From dak at sarai.net Thu Apr 7 14:43:28 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:43:28 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] The Delhi Urban Platform: Made in Delhi : Post-1947 Cultural Institutions Message-ID: <4D9D8038.4070609@sarai.net> *The DelhiUrban Platform * /invites you to / *Made in Delhi : Post-1947 Cultural Institutions* http://delhiurbanplatform.org/2011/04/made-in-delhi-post-1947-cultural-institutions/* * _Speakers: _* * *Ashok Vajpeyi*, /Hindi poet, critic, cultural administrator; Currently, Chairman,Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi/* * *Kaushik Bhaumik*, /Historian and //Senior Vice-President//, //The Film House, Osian's/* * *Vidya Shivadas*, /Art Historian and Curator, Vadhera Gallery, Delhi/ *Ravi Vasudevan*, /Film Historian,//CSDS/SARAI, /Chair & Discussant Date : 13th April, 2011 Time :4:30-6:30 pm Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, New Delhi This panel will interrogate an important aspect of Delhi's identity as a hosting site for a national imaginary about culture as it emerges, post-1947, via the realms of policy pertaining to language/literature, the arts, media and higher education. Arguably, these domains were key to the articulation of an official vision through which the divergent logics of democracy, development and regional interests could be reconciled into manageable equations within the national-federal space. And yet for all its centrality within the Nehruvian imagination, the making of cultural policy has proceeded without significant debate, in largely 'commonsensical', un-reflexive ways, while the field has remained somewhat stigmatized within the social sciences and the newer inter-disciplinary fields. Seeking to move away from a facile view of policy as 'mere' application, this discussion will focus on the ways in which Delhi's urban identity as a modern city has lent itself or, in turn, has been derived from its historic role as a space of mediation over key cultural and political issues. An enduring part of Delhi's legacy to the nation, the making of cultural policy and its institutional elaboration in/via the national capital defined categories and mechanisms through which social hierarchies and regional differences were negotiated and linked to structures of patronage that would impinge on cultural and intellectual production. The location of these processes in Delhi has thus resonated profoundly in spaces far beyond the capital's city limits. Highlighting the elemental links between cultural policy interventions and the making of institutional cultures in the decades after 1947, or their remaking, both, post-Emergency and after liberalisation, our panelists will thus seek to explore possible continuities between the rationale and rhetoric of key policy junctures/documents/ statements, institutional forms and ongoing processes of democratization and marginalization /Conceptualised by //*Veena Naregal*//, IEG / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Sat Apr 16 15:51:34 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:51:34 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] The Identity Project: UID and more Message-ID: <2086c4d4b90f53ff6250b9a930e2bebc@mail.sarai.net> THE IDENTITY PROJECT: UID and more Date: Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 Location, CSDS, Library Time: 4 pm Over the past three years, the Government of India has initiated several projects that broadly attempt what we may call a technologisation of citizen identity. While the Unique Identity Project is the best known of these, it is intended to work in synergy with a number of other initiatives that attempt to use digital identification as a key means for the delivery of State benefits to their intended recipients. Several of these initiatives have been received with widespread concern. The Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (CSCS)Bangalore, has sought to extend this concern into a specific set of research areas. CSCS proposes that the issue of identity needs to be viewed at the cusp of three phenomena that have arisen over the past decade: * The rise of several major Centrally Sponsored Schemes with which the Government of India presently distributes welfare to its citizens. As per the 11 Plan, the sum total of CSS support extended by the Government of India to different States under the Article 282 of the Constitution to attain ‘national goals and objectives’ – including access to clean drinking water and sanitation to every habitation, eradicating polio and tuberculosis, making primary education universal for every female and male child etc. – were around 99 schemes operated by 27 central ministries and departments with a total outlay of around Rs. 82,000 crore. * The rise of a new set of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, exemplified by the Rights to Information, Education and Food, some of which need to be distinguished in their very nature from Civil or Political Rights * The rise of new technologies claiming to deliver Government programmes in ways most suited to their purpose, but also claiming to adhere to the requirements of new social rights. Is this a feasible project? What would it take for such a project to work in India at all? The CSCS Identity Project will present its initial field findings, which include intensive field visits to Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. They will be joined by a larger panel of respondents: Ravi Sundaram, Aditya Nigam and others -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message_1.txt URL: