. We will have quick critiques by other members as usual. Work in other languages may be permitted, at the discretion of the moderator, but must be accompanied by an English translation. Priority will be given to new voices. We also invite Caferati members from other cities to mail in work that can be read for them by someone present, but only if time permits. Those present always get top priority. Do specify if you are going to read and the length of your piece, so we can schedule the evening accordingly. You can mail these details to: anita.vasudeva at gmail dot com, or Danish at dan.husain at gmail.com , or Annie at zaidiannie at gmail.com It would be nice if you could confirm your attendance to the moderator beforehand. (If you haven't done so already, please join Caferati's Delhi googlegroup to keep track of this and future events. If you'd like to know what a read-meet is all about, please read this.) The Caferati Delhi newsgroup: http://groups.google.com/group/Caferati-Delhi The FAQs: http:www.caferati.com/FAQs.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[FILM]] Natak Jari Hai A film by Lalit Vachani (India; 2005; Colour & B/W; 84 min.) 5:00 P.M, Monday, 21 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room What does it mean to perform socialist ‘agit-prop’ theatre in India in a globalized era of increasing intolerance and inequality? Natak Jari Hai is a documentary about JANAM (The People’s Theatre Front), the little theatre group that never stopped performing in the face of dramatic political transformation and personal tragedy. The film explores the motivations and ideals of the JANAM actors and their vision of resistance and change as they perform their ‘People’s Theatre’ in diverse parts of India. It brings to life the world of socialist theatre through the words of JANAM’s members, and through a reflective portrayal of the group’s greatest tragedy - the assassination of its convenor Safdar Hashmi in 1989. Credits: Camera: Mrinal Desai Sound: Asheesh Pandya Additional editing: Sameera Jain Editing, additional camera, production and direction: Lalit Vachani A Wide Eye Film, 2005 We invite you to a screening for Natak Jari Hai, Lalit Vachani's new film. Lalit will be present for a discussion with the audience after the film. (Lalit Vachani is a documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi and New York city. His previous documentary films include work on the star- system and social worlds within the Hindi commercial 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). Some of the venues where his work has been screened are: The Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany, IDFA Amsterdam, One World Prague, FID Marseille, The Queens Museum of Art in New York, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and the World Social Forum in Mumbai.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[CONVERSATIONS]] ========================================== Raqs Media Collective : 'There Has Been a Change of Plan' (Selected Works 2002-2006) Nature Morte Gallery, A 1 Neeti Bagh, New Delhi August 5 - 26, 2006 ================================================ Sometimes, adjustments have to be made. Schedules need calibration. There are contingencies, questions, obstinate demands, weak excuses, strong desires. You return to the city you never left. You pause, take stock. Sit still and let a conversation begin. Maybe? Around you, aeroplanes sit on wooden platforms in a wilderness like widows on a funeral pyre. Clocks measure fatigue, anxiety and modest epiphanies across latitudes. A door to nowhere stands obstinately against the sky. All your cities are a blur. "Do you like looking at maps?" Meanwhile, measures are taken, shoes lost and found, ghost stories gather, the city whispers conspiracies to itself, the situation is tense but under control. Someone offers you a postcard. Now: Let's see what happens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Raqs Media Collective is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition in Delhi - 'There Has Been A Change of Plan' at Nature Morte Gallery. The exhibition features selected works (2002 - 2006) in the form of cross media installations with networked computers, objects, postcards, video, sound, prints and projections. Works exhibited include: 'Lost New Shoes', selections from 'A Measure of Anacoustic Reason', 'Location (n)', '28.28 N / 77.15 E :: 2001/02 (Co-Ordinates of Everyday Life, Delhi 2001-2002)', 'Erosion by Whispers', 'Preface to a Ghost Story' and 'There Has Been a Change of Plan'. (See Details in PDF attatchment with this mail) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Raqs Media Collective www.raqsmediacollective.net (Excerpt from the Wikipedia Entry on Raqs Media Collective - www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqs_Media_Collective) Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Based in Delhi, their work engages with urban spaces and global circuits, persistently welding a sharp, edgily contemporary sense of what it means to lay claim to the world from the streets of Delhi. At the same time, Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with myths and histories of diverse provenances. Raqs sees its work as opening out a series of investigations with image, sound, software, objects, performance, print, text and lately, curation, that straddle different (and changing) affective and aesthetic registers, expressing an imaginative unpacking of questions of identity and location, a deep ambivalence towards modernity and a quiet but consistent critique of the operations of power and property. In 2001 Raqs co-founded Sarai (www.sarai.net) at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi where they coordinate media productions, pursue and administer independent research and practice projects and also work as members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series. For Raqs, Sarai is a space where they have the freedom to pursue interdisciplinary and hybrid contexts for creative work and to develop a sustained engagement with urban space and with different forms of media. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ END OF NEWSLETTER -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Wed Aug 16 17:27:59 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:27:59 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] August Films @ Sarai Message-ID: <8C88DB82-667F-484D-B441-D00DEE0F36DD@sarai.net> Dear All, A quick reminder that next week we will be screening two films, with post-screening discussions with the directors. The first, Lalit Vachani's new documentary on JANAM (The People's Theater Front), "Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes On)", followed by Sridhar Rangayan's feature film on queer love in South-Asia,"Yours Emotionally!". We hope many friends will make their way to Sarai :) Warmly Aarti ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ Natak Jari Hai A film by Lalit Vachani (India; 2005; Colour & B/W; 84 min.) 6:00 P.M, Monday, 21 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room What does it mean to perform socialist ‘agit-prop’ theatre in India in a globalized era of increasing intolerance and inequality? Natak Jari Hai is a documentary about JANAM (The People’s Theatre Front), the little theatre group that never stopped performing in the face of dramatic political transformation and personal tragedy. The film explores the motivations and ideals of the JANAM actors and their vision of resistance and change as they perform their ‘People’s Theatre’ in diverse parts of India. It brings to life the world of socialist theatre through the words of JANAM’s members, and through a reflective portrayal of the group’s greatest tragedy - the assassination of its convenor Safdar Hashmi in 1989. Credits: Camera: Mrinal Desai Sound: Asheesh Pandya Additional editing: Sameera Jain Editing, additional camera, production and direction: Lalit Vachani A Wide Eye Film, 2005 We invite you to a screening of Natak Jari Hai, Lalit Vachani's new film. Lalit will be present for a discussion with the audience after the film. [Lalit Vachani is a documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi and New York city. His previous documentary films include work on the star- system and social worlds within the Hindi commercial 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). Some of the venues where his work has been screened are: The Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany, IDFA Amsterdam, One World Prague, FID Marseille, The Queens Museum of Art in New York, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and the World Social Forum in Mumbai.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ Sarai-CSDS and the Nigah Media Collective invite you to a screening of Yours Emotionally! A film by Sridhar Rangayan (86 min.; English, UK / India, 2005) 6:30 P.M., Wednesday, 23 August 2006 Sarai-CSDS Seminar Room "From the director of 'The Pink Mirror' comes this intoxicating queer journey through India… With a consistently surreal look, Yours Emotionally feels like a beautiful fever dream inspired by both avant- garde gay cinema and the tropes of Bollywood." – Frameline Review ‘Yours Emotionally’ is a tribute to South Asian gay men who negotiate their same-sex-love identities within the stringent social, religious, cultural boundaries imposed by their communities. A trans- cultural drama spiced with love, romance & passions. 'Yours Emotionally!' follows Ravi, a gay British-Punjabi and his friend Paul on their visit to Shimoga. During their sojourn over a week in this idyllic town, they get a taste of gay life and its nuances there - finding a mixture of moribund traditions and shocking openness. Ravi falls in love passionately with a local lad Mani who is set to be married very soon to a girl. Ravi who cannot reconcile this, seeks the wisdom of an elderly gay couple Murthy and Anna who make him understand how sexuality operates within the closeted Indian community. Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations - presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally! unfolds a brightly painted canvas that defies stereotypes and explores contrasting values within Indian and Western gay sub-cultures. Gautam Bhan (Nigah Media Collective), will moderate the post- screening discussion with the director. Credits: Director: Sridhar Rangayan Produced by: Niranjan Kamatkar, Wise Thoughts, London Co-produced by: Solaris Pictures, Mumbai Executive Producer & Art Director: Saagar Gupta Script: Niranjan Kamatkar & Sridhar Rangayan Camera : Deepak Pandey Editor : Nishant Radhakrishnan [Sridhar Rangayan has written and directed award winning films like 'Chakkad Bakkad Bumbe Bo' - a children film that won the Bronze Remi at WorldFest, Houston and 'The Pink Mirror (Gulabi Aaina)' - a film on drag queens that has screened at 56 international film festivals and won Best Film of the Festival awards in New York and France. He has also directed over 100 hours of television with programs like Pyar Ki Kashti Mein (Star One), Krisshna Arjun (Star Plus), Kagaar (Sahara) and Rishtey, Gubbare (Zee TV) to his credit. He won the RAPA award twice in 1999 and 2000 for Best Telefilm. ] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Tue Aug 22 14:31:21 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:31:21 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellows Workshop 2006 Message-ID: <5C2C995C-B432-450A-BD36-A0E28092DDEE@sarai.net> Dear All, Find below the schedule for the Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellows Workshop 2006. You can explore the interim research postings, updates and individual blogs of Sarai research fellows since January 2006 via a consolidated blog ( which is still being still updated) at: http:// ifellows2006.wordpress.com. For details of individual fellowships, including project abstracts, visit: http://www.sarai.net/community/ fellow.htm All are welcome and we hope to see you there! Warmly Aarti ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellows Workshop 2006 24-27 August 2006 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054 Thursday 24 August 9.00-9.30 Tea 9.30-10.00 Opening Statements: Vivek Narayanan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta 10.00–11.30 Microcosmic Views - 1 Chair: Shuddhabrata Sengupta Dilip D'Souza, Mumbai Village in the City: Bombay in Microcosm Abhinandita Mathur and Venu Mathur, New Delhi My Building and the Shahar Mamta Mantri, Mumbai Movie Theatres on and around Maulana Shaukat Ali Road, Mumbai 11.30-11.45 Refreshment Break 11.45-12.45 The Return of the Region Chair: Ravikant Daljit Ami, Chandigarh Celluloid and Compact Disks in Punjab Anil Pandey, NOIDA Desi Filmon ka Karobar (The Business of Desi Films) 12.45-1.45 Lunch 1.45-3.15 Microcosmic Views - 2 Chair: Monica Narula Parismita Singh, New Delhi “6 O’Clock” – A Series of Comic Book Stories Janice Erica Pariat, New Delhi Writing the Notion of Home and Urban Space Nandita Raman Dilli ke Cinemagharon ka Badalta Swaroop: Ek Chhayachitran (The Changing Face of Delhi’s Cinema Halls) 3.15-3.30 Refreshment Break 3.30-5.30 Lost and Re-imagined Lifeworlds Chair: Sarada Balagopalan Debjani Sengupta, New Delhi Colony Fiction: Refugee Colonies and Their Representation in Post-Partition Kolkata Uddipana Goswami, Guwahati City as Setting: Reflections of the Changing Faces of Guwahati in Assamese Literature Maitrey Bajpai, Mumbai Cawnpore 5.45-7.30 Audible Traditions / Listening Lounge Chair: Mahmood Farooqui Brajesh Kumar Jha, Delhi Hindi Cinemayee Geet aur Uska Bhashayee Safar (The Language Journeys of Hindi Cinema) Naresh Kumar, New Delhi Festival of Music in the City of Sports: Harballabh Sangeet Mela of Jalandhar Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kolkata Story of a Forgotten Melody: Restoring the Sound of Bishnupur Gharana Friday 25 August 10.00-11.00 The Telephone and the Mobile Phone Chair: Lokesh Girindra, New Delhi Pravasi Ilaqe mein Telephone Booth Sanskriti (The Culture of Telephone Booths in Migrant Communities) Rama Rao, Bhopal Ladkiyon ke College ka Sarvajanik Telephone aur Ab Har Hath mein Mobile (Then and Now: The Public telephone in Girls’ Colleges and the Mobile Phone) 11.00-11.15 Refreshment break 11.15-12.45 Non-Metropolitan Trajectories Chair: Sadan Jha Prabhat Kumar, Delhi Yuvak Sangh aur Yuvak: 1920 ke Dashak mein Bihar ka Bauddhik Parivesh (Yuvak Sangh and the Yuvak Magazine in the Intellectual Public Sphere in 1920s Bihar) Rinchin, Bhopal Tracing the History of Girls' Education in a Small Town through the Eyes of Its First Woman Teacher Mrityunjay Tripathi, Allahabad Allahabad ki Chhatra Rajniti(Student Politics in Allahabad) 12.45-1.45 Lunch 1.45-3.15 Local Strategies, Regimes and Ramifications Chair: Shivam Vij Rakshat Hooja, Jaipur Urban Stakeholder Activism and the Role of Resident Welfare Associations Aamit Rai, Wardha Harsud aur Media (Harsud and the Media) Tushar Bhor, Mumbai Water Lenses: Prelude for a New Imagination for Urban Water in Mumbai 3.15-3.30 Refreshment Break 3.30-5.00 Subjective Sexualities Chair: Aarti Sethi Akshay Khanna, Delhi Apni Jagah, Zarah Hut Ke: A “Staged Ethnography” of Space and Sexuality Sheba Tejani, Mumbai Queer Cityscapes: Exploring Mumbai Cityscapes through the Eyes of Two Queer Women Sidharth Srinivasan, Delhi A Photoroman Feature Film: A Love Story Intertwined with the Myth and Folklore of Delhi's Heritage Sites 5.15-6.15 Play Reading / Performance Chair: Shuddhabrata Sengupta Averee Chaurey, Delhi “The Song of the Baul” Saturday 26 August 10.00-11.30 Generic Journeys Chair: Ravikant Kamal Kumar Mishra, New Delhi Hindi Hridaysthali mein Jasoosi Upanyason va Inkey Paathakon ka Ek Samajik Itihas (A Social History of Detective Novels and Their Readers in the Hindi Heartland) Piyush Pandey, Delhi News Channelon ka Satyakathakaran (The ‘Satyakatharization’ of News Channels/On the Compulsive Crime Reporting on TV) Indu Verma, Mumbai Society and the Soap Factory 11.30-11.45 Refreshment Break 11.45-1.15 Creative Genealogies Chair: Lawrence Liang Dripta Piplai, Delhi The Hegemony of Calcutta Music Schools in Tagore Songs: Towards an Archival Preservation of 'Multiple Traditions in Rabindrasangeet' Rajesh Mehar, Bangalore Exploring Notions of Creative Ownership Among Contemporary Musicians Rudradeep Bhattacharjee, Mumbai Freedom in Cyberspace in the Context of India: A Video Documentary 1.15-2.15 Lunch 2.15-3.15 Ambiguous and Emergent Transitions Chair: Ravi Sundaram Sudipta Paul, Asansol Response of the Labour Force to the Changing Urban Formation in the Asansol Industrial Area, West Bengal Kaushiki Rao, New Delhi Transplanting the Urban Aesthetic in a Resettlement Colony in Delhi 3.15-3.30 Refreshment Break 3.30-5.00 The City and Its Discontents Chair: Smriti Vohra Syed Mohd. Yunus and Syed Mohd Faisal, Delhi Asahay Mahanagar: Helpline Karyakartaon ke Nazariye Se Dilli Shahar ka Adhyayan(Helpless City: A Study of Delhi from the Perspective of Helpline Workers) Peerzada Arshad Hamid, Anantnag Exploring the Space of Psychiatric Hospitals in Srinagar Udaykumar M, Delhi Unravelling a 'Real' Media Incident in Trivandrum 5.00-10.00 Launch of Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence / Dinner Sunday 27 August 10.30-12.30 The “Foreigners” and the “Locals” Chair: Iram Ghufran Farhana Ibrahim, Gurgaon Maritime Histories: Merchant Networks and the Production of Locality in Western India Ayesha Sen Choudhury, Kolkata Locating Sexuality through the Eyes of Afghan and Burmese Refugee Women in Delhi John Patrick Ojwando, Bangalore An Exploration of the Experiences of Afro Students in South Asia Mallica, New Delhi Identities and Aspirations of Tibetan Youth in New Delhi 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-3.00 The Endurance of Print Chair: Rakesh Singh Arshad Amanullah, New Delhi Journalism in Madrasas and Madrasas in Journalism Ram Murthi Sharma, Una, Himachal Pradesh An Analysis of Magazines in Braille Izhar Ahmed Nadeem, Delhi Muslim Mahilaon ki Urdu Patrikayo ki Duniya(Urdu Women's Magazines: Their Impact on Muslim Women) 3.00-3.15 Refreshment Break 3.15-4.45 In Search of Form - 1 Chair: Vivek Narayanan Rajesh Kumar K, Trivandrum An Ethnography of Teyyam Performance from a Practitioner’s Point of View Aman Sethi, Delhi Seeking Alternative Ways and Means of Representing “the Poor and the Oppressed” by Studying Informal Networks at Labour Mandis in Delhi Rahul Pandita, Delhi Byte Soldier: The Life and Times of a Metro TV Reporter/A Graphic Novel in Hindi 4.45-5.00 Refreshment Break 5.00-6.30 In Search of Form - 2 Chair: Priya Sen Nirupama Sekhar and Sanjay Ramchandran, Mumbai Urban Stories: A Collection of Graphic Essays on the City of Mumbai Lakshmi IndraSimhan and Jacob Weinstein, New Delhi Vending as Vernacular: Depicting Street Sales and Services through Sequential Art Anjali Jyoti, New Delhi Home Street Home: A Street Child Survival Guide for Delhi 6.30-7.30 Closing Statements / Feedback Session