From dak at sarai.net Mon Dec 1 16:14:03 2008 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:14:03 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] December-2008 Message-ID: <4933BFF3.1020800@sarai.net> *Newsletter- December 2008 [[CONTENTS]] * *Film at Sarai* *68 Pages* *A Film by Sridhar Rangayan* *Curated by Sonal Mehta* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Talk at Sarai* *Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement* *by Bhagwan Das* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Call for submissions* *Typos in the Writing on the Wall* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Dear Readers, This month we continue with our talk series on dalit issues. This talk among others is an event planned in collaboration between The Sarai Programme and Navayana Publications. Other than that we have our regular film screening and a call for submission for a new project initiated by the Sarai Media Lab. Hope you will make yourselves available for the events and access the particulars announced. Best, Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Film at Sarai* *68 Pages** *Director: Sridhar Rangayan* *Length: 92 minutes* *Cast: Moulli Ganguly, Joy Sengupta, Jayati Bhatia, Zafar Karachiwala, Uday Sonawane, etc.* *Date: 5th December 2008* *Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS* *Time: 4:30 pm* About the Film: From the director of Gulabi Aaina and Yours Emotionally comes another hard hitting drama about marginalized people. Subverting the Bollywood film genre of song-dance and high drama, this film places characters ignored by Bollywood centerstage - a transsexual bar dancer, a prostitute, a gay couple - to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope, about being HIV+ and marginalized. A searingly honest film about five lives marked by pain and bound by hope - in 68 Pages of a counselor's diary. The film will be curated by Sonal Mehta, Director, Programme and Policy, Alliance India, a leading organization working with HIV and AIDS in the country. *68 Pages will be screened at various venues in India and the U.S. as part of World Aids Week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Talk at Sarai Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement by Bhagwan Das Date: 11th December 2008 Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS Time: 3:30 pm* Bhagwan Das, 81, worked as a research associate with Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1956. In the 1960s, two decades before the Maharashtra government began to publish the writings and speeches of Ambedkar, Das edited, compiled and produced the four-volume Thus Spoke Ambedkar series under the imprint of Bhimpatrika Publications, Jullunder. Born in Jutogh, Shimla, in 1927, Das joined Ambedkar's Scheduled Caste Federation at the age of 16. Working for the Royal Indian Air Force as a radio officer during World War II, he dreamt of becoming a pilot but could not muster the Rs 5,000 that was required for training in London. Das then worked in the Labour Department following a chance meeting with Ambedkar in Shimla in 1943 when the latter was Labour Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. After his marriage, Das resumed his education, did an MA in History from Punjab University and LLB from Delhi University. He then practised as an advocate in the Supreme Court. In 1970, he attended the World Conference on Religion for Peace held in Kyoto as a Buddhist delegate. In August 1983, supported by a coalition of dalit organisations, Bhagwan Das gave a testimony on untouchability before the UN subcommission on human rights in Geneva. He subsequently addressed the 1984 World Conference on Religion and Peace at Nairobi, Kenya, much against the wishes of the official Indian delegation at the conference. Das' first article appeared in Kranti, an Urdu newspaper from Lahore edited by Sant Ram of the Jat Pat Todak Mandal, in the 1940s. Das has since published in various journals including in the Economic and Political Weekly ("Moments in a History of Reservations", 28 Oct 2000). Some of Bhagwan Das' many books include: Ambedkar on Gandhi and Gandhism. (Ed.) Main Bhangi Hoon (Hindi) Untouchables in the Indian Army Mandal Commission and the Future of Backward Classes Ravidasis and Balmikis of North India Navayana is currently making a documentary film on this pioneering activist, publisher and scholar. A 15-minute excerpt from the film, where Das dwells on Ambedkar and Gandhi, will be screened ahead of Das' talk at Sarai. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Submission: for a new Media Lab Project Typos in the Writing on the Wall* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Last date for Edition #1: January 15, 2009* Sarai Media Lab announces an open call for submissions to "Typos in the Writing on the Wall", a forum for experimenting and freestyling with media forms. We invite participants to our online platform, beginning with Edition #1 of "Typos in the Writing on the Wall". There will be an open call every couple of months for subsequent editions, from which we will curate selections for exhibitions, local and traveling events, open mics and spontaneous collaborations. Meanwhile, we will upload selected entries on the Sarai website [http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1] and on our blog [http://typosforum.wordpress.com/]. Call for submissions: http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/call Submission guidelines: http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/submission-guidelines Further queries write to typos [at] sarai.net Contact: http://www.sarai.net/about-us/contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]] * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: