From dak at sarai.net Fri Apr 6 19:23:56 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:53:56 +0200 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] APRIL 2007 Message-ID: From dak at sarai.net Thu Apr 12 10:54:08 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:24:08 +0200 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Film@Sarai: Faecal Attraction, by Pradip Saha Message-ID: ============================================ Delhi Dialogues Film and Public Discussion @ Sarai: Faecal Attraction ============================================ Faecal Attraction (Parts I & II) 5:30 P.M., Friday, 13 March 2007 Seminar Hall, Sarai-CSDS (In collaboration with the Centre for Science and Environment) Part 1 : Political Economy of Defecation A Film by Pradip Saha, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi 32 minutes. 2007. All rivers in India look like sewage canals, if they carry any liquid at all! The stretches by the cities are worst. And urban middle class is bothered about the lost beauty of their rivers.City fathers either evict poor people living in 'illegal' shanties by the river, or they build expensive sewage treatment plants.But the rivers are no cleaner than before. We actually do not know how much sewage is generated, and whole city is not connected to the sewage network, and there is not enough electricity to run these treatment plants. The state responds to rich peoples' water and sanitation demand. Poor people get very little water, mostly unsafe water, pay more for it. Poor do not get sanitation cover, and pay heavy price in terms of water-borne diseases.The video shows the relationship between rich man's shit and poor man's water. And it is funny. Part II: Clean Up Your Act A Film by Pradip Saha, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi 43 minutes. 2007 The electro-mechanical urban sewage management, with miles of pipes and hundreds of pumps have failed. But there is no reason to be depressed.Our ignorance about the sanitation science makes us feel powerless. And if our priority is sanitation, not cosmetic surgery on rivers, or dole to contractors, then we should move towards decentralized, individual house, or neighbourhood level waste management systems. The video travels through Pune, Agra, Delhi, Ujjain, Indore and Pondicherry, to showcase a host of systems that have been improvised over traditional septic tank soak pit. These are not just "beautiful ideas", an euphemism for killing any low cost affordable technology, but being practiced by courageous citizens. In fact, there are cheaper, sure-shot ways of cleaning polluted water bodies like rivers and lakes. There should be an immediate freeze on wasting any more money in the name of sewage management system. After all, cheaper systems will not force citizens of India to be indebted to multilateral banks and financial institutes. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Pradip Saha and a team of researchers from CSE who work on urban water, sewage and sanitation - S V Suresh Babu, R K Srini, Bharat Seth and Bidisha Kumar. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From dak at sarai.net Thu Apr 12 11:54:59 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:24:59 +0200 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Date Correction: Film@Sarai: Fecal Attraction by Pradip Saha Message-ID: Correction for Date of Film at Sarai The Date for the Screening and Discussion of Fecal Attraction by Pradip Saha at Sarai-CSDS is not the 13th of March, (as was wrongly mentioned in the previous announcement) but the 13th of April (TOMORROW) at 5:30 pm Apologies for this error. From dak at sarai.net Thu Apr 19 01:17:31 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:47:31 +0200 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Applications Invited for the post of Programme Co-Ordinator at Sarai-CSDS Message-ID: <9e2cb296cbf3e4164d8826d57a566e65@sarai.net> The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Invites application for the post of Programme Coordinator Sarai, an interdisciplinary research and practice programme on the city and media, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, invites applications for a Programme Co-Ordinator. The Programme Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating and administering research projects, programmes, conferences and other institutional activities. In addition, the incumbent would also be responsible for liaison work with grant-making / research collaborators and the Sarai research network comprising individuals and institutions in India and abroad. The position requires administrative competence, ease and familiarity with computers, e-mail and the internet, ability to administer and create newsletters and edit web content. We are looking for someone who welcomes the challenge of independence of thought and autonomy in decision making in a work culture that also places a premium on collective functioning & team effort. Candidates should possess a masters degree in a social science discipline with a minimum of three years of relevant work experience in administration/research/coordination of research related activities in educational/research institutions and/or NGOs. Send your application along with a one page statment indicating the nature of your interests and background and an updated C.V. to: Ashish Mahajan Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 29,Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054. ph: 23830065, 23983352 and 23928391. Last Date for applications: 15th of May, 2007. Selected candidates will be invited for an interview. For more details about Sarai please visit our website - www.sarai.net From dak at sarai.net Thu Apr 26 13:28:35 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:28:35 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Friday Seminar Reminder: Capital and its Geneology Message-ID: <50048.59.176.115.235.1177574316.squirrel@mail.sarai.net> Genealogies of Globalization: Unpacking the Universal History of Capital Aditya Nigam, Fellow, CSDS 27th April, Friday, 3:00 pm at the Seminar Hall, CSDS The presentation is part of an ongoing research and is a preliminary attempt to revisit the history of capital and capitalism with a view to unravelling its supposedly universal character and so-called historical inevitability. The investigation suggests that notwithstanding the neo-liberal triumphalism of the last few decades, capitalism and bourgeois property have simply not managed to colonize most of the world. Aditya Nigam is Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He is interested in issues of nationalism and identity and more generally in modernity and notions of radical politics. He is the author of Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India (2006), and co-author with Nivedita Menon, of Power and Contestation: India Since 1990, forthcoming from Zed Books under their "Global History of the Present Series". Aditya Nigam has also written extensively in Hindi and Bengali, and is one of the initiators of Kafila.org a collaborative blog on politics, culture and society.