From aarti at sarai.net Thu Feb 1 04:19:32 2007 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti Sethi) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 04:19:32 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Film @ Sarai: "Rabindranath Tagore": Directed by Satyajit Ray, introduced by Ramin Jehanbegloo Message-ID: [[FILM]] ===================================== Film @ Sarai: February – March 2007 ===================================== Rabindranath Tagore Satyajit Ray 1961, India. Documentary, 54 min, B/W Producer: Films Division, Govt. of India 4:30 P.M., Friday 2 February 2007 Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS The film will be introduced by Prof. Ramin Jehanbegloo, Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi The documentary details the life and work of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The documentary was made to celebrate Tagore’s birth centenary in May 1961. Ray was conscious that he was making an official portrait of India’s celebrated poet and hence the film does not include any controversial aspects of Tagore’s life. However, it is far from being a propaganda film. The film comprises dramatized episodes from the poet’s life and archived images and documents. [Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris. He is currently the Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. Prior to this he was a post-doc at Harvard University and then headed the department for contemporary studies at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran. Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (Phoenix, 2000), and (as editor) Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (Lexington Books, 2004). His intellectual work has featured, among other elements, a close engagement with the life and work of Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.] _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From ravig1 at vsnl.com Thu Feb 1 10:36:52 2007 From: ravig1 at vsnl.com (Ravi Agarwal) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:36:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fw: Feb 3rd & 4th: KHOJ 'eco + art' Residency Message-ID: <27051B3A31934222A25D8C61BE97B324@ToxicsLink.local> ++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The KHOJ 'eco+art' Residency +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ with artists Atul Bhalla and Ravi Agarwal culminates with two programs. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Site Visit: Saturday February 3rd ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ a.. To the marigold flower fields on the river near Palla village, the location for Ravi Agarwal's work. b.. Atul Bhalla's installation on the river near Jagatpur village. c.. Boat Ride on the Yamuna around Jagatpur village . A Bus will leave from Triveni, Mandi House at 1:30 pm and return at 6.00 pm. Tea and snacks will be served. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OPEN STUDIO @ KHOJ, Sunday: February 4 th, 6 pm onwards ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The open day at Khoj will showcase photographs, installations and videos produced by the artists during the residency. We look forward to seeing you.... Also see Ravi's blog (www.haveyouseentheriver.blogspot.com) -- KHOJ Studios -17. Khirki Extension. Near Sai Baba Temple) New Delhi-17 Call:91-11-55655874\73 www.khojworkshop.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/25fcd5dc/attachment.html From dwaipayanbanerjee at yahoo.co.in Thu Feb 1 11:57:13 2007 From: dwaipayanbanerjee at yahoo.co.in (Dwaipayan Banerjee) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] Exploring Masculinities: A South Asian Travelling Seminar Message-ID: <20070201062713.29506.qmail@web8901.mail.in.yahoo.com> Sorry for posting this again, you may already have seen it under the announcements banner. That mail looked slightly unreadable because of the pagination; for those interested this will easier to go through. Thanks for your time. Exploring Masculinities: A South Asian Travelling Seminar Date: 13-14 February 2007 Time: 9:30 to 6:00 Venue: Department Of Sociology, University of Delhi (North Campus) The concept of 'masculinities', informed by recent feminist thought and the women's movement, has emerged as a means of renewing feminist discourse by encouraging a more relational approach to masculinities and femininities. This also allows for the investigation, problematisation and interrogation of masculinity equally with femininity. Not withstanding these enabling possibilities, however, "gender" is still essentially deployed in contemporary social science discourse as a synonym for women, its relational aspect obscured and the invitation to interrogate masculinities largely ignored. This is unfortunate because a textured understanding of the diversity of South Asian men's experiences, attitudes, beliefs, practices, situations, sexualities and institutions is essential to not only challenging the social dominance of men over women but for building a more humane world. The travelling seminar on masculinities has been conceived from the position that the study of masculinities is important in that it is 'simultaneously a place in gender relations, the practices through which men and women engage that place in gender, and the affects of these practices in bodily experiences, personality and culture.' (Connell R.W, 1994:71). The seminar is both an academic exercise in generating interest for further research on masculinities as well as a campaign to form a network of university communities that are willing to take up issues of gender equality. Organised by Aakar (www.southasianmasculinities.org), the seminar, as the title suggests, will travel to ten universities across south Asia. Conceived as a cross disciplinary event, the seminar comprises of academic papers; personal and activist narratives and; films/theatre/art on the theme of masculinities. The seminar at each location is held in collaboration with a university department. In Delhi, the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi is the co-organiser of the seminar. Dr. Deepak Mehta from the Department is co-ordinating the seminar. The speakers and discussants at the seminar to be held on 13/14 Feb 2007 in Delhi include: Dr. Jani De Silva, International Centre For Ethnic Studies, Colombo: Naradha's narrative: constructing subjectivity and masculinity through student politics. Dr. Rubina Saigol, Lahore Pakistan: Nation and Masculinity Superman Imagery in Muslim Nationalist Poetry Imtiaz Saikh, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka: Learning By Doing: Masculinities, Healthy Behaviour and Young Men’s sexual practices in Dhaka Rubina Khilji, Department of Gender Studies, University of Peshawar, Peshawar: Discussant Dr. Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi: Discussant Dr. Mary E John, Centre For Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi: Discussant Dr. Shail Mayaram, CSDS, Delhi: Discussant Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne: Pedestrian Desires: ‘Footpath Pornography’, Masculinities cultures, and the Aesthetic of fluid species Dr. Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi: Discussant Dr. Radhika Chopra, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi: Title Awaited Dr. Deepak Mehta, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi: Words that wound: Affects publics and the production of Hate in Bombay. Shudhabrata Sengupta, Sarai, Delhi: Discussant Shankar Ramaswamy, University of Chicago: Togethering Contra Othering: Male Hindu-Muslim Inter-Relations In Proletarian Delhi For more information contact: Dr. Deepak Mehta Email: Deepak.em at gmail.com Rahul Roy: khel at vsnl.com www.southasianmasculinities.org 9810395589 __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From evignesh at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 13:58:34 2007 From: evignesh at gmail.com (P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:58:34 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <39e1148c0702010028j21621565r35f30b20455ca656@mail.gmail.com> Dear All: I would be grateful to receive your comments on the "Equity Assurance Plan", at: http://dget.nic.in/WorldBank/worlbankassistedprojects.htm This project looks at possible ways of including various disadvantaged groups (SC/ST/Women) in the Indian vocational education and training (ITIs) system. Thanks & Regards, Vignesh. -- P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 India Ph: +91-11-2659 1374, 1936 (R); Telefax: +91-11-2659 6509 vignesh at hss.iitd.ac.in http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignesh From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 14:39:39 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:39:39 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Between patriotism and sedition Message-ID: Its funny. Going around killing politicians and ministers is patriotism (RDB style), but showing Lal Salaam is an offence. I know-- Lal Salaam was no Oscar material. This film (that had Nandita Das in the one of the lead roles) was released way back in 2002 if I remember right, and hardly anyone noticed it. But if one can go to jail for showing a film that is cleared by cencors (and was released in cinemas), may be one should see it. (What about a re-release? RDB is supposed to have re-released this Republic day, don't know if it happened). "Exhibiting this picture attracts the offence of "sedition" for which six Kui tribal cultural activists of Adva under Gajpati district of Orissa were sent to jail on 23rd Sept 2006.." [From a mail quoted in G P Ramachandran's blog, SEDITION-ORISSA STYLE]. Later in the mail it says, "It is said by the police that the film is on the maoist activities, which is a banned organisation as declared under the Criminal Law Amendment Act-1908.." Mm.. so no more "criminal activities" in movies.. no killing, no theft, no underworld..? It does not really seem so-- a certain RGV need not worry. [I look up for the meaning of the word sedition, and find this: "1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government. 2. any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.."] Well, so is it just that we have no more rebels? Not quite. The message seems to be clear -- if you want to rebel it is fine, do it the apolitical RDB way. I guess even a Yuva would pass, as long as the concerns of the film does not disturb the power brigade that still consists of the feudal lords. Definitely no Lal Salaam! [posted at http://sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com/2007/01/between-patriotism-and-sedition.html ] From cahen.x at levels9.com Thu Feb 1 14:41:42 2007 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:11:42 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] pourinfos Newsletter / 01-31 to 02-07-2007 Message-ID: <45C1AECE.1000407@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualité du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wenesday January 31 to Wenesday February 7 2007 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) @ 001 (31/01/2007) Residency : Residencies Eyebeam, Eyebeam, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34324-tit-Residence-Residencies-Eyebeam-Eyebeam- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (31/01/2007) Residency : Residency opportunity at Access Space, Sheffield, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34325-tit-Residence-Residency-opportunity-at-Access -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (31/01/2007) Residency : call for residencies in beijing, beijing, China. http://pourinfos.org/art-34326-tit-Residence-call-for-residencies-in-beijing- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (31/01/2007) Residency : Studio program, Asterides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34327-tit-Residence-atelier-d-artiste-Asterides- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (31/01/2007) Meetings : Working in Public: Art, Practice and Policy, The On the Edge (OTE) research programme, Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34328-tit--Working-in-Public-Art-Practice-and -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (31/01/2007) Meetings : Exhibition présentation by the curator Patrice Joly, Emba/galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34333-tit--decouvrir-l-exposition-en-compagnie-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (31/01/2007) Publication : new DVD, Abbas Kiarostami, Mk2 editions, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34338-tit--prochaines-sortie-DVD-Abbas-Kiarostami- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (31/01/2007) Publication : n#03, January 2007, Semaines, contemporary art, editions Analogues, Arles, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34339-tit--no-03-janvier-2007-Semaines- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (31/01/2007) Publication : Highschool, Tim Barber, éditions nieves, Zürich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34340-tit--Highschool-Tim-Barber-editions-nieves- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (31/01/2007) Publication : (art and power, from 1848 in our days) Art et pouvoir. De 1848 à nos jours, Paris, Philippe Poirrier, Cndp, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34342-tit--Art-et-pouvoir-De-1848-a-nos-jours- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (31/01/2007) Publication : (In Sérignan, Against any logic…, 15 years of contemporary art in Sérignan) À Sérignan, Contre toute logique…, 15 ans d’art contemporain à Sérignan, Somogy éditions d’art, Sérignan, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34343-tit--A-Serignan-Contre-toute-logique-15-ans -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (31/01/2007) Divers : Manifesten, rencontres internationales d'interventions poétiques de Limoges, Limoges, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34345-tit-Divers-Manifesten-rencontres -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (31/01/2007) Exhibition : Joëlle Flumet et Thierry Kuntzel au Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34348-tit--Joelle-Flumet-et-Thierry-Kuntzel-au -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (31/01/2007) Call : Re·Use, Films, New Forms Festival 07: Call for Proposals, Vancouver, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34350-tit--Re-Use-Films-New-Forms-Festival-07- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (31/01/2007) Call : La désinvolture de l'art, revue Figures de l'art, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34351-tit--La-desinvolture-de-l-art-revue-Figures -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (31/01/2007) Call : "Select 02 - La Mise à Poil", Miss China Beauty , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34352-tit--Select-02-La-Mise-a-Poil-Miss-China -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (31/01/2007) Call : painters, photographers, vidéastes, sculptors... Exhibition artatou 2007, Avalon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34353-tit--peintres-plasticiens-photographes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (31/01/2007) Call : MPhil Research Studentship, Interaction Design Lab, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34354-tit--MPhil-Research-Studentship-Interaction -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (31/01/2007) Call : MAC2007, Espace Champerret, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34355-tit--MAC2007-Espace-Champerret-Paris- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (31/01/2007) Call : Art Tech Media 07 art call, Tenerife, Spain. http://pourinfos.org/art-34356-tit--Art-Tech-Media-07-art-call-Tenerife- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (31/01/2007) Call : 2007 Margaret Mead Film Festival Call , New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34357-tit--2007-Margaret-Mead-Film-Festival-Call- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (31/01/2007) Call : 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34358-tit--12th-International-Media-Art-Biennale-WRO -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (31/01/2007) Call : sculpture et installation, A.S.B.L Sites en Ligne, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-34359-tit--sculpture-et-installation-A-S-B-L-Sites -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (01/02/2007) Meetings : " Le dernier oeuvre " Francis Bacon and Willem De Kooning, by Herve Vanel, Thursday February 1, 2007, auditorium du Louvre, Louvre Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34337-tit--Le-dernier-oeuvre-Francis-Bacon-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (02/02/2007) Exhibiton : Antoine Ronco, CAB - Contemporary Art Box, Association JeL, St Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34349-tit--Antoine-Ronco-CAB-Contemporary-Art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (05/02/2007) Meetings : Le seminaire CPM "Cultures, Patrimoines, Medias" du Clerse, Les criteres et les valeurs de la patrimonialisation, Monday February 5, 2007, University of Lille 1, Lille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34221-tit--Le-seminaire-CPM-Cultures-Patrimoines- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (05/02/2007) Meetings : "La caricature : un patrimoine de la contre-mémoire" Laurent Baridon, February 5, 2007, University of Bourgogne, MSH de Dijon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34269-tit--La-caricature-un-patrimoine-de-la -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Telemetries, artists and television, Gallery Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34238-tit--Telemetries-artistes-et-television- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Disappearance (Ben Barka). 41 artists, L'entrepôt , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34241-tit--Disparition-Ben-Barka-41-artistes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (07/02/2007) Rencontres : Dan Graham, Performer / Audience / Mirror, Rock My Religion, Vidéo et après, le 5 février 2007, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France http://pourinfos.org/art-34334-tit--Dan-Graham-Performer-Audience- -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From monica at sarai.net Fri Feb 2 10:15:02 2007 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:02 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] MediaArtHistories, new book on new media Message-ID: <55731EA3-E709-46F4-B7E3-D19C4AB5C206@sarai.net> MediaArtHistories edited by Oliver Grau - available from MIT Press 2007 Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach collaboration in new media art studies and practice. Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history. Overview After-Images Algorithmic Ars Combinatoria Ars Electronica Art and Illusion Art and Technology Art ex Machina Artificial Life Biotelematics Cinematic Apparatus Collage or E-Collage Computer Animation Computer Music Computer Sculpture Consciousness Counterculture Cyberarts Cybernetics Digital Art Digital Creativity Digital Sound Synthesis Dot-Coms Electronic Art Electronic Presence Entwendete Elektrizität Expanded Cinema Filmic Apparatus Fluxus Codex Fraktales Subjekt Gedächtnistheater Genealogy of Morals Gramatologie Hamlet\Maschine Hypertext Illuminations Immateriality Immersive Virtual Space Individuum und Kosmos “Influencing Machine” Information Age Information Arts Information Design Information Society Information Space Interactive Art Internet Art Junggesellenmaschinen Kinetische Kunst/Kinetic Art Markoffsche Ketten Mechanical Reproduction Mediale Emotionen Musique Algorithmique Nanotechnology Neural Darwinism Non-linear History Optische Medien Popular Culture Post-Formalist Art Phantasmagoria Robotopia Semantic Web Primer Simulacra & Simulation Soft Cinema Telematics Telepistemology Transgenic Art Understanding Media Videowelt Virtual Reality Visual Education Visualisations Contents OLIVER GRAU Introduction - MediaArtHistories RUDOLF ARNHEIM The Coming and Going of Images I Origins: Evolution Versus Revolution PETER WEIBEL It is Forbidden Not to Touch: Some Remarks on the (Forgotten Parts of the) History of Interactivity and Virtuality EDWARD SHANKEN Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon ERKKI HUHTAMO Twin-Touch-Test-Redux: Media Archeological Approach to Art, Interactivity, and Tactility DIETER DANIELS Duchamp: Interface: Turing: A Hypothetical Encounter Between the Bachelor Machine and the Universal Machine OLIVER GRAU Remember the Phantasmagoria! Illusion Politics of the 18th Century and its Multimedial Afterlife GUNALAN NADARAJAN Islamic Automation: A Reading of Al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) II Machine-Media-Exhibition EDMOND COUCHOT The Automatization of Figurative Techniques: Towards the Autonomous Image ANDREAS BROECKMANN Image, Process, Performance, Machine: Aspects of an Aesthetics of the Machinic RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI From Film to Interactive Art: Transformation in Media Art LOUISE POISSANT The Passage from Material to Interface CHRISTIANE PAUL The Myth of Immateriality: Presenting and Preserving New Media III Pop Meets Science MACHIKO KUSAHARA Device Art: A New Approach in Understanding Japanese Contemporary Media Art RON BURNETT Projecting Minds LEV MANOVICH Abstraction and Complexity TIMOTHY LENOIR Making Studies in New Media Critical IV Image Science FELICE FRANKEL Image, Meaning, and Discovery W. J. T. MITCHEL There are No Visual Media SEAN CUBITT Projection: Vanishing and Becoming DOUGLAS KAHN Between a Bach and a Hard Place: Productive Contraint in Early Computer Arts BARBARA MARIA STAFFORD Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From turbulence at turbulence.org Thu Feb 1 21:23:38 2007 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:53:38 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] UPGRADE! BOSTON: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg + Deb Todd Wheeler Message-ID: <000501c74619$33c406c0$6601a8c0@t5x1c0> UPGRADE! BOSTON: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg + Deb Todd Wheeler http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/ WHEN: February 15, 7 pm WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to Central Square and walk 1 block. < Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg> http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_15_07JPK.html Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg is a sound artist, composer, and shape note singer whose work explores the intersections of technology and tradition. His output encompasses installation, music for live performance, tunebooks, web design, audio tours, and transmission arts. Jesse's current work investigates the history and practice of Sacred Harp singing and the geological, social, technological, and religious history of upstate New York. Jesse is the cofounder of the "Society for a Subliminal State" and editor-in-chief of the Society's newsletter, "Subliminal Statements." His work has been performed and exhibited at art and historical venues internationally and throughout the Northeast. << Deb Todd Wheeler >> http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_15_07DTW.html Deb Todd Wheeler is a sculptor, inventor, and media artist. Using the vernacular of the 19th century, a time when art and science were more closely linked, she investigates alternative avenues for power that reflect our growing concern with sustainability today. She is a recipient of a LEF Contemporary Work Fund Artist grant in inter-media, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Sculpture and Installation, and the Artist Resource Trust Grant. She is on the Graduate Faculty of the Art Institute of Boston, and also teaches in the 3D department at Massachusetts College of Art. UP NEXT <<< Eric Gordon + Show-n-Tell >>> March 22, 2007 at 7 pm. Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence.org. If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 13:07:12 2007 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:37:12 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] art tech media '07 call for artworks!!! Message-ID: *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * *www.artechmedia.net * .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. *I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t i s t C a l l A r t T e c h M e d i a 0 7* *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * ** *www.artechmedia.net* ** Calling on all creatives of the world to participate. Submissions will be accepted from the following categories: A - Video art - Net-art - 2D & 3D Computer Animation - Blog, videoblog - Creation for mobile platforms - Digital Music B - Digital Communities - Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now. *The First International Art Tech Media Congress* has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national and international collaborative networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and promotion. Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development. www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. * ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ * *<<< * *GENERAL REGULATIONS Art Tech Media 07 art call* - Works must have been produced after January 1st, 2006. - The number of submissions is not limited. - Works may be presented in any language. However, a transcript of dialogues must be included in either Spanish or English, - The organization reserves the rights to use parts of the works for media broadcasting, within the promotional framework of artechmedia. - Following the process of selection based on abstratcs, all participants will be notified in writing of the result and the required format for the presentationof their work, preferably on DVD. - Authors will be responsible for copyright of their works. - Works selected will be exhibited in artechmedia. - A electronic catalogue will be produced in Spanish and English, including all the works. - Artists with works selected shall agree to assign a copy to artechmedia, which may be used in the subsequent exhibitions. - The organization is not responsible for the content of works in order to preserve freedom. *Projects:* - Those interested in submitting work in these categories must send a completed entry form. - The net-art @blog, videoblog must include the URL address in the entry form. - A part from the entry form, those interested in taking part in video art and computer animation must also send a DVD with their work. - Digital Music must be sent both in digital format and as a hard copy by post. - All mail is to be sent to the office central art tech media *Art Tech* c/Méndez Nuñez 102, 6ºD. 38001 S/C Tenerife. Canary Island. Spain *DEADLINE:* 30th march 2007 *SELECTION AND JURY* - Works presented will be selected by a committee of the organization. - In each category a jury composed of experts will select the works. - Jury's decision is final, and is not open to appeal. *SELECTED WORKS* must include: - Technical credits. - Technical requirements for its showing. - Two colour photographs of every work sent. - A short biography of author or representative organization. - A transcript of dialogues in spanish or english. - All works must include in their front page: the work's title, the delivery address, and the data of author or representative organization. - In case of not providing a correct delivery address, the organization will not be responsible for the works. - Submission of a work implies the acceptance of these regulations. *>registration form> enter* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *1st International Congress Art Tech Media* *www.artechmedia.net* contact inscription newsletter 8-9-10-11 th may . 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In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now. The First International Art Tech Media Congress has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national and international collaborative networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and promotion. Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development. *www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm* Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * The Conference will focus on three clearly complementary regions: *national, international and Ibero-American* *Round tables, invitation to send lectures and communiqués.* <<< The Conference will be held at three venues: *Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto Cervantes & Casa de América (Madrid).* *Dates: 8, 9, 10 & 11 th may 2007* *The directors:* Montse Arbelo & Joseba Franco *Main Objectives of the Congress* 1. To reflect, analyse and debate by sectors the current situation in art and new media to gain a better understanding of its different realities and necessities. 2. To present proposals that will energise and improve the relationship between the different sectors in order to stimulate and promote Spanish digital art both nationally and internationally. 3. To favour the presentation of proposals related to the opportunity and need to create an "Institute of Digital Arts", how it may be organised, its functions, objectives and its relationship with other Institutes and international institutions. 4. To optimise the creation of more Centres of Production and Research in collaboration with institutions and the private sector for the development of an innovative industrial and economic infrastructure. 5. The presentation of the book Art Tech Media 06, of selected lectures and communiqués as well as a survey made among various sectors related to digital art. *International call Art Tech Media 07* : Calling on all creatives of the world to participate, from the following categories: *- Video art- Net-art- 2D & 3D Computer Animation- Blog, videoblog - Creation for mobile platforms- Digital Music * - Digital Communities- Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art <<< ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *1st International Congress Art Tech Media* *www.artechmedia.net* contact inscription newsletter 8-9-10-11 th may . Madrid. 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Message-ID: <001401c745be$12496090$1166c2cb@freeda> PUKAR and Department of History, St. Xavier's College cordially invite you for a talk titled The Trams are Coming . by Dr. Frank Conlon Date: Thursday, 15th February 2006 Time: 5:00 PM onwards Venue: Multi-Media Room, First Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 400001 Dr. Conlon will analyse the growth of tramways in historical Bombay and their relationship to the urban development of the city. Some issues of both the introduction of tram technology--horse and electric--will be explored, as well as the reception and use (or non-use) of the tramways by the Bombay public. He will look at the ideas of tramway extension as a means to "de-congest" the old island by opening services to new areas for development. Bombay provides a marked contrast to the history of tramways in Europe and America insofar as the tramway operators were unable to speculatively build lines and develop residential property sites or subdivisions. The last trams operated in Mumbai in 1964 and the reasons for their being withdrawn will be discussed in the present context of seeking new urban transport solutions to Mumbai's monumental traffic congestion. Dr. Frank Conlon, professor emeritus of South Asian History at the University of Washington, Seattle, is among the seniormost scholars of modern India. His wide-ranging research interests include consumerism, religion, caste, and community. Among his many publications are his chapter titled "Dining Out in Bombay", in the book Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, published in 1995 and edited by Carol Breckenridge, and his book A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700-1935, published in 1977. Prof. Conlon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and has taught at the University of Washington since 1968. His service to the academic community is recognized far beyond the field of Indian history, due largely to his founding and editing of the virtual network H-Asia in 1994. This online community of researchers and teachers interested in diverse fields of Asian studies has benefited greatly from his contribution. PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone:: +91 (22) 6574 8152 Fax:: +91 (22) 6664 0561 Email:: pukar at pukar.org.in Website:: www.pukar.org.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Five commissions @ $5,000 (US) each. More >> http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm NOTE: While collaborative projects are preferred they are not a requirement. We have set up a FORUM for applicants to ask and answer questions and seek collaborators. GO TO FORUM >> http://transition.turbulence.org/forum/index.php JURORS: MICHAEL FRUMIN, Technical Director Emeritus, Eyebeam; NATASHA KHANDEKAR, Director, Art Interactive; JAMES MORGAN, Director, Ars Virtua; TREBOR SCHOLZ, Founder, Institute for Distributed Creativity; HELEN THORINGTON, Co-Director, Turbulence. See bios >> http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm#jurors IMPORTANT DATES: Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2007 Notification: Winners will be contacted after May 15, 2007 Delivery: Works must be completed by February 2008 This project is supported by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From digitaltalkies at rediffmail.com Thu Feb 1 14:57:57 2007 From: digitaltalkies at rediffmail.com (pankaj rishi kumar) Date: 1 Feb 2007 09:27:57 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Screening of "3 men and a bulb" at kala ghoda festival Message-ID: <20070201092757.20127.qmail@webmail90.rediffmail.com>           3 men and a bulb ( 62 mts with english subtitles) by Pankaj Rishi Kumar at Kala Ghoda Festival Bombay Natural History Society Hall, (BNHS) 7.30 pm 3rd februray' 07 The film was awarded IDPA's Best Documentary prize for "its sensitive construction of a discourses on displacement and infrastructure imbalances, done with meditative aplomb at an extraordinarily restrained pace." The film was in the competition at Mumbai, Munich and Mar Del Plata Documentary Festival (Argentina) The beauty of 3 Men and a Bulb lies in its simple, yet powerful, portrayal of the lives of Rawat, Satya and Harish. The documentary clocks in at 62 minutes and the time is well spent – which can’t be said about very many documentaries. By giving his subjects plenty of room, Kumar confirms the age-old dictum that developmental projects are meaningless if they can’t work for the people for whom they’re meant. “In a goody-goody film, you can tell people about new technology and its advantages,” said Kumar. “Even if you tell them the disadvantages, it’s at a theoretical level. But you don’t get into the day-to-day lives.” ... Nandini Ramnath, Time Out, (www.timeoutmumbai.net/client_flim/film_details.asp) kumartalkies.blogspot.com www.kalaghodaassociation.com SYNOPSIS 3 Men and a Bulb is a story of 3 men who earn a livelihood from their gharat (watermill) in foothills of Himalayas (Uttaranchal), India. The life led by these 3 men is meager, having access neither to electricity nor employment that brings regular income. Farming is very arduous, as supply of water is scarce. The gharat becomes a site, which each character wants to own and sometimes disown, in the quest for a better life. The story documents the 3 men’s personal hopes, anxieties and dreams set against the rustic life in the mountains. The narrative traverses their changing relationship with self and each other, offering exciting insights into human nature. It is a story of Rawat, Satya and young Harish. What happens when a rural economic system with a lot of promise is cracked up by administrative inconsistencies and individual enmity? What happens when 3 men who could have run the gharat and earned a comfortable livelihood, are moved by the inner voice telling them to leave and find a better source of income, a better life. 3 Men and a Bulb is a story about earning a good living, and a story about all the larger forces at work that don’t allow one to do so. Directors Statement This film began as an offshoot of my previous film, Gharat. It was a functional documentary film highlighting the potential of and the need for reviving the Gharats (watermills) as efficient indigenous technology. In strange and curious ways, the more time I spent with Rawat and his Gharat, I was convinced that my previous film could have been treated in a different manner both in form and content. The anger was both a frustration and a release. The frustration reflected in the fact that the issue based documentary form, which I was so used to, was insuffient to capture the essence in 28 minutes dictated by television. On the other hand, the release was accompanied by exploring a different form --a form that allowed me to test the boundaries of Truth, the real and unreal. 3 Men and a Bulb shatters the optimistic note plucked by the previous film, and depicts the stark microcosmic reality of one particular gharat, one particular village, and 3 men who are or will be earning their income from the gharat. For a year (6 visits of 10 days each) I documented the life of these 3 men, unaware of what will happen ...what is the drama in store... People do all sorts of unimaginable things to earn one square meal daily. Rawat, Satya and Harish should be thankful that they have a genuine and efficient way of earning a livelihood. But some things clearly might ruin it for them – total lack of government interest in gharats, and as Rawat says, the ignorance of HESCO in periodically supervising the schemes. Add to this the personal insecurities of the 3 men, and a perfectly valid source of income, bulb, could go bust. A fiction film with roots in documentary; a documentary which unravels as fiction. The film is an attempt to construct a fictional narrative capturing the drama of everyday mundane life. The cinema verite style of documentary has been purposefully merged with the dramatic expressive style of fiction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pankaj Rishi Kumar graduated from FTII in 1992 where he specialised in Film Editing. He began his film career in 1993 as an assistant editor on Sekhar kapur's "Bandirt Queen" . He edited documentaries, and TV serials before turning to making films himself. Pankaj Rishi Kumar has movies in his blood. His late father turned an old factory into the town of Kalpi's only cinema, Kumar Talkies. His first documentary, “Kumar Talkies”, offered a cinéma vérité portrait of people of Kalpi’s relationship to their only picture show and an examination of the consciousness-shaping role of local cinema in a globalised and digitised world. Made with support of Hubert Bals fund and India Foundation of The Arts, the film won critical acclaim. (screened at 40 festivals and won Best Film-L'alternative Barcelona, Special Jury at Zanzibar and Indian National awrd for Best Sound. ) The film has been recently been blown up to 35mm and will be released theatrically in 2006. His second film “Pathar Chujaeri” (The Play Is On) was about the survival of folk thetaer in war strife kashmir. (The film was screened at 25 film festivals and won Unesco Prize for Best Film at MITIL, Bronze Remi at Houston and a special Jury at Karachi, and Dallas South Asia festival.) His third film'The Vote" looked at the intricacies of the electoral politics. The film premierecat the Asia society in New York and picked up a special jury prize at Dallas South Asian film festival. Pankaj is currently working on his new project--a documentary on women boxers in India. The film is being made with support from Majlis foundation, Sarai and Jan Vrijman fund. PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR kumartalkies.blogspot.com   PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR; B/103, Gokul Tower, Thakur Complex, Kandivli (E), MUMBAI 400 101 PH: 91-22-2854 7585 59 gautam nagar, new delhi 49 Ph; 91-11- 2651 2019 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The story weaves into its main plot, which is a story of a boy and a girl trying to cut across the class distinction and follow their dreams, a story of an agricultural village and its inhabitants battling hard realities of their survival. While *Akh Daleel Loolech* is the first Kashmiri digital film, it is also any Kashmiri film to be made in the last two decades. The producers of the film say *Akh Daleel Loolech* is a small attempt "to grab the attention of the people instigating the brains in this field of art to come up with many more such ventures so as to fill the void where there are no artistic impressions burnt on a film roll." -- Peerzada Arshad Hamid +91-9419027486 +91-1932-234488 Address Baba mohalla, Bijbehara-192124 C/o Tak Trading Company, Bijbehara. Anantnag (Jammu & Kashmir) INDIA www.kashmirnewz.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/73b59832/attachment.html From t.ray at vsnl.com Sat Feb 3 20:05:43 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:35:43 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Climate change References: <148445.29332.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002201c747a0$97f9f9f0$7d00a8c0@Tapas> Hello. Most of you have probably read or heard by now that the latest climate change report is out. Here's the link to the summary. http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/WG1AR4_SPM_PlenaryApproved.pdf Happy reading! Tapas From vivek at sarai.net Sun Feb 4 10:06:45 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:06:45 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Penguin's Wiki-novel Message-ID: <45C562DD.8030106@sarai.net> My thoughts on the penguin wiki novel project: This is certainly not going to result in a literary masterpiece the first time round, nor is that what we should expect. However, the possibility seems real that if, over the years, we are able to socialize ourselves into this other kind of authorship, we could actually get better at doing it, and understand what it requires of and reveals about us. It would not, and need not, replace the dominant current model where (as I understand it) a single author accepts the final responsibility (and yes, the glory too) for the content of a text; but it would create powerful new possibilities and definitively dissolve the line between reader and writer. These kinds of experiments have been going on, in one fashion or another, at least since the early years of the twentieth century; but this is the first time such a thing has been initiated by a major publishing house. (Granted, it brings them publicity, but at the same time the potential for large-scale involvement is great.) The question is, what are the possible models (structures, protocols) for how it could work, and what would be the results of different models? If the initial attempts will inevitably goofy, how could we approach it with serious literary intent? If the original wikipedia idea finds refuge in "factual accuracy", how would aesthetic conflicts be resolved in the wikinovel? V. Brief article about the project in an Australian newspaper: http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/penguins-novel-wiki-project-kicks-off/2007/02/02/1169919507857.html Ethical guidelines page for wikinovel: http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Ethical_guidelines Blog-- Penguin editors' notes on the novel in progress, thinking about the project as it goes along: http://www.amillionpenguins.com/blog/ From t.ray at vsnl.com Sun Feb 4 20:38:03 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:08:03 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Soul shampoo References: <148445.29332.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <009101c7486e$44fa5f50$8200a8c0@Tapas> Could not resist sending this along. Edward Luce is a Financial Times correspondent who has written a book after a five-year tour of duty in India. The excerpt below is from its review in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Macintyre.t.html?8bu&emc=bu Luce, who is married to an Indian woman, treads carefully, most particularly when visiting the cow product research center at Nagpur. He is taken barefoot to inspect the holy cows in their stalls, past the bottles of cow urine promising to cure everything from cancer to obesity, and the cow-dung anti-dandruff shampoo. "All of these recipes are contained in the holy texts," he is told. Luce's amused discomfort - not only because he is standing up to his ankles in bovine effluent - is extreme, but he maintains a politeness that is exquisitely British. When invited to smell the leaves of fruit trees fertilized with the enriched biomass of the sacred cow, he declares: "This seemed very pleasant. And for all the science I know perhaps cow's urine really can cure cancer." From geert at desk.nl Mon Feb 5 11:58:26 2007 From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 07:28:26 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Cleanclothes] Indian garment companies try to silence Clean Clothes Campaign Message-ID: On Thursday January 11 2007, the Clean Clothes Campaign received a letter from Pramila Associates Advocates on behalf of their client Fibres and Fabrics International (FFI) in which they threaten with court proceedings should the Clean Clothes Campaign not refrain from reporting on the labour conditions at FFI. Since August 2006 the CCC together with the India Committee of the Netherlands, publicly urge the Indian garment companies Fibres and Fabrics International Pvt Ltd and Jeans Knit Pvt Ltd (FFI/JKPL) and companies currently sourcing from FFI/JKPL, including Ann Taylor, Armani, G-Star, Gap, Guess, Mexx and Rare, to address workers' rights violations at the FFI/JKPL facilities. Among these violations is the lack of channels for workers to voice their problems at FFI/JKPL without fear of reprisals. Major obstacle to improve working conditions at FFI/JKPL on the long term is the court order silencing local labour organisations that was issued in July 2006 on the basis of a libel complaint filed by FFI/JKPL. [link to update January 2007 and action request] In their letter Pramila Advocates accuse the CCC, the India Committee of the Netherlands and two Dutch internet providers to have "indulged in a systematic, planned conspiracy to malign and cause harm and damage to the business, image and reputation of our clients (i.e. FFI/JKPL) by deliberately publishing false information (...)". Pramila threatens to proceed against the CCC for "offences including cyber crime" should the CCC not remove all articles referring to the denial of workers' rights at FFI/JKPL and should the CCC not cease to urge the companies buying from FFI/JKPL to demand the withdrawal of the FFI/JKPL complaint against the local stakeholder organisations. Even though the letter is framed as a legal notice, our legal advisors call the letter lacking any juridical basis and defamatory in itself. The CCC believes this letter exemplary for the current attitude of FFI/JKPL when faced with criticism about the lack of workers' rights at FFI/JKPL, and regrets that FFI/JKPL is again not willing to enter a local dialogue. In reaction to this letter (see below), the CCC has again called upon FFI/JKPL to accept a mediated dialogue and to start a remediation process with the Bangalore unions and labour organisations involved. Read the FFI letter with accusations to the CCC at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/FFI_Defamation_Notice.pdf Read our reaction to this letter at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/07-02-01.htm#re Read our latest appeal in this case from Jan 10, 2007 - Fibres & Fabrics: Indian Labour Organisations still gagged at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/07-01-10.htm From monica.mody at gmail.com Fri Feb 2 19:22:33 2007 From: monica.mody at gmail.com (Monica Mody) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:22:33 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_Delhi_=3A_20th_F?= =?iso-8859-1?q?eb_=3A_7=2E30_pm_=3A_Queer_Caf=E9_Returns!?= Message-ID: <4badad3b0702020552m4d910536q3eceb25a935d3761@mail.gmail.com> Nigah www.nigahmedia.com presents Queer Café Open Mic Feb 20, 2007, Tuesday 7.30 pm After the first successful QC last year, we bring another evening for voices that challenge, queer, and subvert the ways in which we imagine/are supposed to imagine our many genders and sexualities. Inviting readings, performances, poetry, songs, video, films, mimes, erotica, rants, raves, elegies, odes, limericks, nazms, what have you. Your audience is waiting. Time slot per reader/performer: 10 mins. Email queercafe at nigahmedia.com to sign up, or show up early to get onto the line-up. Open to all. Entries invited in any language. Venue: The Attic 36 Regal Building (Above The People Tree) Sansad Marg, CP, New Delhi Tel : 2374 6050, 5150 3436 Nearest Metro: Rajiv Chowk : Best Parking: Hanuman Mandir on Baba Kharak Singh Marg Note: No photography, video or audio taping is permitted without prior permission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Together, these tales of unwanted sounds and smells, lobbies and bathrooms, laundry room gossip and unexpected favors form a single collective building, "Gothamberg". Their experiences form the elliptical threads of inhabitation, a mnemonic quality expressing something of the shared nature of dwelling. "Gothamberg" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. BIOGRAPHIES MARTIN WATTENBERG'S work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. Past projects include "The Shape of Song," "Thinking Machine," "history flow", the Whitney Artport's "Idea Line," and "Apartment." Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab where he creates new forms of data visualization. He is also known for the SmartMoney.com "Map of the Market." Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. MAREK WALCZAK is an artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. This has led to digital tools and interactive projects such as "Apartment" which was shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide. "Dialog Table" has recently been completed for the Walker Art Center, it is a shared interface that replaces a keyboard and mouse with gesture recognition technology. Current projects bridge physical installations with user interaction, including a one block long facade at "7 World Trade Center" that reacts to pedestrians walking beneath it (for James Carpenter Design) and video installations that activate physical space based on user engagement such as Third Person, recently shown at the ICA, London. CHUCK CROW is a financial engineer who specializes in the theory and implementation of autonomous trading systems. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Business Management from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University. Chuck uses digitally rendered sound and raw field recordings to create engaging soundscapes intended for controlled listening environments. From lush layering to stark microsound, his compositional techniques include the use of static noise, stochastic processes, and real-time web data. He acquired a private pilot's license during the summer of 2000. JOHANNA KINDVALL is an architect with a background in social work. She grew up in South Sweden and is now living in New York. After her degree in social studies she worked for seven years mostly with drug addicts and the mentally ill. At the same time she also worked with sculpture and art installations. For her architecture is a way to combine art with social issues. Johanna's work is often about the relationship between spaces and people, movement and behavior. In May 2003 Johanna got a grant from the Arts Grants Committee in Sweden to work with Marek Walczak in New York City on spaces and digital interaction. Currently Johanna is working for James Carpenter Design in New York. In her spare time she is also working on the Hudson Park Project. WARREN LEHRER is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, designer, performer, and educator. Over the past 25 years, he has been writing and designing books and theatrical works that explore the music of thought and speech, the complexity of character, the pathos and absurdity of life, and the relationship between social structures and the individual. The form and structure of his books attempt to capture the shape of thought and reunite the oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling with the printed page. Warren has published ten books including "Crossing the BLVD": strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America (written with Judith Sloan). With Dennis Bernstein, he wrote the play Social Security: the basic training of Eugene Solomon, and with Harvey Goldman, he co-wrote and co-composed a contemporary opera, The Search for It and Other Pronouns. He has also produced two audio CDs, and six radio documentaries for Public Radio. His plays and performance pieces have been performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, the Public Theatre, the Theatre Workshop (Scotland), the Knitting Factory, the Jewish Museum, Independent Art at Here, the Painted Bride, etc. CHRISTIANE PAUL is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of "Intelligent Agent", a service organization dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts and her book "Digital Art" (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK) was published in July 2003. She teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the show "Data Dynamics" (2001), the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, as well as the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum's online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible. Other curatorial work includes "The Passam3eege of Mirage" (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004); "Evident Traces" (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, 2004); and "eVolution -- the art of living systems" (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004). VIVIAN SELBO has conceptualized and designed web projects for "PBS/P.O.V.", the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY, among others. From 1995 to 1998, Selbo was the interface director of adaweb.com, now part of the Walker Art Center's Digital Arts Study Collection. Selbo is also an adjunct professor at the School of the Visual Arts, and New York University. For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From avinashcold at gmail.com Mon Feb 5 14:00:06 2007 From: avinashcold at gmail.com (Avinash Kumar) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:00:06 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] contest: Who Will Decide Whether Gujaratis Want to See Parzania or Not? Message-ID: A mail on behalf of ANHAD *Who Will Decide Whether Gujaratis Want to See Parzania or Not? * ANHAD is announced *today* on February 2, 2007 a SMS and e-mail contest for the Gujarati youth ( 15-25 years). Topic: Let Parzania be Screened Perturbed by the constant censorship by the State government on people's right to freedom of expression , Anhad has decided to announce this competition where young people can freely and creatively express their feelings. Young people are requested to send in their entries as 1. SMS messages and 2. e-mails. The best five entries from each category will get a very special prize : that is they will meet the cast and the director of the film. So 10 young people ( 5 from both categories) will have an exclusive interaction with Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika and Rahul Dholakia . They will also be given certificates of merit. Entries will be judged by a panel of 3 people . Weightage will be given to the content and creativity both. Category 1: sms to be sent to 9212110643 Category 2: e-mails to be sent to *parzania at gmail.com * Last date: 10 February, 2007 Prizes will be announced on February 14, 2007 Shabnam Hashmi ANHAD ( Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) 310, Shanti Sadan Estate Laldarwaza, Opp Dinbai Tower Ahmedabad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070205/898be212/attachment.html From monica at sarai.net Mon Feb 5 19:09:01 2007 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:09:01 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL Message-ID: PARTICIPATE IN THE POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL ! June 8, 9, 10, 2007 in Paris, France The 3rd edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL is opening it’s call for entries worldwide. Shorts and features, fiction, documentaries, clips, experimental films - all types of films, exclusively shot with a cellular telephone, are now being accepted. The selected films will be shown during the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL on June 8, 9, 10, 2007 at the Georges Pompidou Center - the largest center for contemporary arts in Europe. In 2005, the Forum des images launched the first edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL, a major event devoted to films made exclusively with cellular telephones. Our goal was to explore and initiate a better understanding of the impact of this new audio- visual tool, the video camera, included in the latest generation of mobile telephones. The first two editions of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL explored the creative uses of this tool and offered the presentation of new works by French video and graphic artists, writers, filmmakers, students of art and film schools and the general public, in major movie theaters. The Festival received more than 1,000 films which were made exclusively for the Festival, 200 of which were selected by a jury and screened at the Forum des images and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. Many films have gone on to be shown in other international films festivals : Locarno, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Kiev and at the International Critic’s Week, at the Festival de Cannes. The Forum des images is a major cultural institution in Paris, dedicated to the exploration of the relations between cinema, technologies and society through screenings, workshops, and the organisation of films festivals. The Forum des images is also a major French film archive with Paris as its theme. SEND US YOUR FILM SHOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH A CELLULAR TELEPHONE BEFORE MARCH 30, 2007. For more information : www.festivalpocketfilms.fr LE CONTACT: Yves Gaillard programmation internationale / international programmation tel. : +33 1 44 76 63 77 e-mail : yves.gaillard at forumdesimages.fr www.festivalpocketfilms.fr www.forumdesimages.net Lucie Touya Chargée de mission pour les arts visuels, le design et la mode Département Afrique et Caraïbes en créations Visual arts and design for Africa and the Caribbeans tel: 33 (0)1 53 69 35 79 fax: 33 (0)1 53 69 83 98 lucie.touya at culturesfrance.com CULTURESFRANCE 1 bis, avenue de Villars - 75007 Paris www.culturesfrance.com Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From isouweine at gmail.com Mon Feb 5 03:44:26 2007 From: isouweine at gmail.com (Isaac souweine) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:14:26 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Fwd: New Fellowships Available: Asia Pacific Leadership Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <34bf33330702041414p4dd0608cn7d7f6f5f7f9ea981@mail.gmail.com> Forwarding with a strong recommendation - this is a great program in a wonderful location. -Isaac ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Barker Date: Jan 7, 2007 9:22 PM Subject: New Fellowships Available: Asia Pacific Leadership Program To: Nick Barker The Asia Pacific Leadership Program East West Center, Hawaii http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp NEW FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE Entering its sixth year, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region. The APLP is a graduate certificate program combining the development of regional expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership capacity. Based at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, the program is creating a network of dynamic leaders from around the world who are familiar with the critical issues and cultures of the Asia Pacific region and trained to work collaboratively. The program involves intensive coursework and field studies. All participants receive an APLP Entry Fellowship valued at approximately $10,000. Participants The Asia Pacific Leadership Program seeks outstanding individuals with high leadership potential from across the Asia Pacific region, North America and beyond. All participants have at least a Bachelors degree with the majority having graduate degrees as well. At least 20 countries are represented in each cohort. APLP Fellows come together from all walks of life, including areas as diverse as government, business, NGOs, health sciences, media, monastic orders, and the academe. Participants will gain a broad regional perspective, become knowledgeable about the critical challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region, and be trained to exercise collaborative leadership and promote cooperation toward the well-being of the countries and peoples of the region. The APLP empowers future leaders with the knowledge, skills, experiences and supportive community needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change in the 21st century. The program was established through generous funding support from the Freeman Foundation. Application Forms and Fellowships For more information about the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, as well as application forms and fellowship opportunities, please visit our website at: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp Recruitment for 2007-08 is open. Places are limited. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The deadline is February 15, 2007. East-West Center The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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'Interviewing as a Research Method' Participants: All Senior Fellows and a few Youth Fellows Resource Person: Nilu Damle, Journalist Venue: Lecture Hall, P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi Date: 5th November 2006 'Early Steps in Analysis' Participants: Senior Fellows Resource Person: Vandana Khare, Project Coordinator, PUKAR Venue: CVOD Jain School, Char Nal Dongri Date: 19th December 2006 'Research Methodology' Participants: All Senior Fellows and a few Youth Fellows Resource Person: Dr. Mala Pandurang, Professor, SNDT Venue: Lecture Hall, P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi Date: 11th November 2006 'Mapping as a Research Method' Participants: Senior Fellows and Youth Fellows working on projects which require the use of mapping as a research method. Resource Person: Shilpa Ranade, Architect, PUKAR Associate Date: 19th November 2006 INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE India Residency for the ICI fellows November - December 2006 New Delhi, November 24 - November 27, 2006 Mumbai, November 28 - December 3, 2006 Clockwise from top left: Chinese Ambassador His Excellency Sun Yuxi; Nachiket Mor of ICICI Bank; Pratap Bhanu Mehta of the Centre for Policy Research; the ICI fellows. PUKAR is the Indian partner of the India China Institute (ICI), based in The New School, New York. The first cohort of Fellows - five Chinese and five Indian - of ICI's India China Fellows Program participated in a 10-day residency spread across Agra, Delhi, and Mumbai. The India Residency, which focused on urbanization and globalization, was a significant opportunity to develop the collaborative research projects conceived at the New York Residency in April 2006. During this residency, discussions focused on changing India-China relations, capital markets and regulation, and industrialization and renewal. Site visits included Parivartan (a people's movement for accountable governance and the right to information), the Parel mill lands in Mumbai, and informal housing in Dharavi. The Fellows interacted with the most eminent experts in India, such as Sanjaya Baru (media advisor to the Prime Minister), Chinese ambassador Sun Yuxi, and Sandeep Parekh (executive director, Securities and Exchange Board of India). The Fellows will participate in their third and last residency in China, in June 2007. ANNOUNCEMENT PUKAR & Department of History, St. Xavier's College cordially invite you for a talk The Trams are Coming . by Dr. Frank Conlon Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Washington, Seattle Date: Thursday 15th February 2007 Time: 5:00 PM onwards Venue: Multi-Media Room, First Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 400001 PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address :: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir PM Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone :: +91 (22) 65748152 Fax :: +91 (22) 66640561 Email :: pukar at pukar.org.in Website :: http://www.pukar.org.in If you cannot view the page click on the link below: http://pukar.org.in/pukar/ezine/archiving0104/ezine04.html PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. 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From delhi.yunus at gmail.com Tue Feb 6 15:14:12 2007 From: delhi.yunus at gmail.com (Syed Yunus) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:44:12 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] Encounter MAID In INDIA Message-ID: Yesterday New delhi 25 faced a major crises. most of the house maids in the area were on leave and the housewives a little angry. complaining that 'these maids always do this.. there is so much to do and all my work has been delayed'..blah..blah. Apparantly it is a very common phenomanon, which can be easily ignored but i was forced to think about it when my mother,sister in law and a neighbour aunty repeated the same anguish. I thought may be the scheduled demolition drive on the bank of yamuna is the reason for it and people might be worried for their shelters, the Urdu News papers also displayed full page features on the demolition . Most of these Maids are bangla speaking and live along the banks of yamuna in the so called 'unathorised' illegal colonies or settlement . Our maid also lives in the same settlement and she didn't come yesterday for washing. Today when my mom enquired about her 'Bunk' she said that she was picked up by the Police on the charges of being a bangladeshi, she was kept in the PS Chitranjan park for almost five hours and released only when her husband brought the 'evidence' of her being indian. she said "More than 50 people were picked from her area at 3.am last night and only those who carried some 'proof' were 'released free'," others were beaten and their freedom cost them around 2000-2500 rupees per head. There was no news coverage of it. Day before yesterday our delhi polices performed an encounter in which four people were killed for allegedly being terrosist. the event might and might not have something to do with raids in my 'maids' area but raids in bangla speeking ghetto of low income group people are common and it appear more ' Normal' whenevr there is any threat to our national security. Around five years back I heard similar stories in seema puri from bangla speaking people. no body came to help them as it was a political issue. so now I have some disturbing pictures with me .whenever encounter happens in the city, muslim ghetto area is raided,bangla speaking people are charged as infilteraters and locked up, freedom is purchased and Maids go on a mass bunk. Have you ever encountered maids in India ? -- Change is the only constant in life ! From aarti at sarai.net Tue Feb 6 13:51:21 2007 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti Sethi) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:51:21 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Presentation at Sarai: The Scalable City Message-ID: <3727F4AF-9CE5-4565-8FC8-BC0FF8503A4D@sarai.net> The Scalable City An artist's Presentation by Sheldon Brown 4:30 P.M., Wednesday, 7 February 2007 Seminar-Room, Sarai-CSDS 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines. Sheldon Brown, Director of the Center of Research in Computing and the Arts and Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego, will discuss and demonstrate his current project - The Scalable City. The Scalable City is an interactive extrapolation of the cultural condition arising from the interaction of users, data and algorithms. As our world becomes increasingly characterized by this equation, we find ourselves inhabiting the artifacts of these relationships. The Scalable City generates its urban environment via the choreography of these artifacts. Brown's work in general examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. This work often exists across a range of public realms. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From arshad.mcrc at gmail.com Wed Feb 7 11:04:24 2007 From: arshad.mcrc at gmail.com (arshad amanullah) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:04:24 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Suicide Intellect Message-ID: <2076f31d0702062134n594f133dr2675dda5bac89649@mail.gmail.com> Suicide Intellect Ali Eteraz dissects the work of Ali Shiarati, the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution (c) Ali Eteraz Print A thinker, when unmoored from humanity, can become like those Death-Eaters in the world of Harry Potter: a black force; mysterious; hooded; shrouded; face-less; shooting his influence into your mind; blurring the distinction between you and him -- and as you flicker and shimmer, an epileptic to his suggestion, he takes your soul upon retreat. Ali Shariati, long described as the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution, one of the top three thinkers of twentieth century Islam, and with his affiliation with the Sorbonne, Marxism, Sartre and Frantz Fanon, naturally associated with the oppressed, was one of those people about whom it was hard to suggest that he had anything but the good of mankind in his heart. I know nothing of his heart, but his work I know quite well. Oh, his work! His work is an extended adulation of misanthropy and suicide. In the Muslim world no one man has done more to render death more acceptable than Ali Shariati. Much of the recent discussion about the Muslim proclivity towards militancy looks to Syed Qutb, the Muslim Brother from Egypt. Perhaps Qutb is the forerunner of Islamist institutional angst. But individual suicide? Have we asked what prompted it? If the answer to that is oppression, fine. But then we must ask, what legitimized it? Who legitimized it? Is the will to commit suicide a latent underlying force in a people? Does it percolate like water waiting to be drawn upon? If it does, who draws it out? Who has gone down to Hades and suckled at the Styx? Who has lapped up the abyssal depths to taste the dark water? Who has come running, with tongue flopping right to left, to share with his brethren the darkened water of suicide? Who has brought Cereberus the three-headed dog of death? Cerebral Ali Shariati, has. Alas. Who turned out to be, not the greatest voice of humanism in Islam as his followers contend, but the misapplication of continental nihilism. A man who in his desire to have us love the rebel, instead fell in love with the murderer. Ali Shariati came out of Shi'a Islam. One underlying element of Shi'a Islam is the recognition of the murder of Hussein at the Battle of Kerbala at the hands of Yazid who was the first true despot of the Muslim world. Since that fateful day, the murder of Hussein has made for the biggest culture of mourning a dead man this side of Christianity. In Iran, during the month of Muharram, death-plays are rampant -- where the mutilation of Hussein's entire clan of 72 is lamented and wept over. In Pakistan, men beat themselves with chains to feel a small iota of the pain that Hussein suffered when speared. Ali Shariati knew the mourning of Shi'a Islam quite well. What set Shariati apart was that he turned the mourning into rebellion. In "Red Shi'ism v. Black Shi'ism" he openly disavows "Black Shi'ism" which he considers to be rampantly pessimistic and argues in favor of "Red Shi'ism" which arises out of the primordial "No." He says: "Shi'ism begins with a "No"; a "No" which opposes the path chosen by history, and rebels against history." He redescribes Shi'a Islam to have emerged from a negation. There shouldn't be a more clearer proof of nihilism. But it gets worse. Due to his access to Hussein, Shariati had at his disposable a popular template upon which to impress his terrible philosophy. This is where more than anywhere else Shariati is at his most insidious, because more than making Hussein appear as a sort of hot-blooded warrior of the William Wallace variety, he makes Hussein into a cold, calculating, and most importantly, rational, practitioner of suicide. In Shariati's view, martyrdom is not something imposed upon you. It is chosen. Not just chosen, but rationally arrived at. Shariati says that martyrdom "is a death which is desired by our warrior, selected with all of the awareness, logic, reasoning, intelligence, understanding, consciousness and alertness that a human being has." Such are the words Shariati uses when describing Hussein, Son of Ali, Grandson of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. With Shariati, Hussein seems no more the bright-eyed idealist of early Islamic history; no more the young man who used to clamber upon his grandfather's back during prostrations. The pen, or should it be wand, in Shariati's claws turns Hussain into Bakunin, Kaliayev, Lenin, Mao, Bin Laden -- who do not unleash themselves against the forces of their oppression, rather, plot against them. The former is, at its worst, passion unchecked and might be reasoned against; the latter is reason unchecked and has no feeling. But Shariati is never fully able to let go of the mythical lore that undergird his childhood in a Shi'a culture. He grew up in a world of God. Everything must be for the sake of God. Even suicide. So he resorts to legitimizing his Hussein by positing that all of Hussein's rationality is sanctified by God. After all, every exercise of rationality requires it to be in the service of a higher principle. The higher principle for Shariati, in a fit of perverted irony, becomes the unity the martyr achieves by nearing God. In "Arise and Bear Witness" Shariati reminds us that on the Day of Judgment a martyr will not be wearing a shroud. Presumably this is because with his suicide a martyr has already sacrificed "the being of error and sin prior to death and now has arisen to bear witness." Think of it: a martyr, then, is a man who, on the day of judgment, when all humanity is being taken to account by God, on the great equalizing plains of justice, is simply not accountable. It turns out that the man who has consciously, rationally, hurled himself against a greater force and found himself extinguished like a moth in a flame -- for him there is no judgment. While the man who reformed, resolved, worked and advocated will be amidst the huddled mass. For the rebel, exemption; for the rational, judgment. The rebel, free; the rational, a slave. Shariati thus gives to Islamic theology the legitimacy of Hussein and Muhammad, packaged with the neurotic freedom of Sade and the murder of the Russian Anarchists. It should come as no surprise then that during the 1980's and early 1990's while traveling through the Muslim world one would encounter romanticized tales of Iranian boys, strapping bombs to themselves against Iraqi tanks. Whether these stories were based in fact or not became irrelevant because the lore of the suicide began to spread. Very soon Muslim people were reading suicide ack into their own national histories. All of a sudden all tank battles involving Pakistan were all about the young men who strapped themselves with grenades and met the Indian tanks. Shariati's conflation of voluntary death with the tragic and the mythic made such romanticizing very easy. It should also not be a great surprise that the man who has best come to represent the Shariati ideal is Osama Bin Laden who, because he is so rich, is presumed to be calculating; and because he lives as an ascetic is presumed to be a rebel. It would be fascinating to sit and trace the intellectual landmines which Shariati hit on his way to his proposals. He obviously had Fanon's idea of violence as a cleansing in mind; he also had in mind the Marxist notions of a revolution. He probably also had in his head the idea of the communist utopia, as well as the Shi'a utopia which will exist at the end of time when the Mahdi has returned. Such ideas, set into conversation with Islamic history, made Shariati a great expositor of revolution. He is, therefore, rightly called the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution. But merely suggesting a social revolution is one thing. Shariati went much further. He even re-read "reform" as revolution. In his essay, "Muhammad Iqbal" which is purportedly a eulogy to the Cambridge educated lawyer and Indo-Pakistani poet and philosopher, Shariati manages to transform even the legalistic and methodical Iqbal into a revolutionary. Shariati says, "When we say Iqbal was a reformer or that the great thinkers after Sayyid Jamal are known for being the greatest reformers of the century in the world, it is not in the sense that they supported gradual and external change in society. No! They were supporters of a deep-seated revolution, a revolution in thought, in views, in feelings; an ideological and cultural revolution." Ascribing such views of Iqbal, whose most famous work is a nine-part lecture on how Islamic Law needs to be gradually tackled and reformed, would be laughable, if Shariati's views on Iqbal had not already become the authority on what Iqbal stood for. By linking Iqbal to himself, and then subsequently to the Iranian revolution, Shariati has, at least in the hearts of Pakistani thinker, the idea that maybe Iqbal really was a revolutionary. There is very little that satisfactorily explains Shariati's nihilism. But in his poem "'One' in front of it, 'Zeroes' till Eternity" there is perhaps the clearest indication of the psychological proclivity of the man. The essential thrust of the poem is that God is the "One" and besides him there is nothing. There is no "1", Except God, There is nothing, There is nobody, One, In front of It, Till Eternity, Zeros. There is a tendency amidst practitioners of Islamic mysticism to argue that since the highest ideal is to love God, the greatest expression of this love can only be manifested if they minimize their personal ego. Most practitioners of Sufism take this to mean that one must be pious, humble, compassionate, and avoid arrogance. However, there are those who have tended to take the minimization of the personal ego to unprecedented levels. They have argued that if we show our love to God by way of negating our personality, then it means that upon successful negation we have become merged into God. Shariati expresses this idea by way of "till eternity, zeroes." There is God and there is no me. But by implication that means that I am within God. Whether this is anthropomorphism or a form of self-deification is a long standing debate in Islam. For our purposes that debate is really irrelevant. What matters is that we are able to find a root for Shariati's attraction to negation. Contrast this with Iqbal's views on Sufism, who argued that the highest good was not to make it to the mountaintop of self-negation and then ascend into the bosom of God; rather, cognizant that one could have found unity with God, the highest good is to return down from the mountain and join your fellow man. The fact that Shariati missed this lesson, despite the fact that it is discussed in Iqbal's nine lectures series, is alarming. At worst it shows arrogance; at best, irresponsibility. Such traits would be alarming if found in any major thinker; they are downright frightening in the hands of one Ali Shariati. In 1977, Shariati was murdered in London under mysterious circumstances. Whether he approved of his own killing we will never know. What we do know is that were he around still he would approve of the murder in the name of God. Ali Eteraz is a writer in NYC. He recently finished a novel about Muslim immigrants and is now working on a play which borrows heavily from the Quran. He also maintains the popular blog Unwilling Self-Negation . His work has previously appeared on The Revealer and Killing the Buddha. On Identity Theory: "Suicide Intellect" arshad amanullah new delhi-25. From sumit at tarshi.net Tue Feb 6 14:14:04 2007 From: sumit at tarshi.net (Sumit Baudh) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:14:04 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_Invitation_/20_F?= =?iso-8859-1?q?eb_/4-7pm_/Human_Rights_Challenging_the_Penalizatio?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n_of_Same-Sex_Sexual_Activity_/Alliance_Fran=E7aise?= Message-ID: <20070206084408.7D23D28D716@mail.sarai.net> The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting a discussion on Human Rights Challenging the Penalization of Same-Sex Sexual Activity 20 February 2007 (Tuesday), 4:00 – 7:00 pm Alliance Française, 72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi No Passes Required. ENTRY on first-come-first-served basis Section 377 of Indian Penal Code 1860, makes illegal ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’ thus: “377. Unnatural Offences. Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.” The law penalizes certain sexual acts equally. For example oral sex, regardless of whether it is heterosexual or homosexual; even penile-masturbation of one person by another, is considered criminal. Although facially neutral, the law has effectively stigmatized and criminalized a section more than others, namely the same-sex desiring people, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), hijra, kothi and other Queer people. This discussion will focus on some of the streams and segments of human rights that challenge the penalization of same-sex sexual activity. Details about the exact programme, speakers and the chief discussant – to be announced. For now, please block the date in your diary. Updated information will be posted on the website http://www.asiasrc.org/ Information, available at this stage, follows: One of the speakers, Prof. Robert Wintemute, is Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King’s College, University of London, where he teaches European Union Law, Human Rights Law, and Anti-Discrimination Law. He is the author of Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter (Oxford University Press, 1995/1997), and the editor (with honorary co-editor Mads Andenæs) of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001). He has drafted interventions by LGBT and other NGOs in the European Court of Human Rights (adoption of children by lesbian and gay individuals, and recognition of unmarried same-sex couples), and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (equal access to legal marriage for same-sex couples), and served as Co-President of the largest-ever International Conference on LGBT Human Rights, 1st World Outgames, Montreal, 26-29 July 2006. Prof. Wintemute will speak about international and comparative law on penalization of same-sex sexual activity, and the importance of interventions by LGBT and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in human rights cases before the courts. He assisted with Yale Law School's intervention in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which the US Supreme Court cited in its decision to strike down the "sodomy" laws that remained in around 13 states. Arvind Narrain is a lawyer with and founder member of the Alternative Law Forum, based in Bangalore, India. 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More info on http://self.engad.org 2. 9-11 February 2007 VideoChannel presentation and screening of the CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival selections http://coff.newmediafest.org --> CologneOFF I - Genderscapes & --> CologneOFF II - Image vs Music on CeC & CaC Carnival of E-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/ at India International Centre New Dehli/India organised by The Academy of Electronic Arts New Dehli/India General info on http://videochannel.newmediafest.org Detailled info about the selected films & artists CologneOFF I - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=57 CologneOFF II - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=64 ----------------------------------------- These info are released by NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net and Media/Art/Cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org the global window to media art from Cologne powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------ info & contact info (at) nmartproject.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From aman.am at gmail.com Wed Feb 7 11:52:58 2007 From: aman.am at gmail.com (Aman Sethi) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:52:58 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] We're in jail dude; transcripts from Iraq Message-ID: <995a19920702062222i91365e1t4141def6caa905cf@mail.gmail.com> A bit of background - Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed a few weeks short of his 26th birthday while on patrol with the British contingent in Iraq when US aircraft mistakenly opened fire on British ground patrols. The transcripts follow: A. I'm going to be sick' The transcript of the conversation between two US pilots whose planes attacked a British convoy in southern Iraq in March 2003 Tuesday February 6, 2007 Guardian Unlimited According to The Sun, which printed the transcript from a cockpit video taken from one of the planes and obtained by the newspaper, this was the attack in which Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed. The transcript identifies the pilots of the A-10 planes only as POPOV36 - who fired at the convoy, and who the Sun said was a lieutenant colonel -- and POPOV35, a major. Also speaking are Manila Hotel, Manila34 and Lightning34, US Marine Corps forward air controllers on the ground and attached to British units. Later, Sky Chief, a US AWAC jet controlling the air battle and COSTA58, a British pilot nearby, also speak. The times given, from the digital clock on the pilot's display, are in GMT. Transcript starts: 1336.30 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV from MANILA HOTEL. Can you confirm you engaged that tube and those vehicles? 1336.36 POPOV35: Affirm Sir. Looks like I've got multiple vehicles in reverts at about 800 metres to the north of your arty (artillery) rounds. Can you switch fire, and shift fire, and get some arty rounds on those? 1336.47 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, I understand that those are the impacts you observed earlier on my timing? 1336.51 POPOV35: Affirmative. 1336.52 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, standby. Let me make sure they're not on another mission. 1336.57 POPOV36: Hey, I got a four ship. Looks like we got orange panels on them though. Do we have any friendlies up in this area? 1337.03 MANILA HOTEL: I understand that was north 800 metres. 1337.12 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV, understand that was north 800 metres? 1337.16 POPOV35: Confirm, north 800 metres. Confirm there are no friendlies this far north on the ground. 1337.21 MANILA HOTEL: That is an affirm. You are well clear of friendlies. 1337.25 POPOV35: Copy. I see multiple riveted vehicles. Some look like flatbed trucks and others are green vehicles. Can't quite make out the type. Look like may be ZIL157s [Russian made trucks used by Iraqi army]. 1337.36 MANILA HOTEL: Roger. That matches our intel up there. And understand you also have the other fixed wing up this push? For terminal control, if you can. 1337.44 POPOV35: I'd love to. I didn't talk to him yet. 1337.46 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, I believe CASPER is up this push too. Two Super Tomcats. 1337.54 POPOV35: Hey dude. 1337.56 POPOV36: I got a four ship of vehicles that are evenly spaced along a road going north. 1338.04 POPOV36: Look down at your right, 2 o'clock, at 10 o'clock low, there is a, left 10 o'clock low, look down there north along that canal, right there. Coming up just south of the village. 1338.21 POPOV35: Evenly spaced? Where we strafed? 1338.23 POPOV36: No. No. Further east, further west, right now. And there's four or five of them right now heading up there. 1338.29 POPOV35: No, I don't have you visual. 1338.30 POPOV36: I'm back at your 6 - no factor. 1338.31 POPOV35: OK, now where's this canal? 1338.35 POPOV35: Don't hit those F18s that are out there. 1338.38 POPOV36: OK. Right underneath you. Right now, there's a canal that runs north/south. There's a small village, and there are vehicles that are spaced evenly there. 1338.49 POPOV36: They look like they have orange panels on though. 1338.51 POPOV35: He told me, he told me there's nobody north of here. 1338.52 POPOV36: I know. There, right on the river. 1338.53 POPOV35: I see vehicles though, might be our original dudes. 1339.09 POPOV36: They've got something orange on top of them. 1339.10 POPOV35: POPOV for MANILA 3, is MANILA 34 in this area? 1339.14 MANILA HOTEL: Say again? 1339.15 POPOV35: MANILA HOTEL, is MANILA 34 in this area? 1339.19 MANILA HOTEL: Negative. Understand they are well clear of that now. 1339.23 POPOV35: OK, copy. Like I said, multiple riveted vehicles. They look like flatbed trucks. Are those your targets? 1339.30 MANILA HOTEL: That's affirm. 1339.31 POPOV35: OK. 1339.34 POPOV36: Let me ask you one question. 1339.35 POPOV35: What's that? 1339.45 POPO36: (to MANILA HOTEL) Hey, tell me what type of rocket launchers you got up here. 1339.50 POPOV36: I think they're rocket launchers. 1339.52 MANILA HOTEL: . . . (garbled) You were stepped on, say again. 1339.54 POPOV35: MANILA HOTEL, fire your arty up that 800 metres north, and see how we do. 1340.01 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, standby for shot. They are getting adjustments to the guns now. 1340.34 POPOV35: Copy. 1340.09 POPOV36: Roll up your right wing and look right underneath you. 1340.12 POPOV35: (angry) I know what you're talking about. 1340.13 POPOV36: OK, well they got orange rockets on them. 1340.17 POPOV35: Orange rockets? 1340.17 POPOV36: Yeah, I think so. 1340.18 POPOV35: Let me look. 1340.26 POPOV35: We need to think about getting home. 1340.29 POPOV36: 3.6 is what it says (a fuel measurement). 1340.31 POPOV35: Yeah, I know. I'm talking time wise. 1340.35 POPOV36: I think killing these damn rocket launchers, it would be great. (The tape then becomes garbled) 1340.52 MANILA HOTEL: Yeah, POPOV36, MANILA HOTEL. I've got other aircraft up this push. Not sure they're coming to me. Someone else might be working this freak. 1341.00 POPOV35: Yeah, MANILA34 is working them, break, break. 1340.12 POPOV36: Yeah, I see that, you see I'm going to roll down. 1340.15 MANILA 34: Break, be advised MANILA34 is not working the F18s unless they are trying to check in with me, over. 1341.21 POPOV35: Copy. 1341.24 POPOV36: OK, do you see the orange things on top of them? 1341.32 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL. Are you able to switch to Crimson? 1341.37 POPOV36: POPOV 36 is rolling in. 1341.40 MANILA HOTEL: Tell you what. 1341.41 POPOV35: I'm coming off west. You roll in. It looks like they are exactly what we're talking about. 1341.49 POPOV36: We got visual. 1341.50 POPOV36: OK. I want to get that first one before he gets into town then. 1341.53 POPOV35: Get him - get him. 1341.55 POPOV36: All right, we got rocket launchers, it looks like. Number 2 is rolling in from the south to the north, and 2's in. 1342.04 POPOV35: Get it. According to The Sun, POPOV36, then puts his A-10 into a dive to strafe the British column, destroying two Scimitar armoured vehicles and killing L/Cpl Hull. 1342.09 - GUNFIRE - 1342.18 POPOV35: I'm off your west. 1342.22 POPOV35: Good hits. 1342.29 POPOV36: Got a visual. 1342.30 POPOV35: I got a visual. You're at your high 10. 1342.31 POPOV36: Gotcha. 1342.30 POPOV36: That's what you think they are, right? 1342.39 POPOV35: It looks like it to me, and I got my goggles on them now. 1342.59 POPOV35: OK, I'm looking at getting down low at this. 1343.13 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL, guns . . . 1343.17 MANILA HOTEL: To engage those targets in the revetts [slopes]. 1343.24 POPOV36: It looks like he is hauling ass. Ha ha. Is that what you think they are? 1343.34 POPOV36: 1-2 1343.35 POPOV35: It doesn't look friendly. 1343.38 POPOV36: OK, I'm in again from the south. 1343.40 POPOV35: Ok. 1343.47 - GUNFIRE - 1343.54 LIGHTNING 34: POPOV 34, LIGHTNING 34. 1344.09 POPOV35: POPOV 35, LIGHTNING 34 GO. 1344.12 LIGHTNING 34: Roger, POPOV. Be advised that in the 3122 and 3222 group box you have friendly armour in the area. Yellow, small armoured tanks. Just be advised. 1344.16 POPOV35: Ahh shit. 1344.19 P0POV35: Got a - got a smoke. 1344.21 LIGHTNING 34: Hey, POPOV34, abort your mission. You got a, looks we might have a blue on blue situation. 1344.25 POPOV35: Fuck. God bless it. 1344.29 POPOV35: POPOV 34. 1344.35 POPOV35: Fuck, fuck, fuck. 1344.36 MANILA 34: POPOV34, this is MANILA 34. Did you copy my last, over? 1344.39 POPOV35: I did. 1344.47 POPOV35: Confirm those are friendlies on that side of the canal. 1344.51 POPOV35: Shit. 1344.58 MANILA 34: Standby POPOV. 1345.04 POPOV36: God dammit. 1344.14 MANILA HOTEL: Hey POPOV 36, from MANILA HOTEL. 1344.25 MANILA 34: OK POPOV. Just west of the 3-4 easting. On the berm up there, the 3422 area is where we have our friendlies, over. 1344.39 POPOV35: All right, POPOV 35 has smoke. Let me know how those friendlies are right now, please. 1344.45 MANILA 34: Roger, standby. 1344.49 POPOV35: Gotta go home dude. 1344.50 POPOV36: Yeah, I know. We're fucked. 1345.54 POPOV35: Shit. 1346.01 POPOV36: As you cross the circle, you are 3 o'clock low. 1346.03 POPOV35: Roger. 1346.12 POPOV35: POPOV 35 is bingo. Let us know what's happening. 13446.15 MANILA HOTEL: Roger. We are getting that information for you right now. Standby. 1346.20 POPOV36: Fuck. 1346.47 MANILA 34: POPOV, this is MANILA 34 over. 1346.51 POPOV35: Go. 1346.55 MANILA 34: POPOV 4, MANILA 34 over. 1347.01 POPOV35: Go. 1347.02 MANILA 34: We are getting an initial brief that there was one killed and one wounded, over. 1347.09 POPOV35: Copy. RTB (return to base). 1347.18 POPOV35: I'm going to be sick. 1347.24 POPOV36: Ah fuck. 1347.48 POPOV35: Did you hear? 1347.51 POPOV36: Yeah, this sucks. 1347.52 POPOV35: We're in jail, dude. 1347.59 POPOV36: Aaaahhhh. 1348.12 SKY CHIEF: MANILA this is SKY CHIEF over. 1348.18 MANILA34: This is MANILA 34, send SKY CHIEF. 1348.22 COSTA58: SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. 1348.25 MANILA HOTEL: SKY CHIEF, this is MANILA HOTEL. 1348.30 COSTA58: SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. 1348.41 SKY CHIEF: Relaying for TWINACT, the A-10s are running against friendlies. 1348.47 COSTA58: POPOV 35, this is COSTA58. Relaying message for TWINACT. Abort, abort. 1348.54 SKY CHIEF: MANILA how copy A-10s are running against friendlies. Abort. Over. 1349.07 COSTA58: From TWINACT, abort, abort. 1349. 11 POPOV35: POPOV 35 aborting. 1349.14 COSTA58: We will relay that back to TWINACT. 1349.18 POPOV36: Fuck. God fucking shit. 1350.21 POPOV36: Dammit. Fucking damn it. 1351.17 P0POV36: God dammit. Fuck me dead (weeping). 1351.25 POPOV35: You with me? 1351.27 POPOV36: Yeah. 1351.30 POPOV35: They did say there were no friendlies. 1351.33 POPOV36: Yeah, I know that thing with the orange panels is going to screw us. They look like orange rockets on top. 1351.48 POPOV35: Your tape still on? 1351.49 POPOV36: Yeah. 1351.54 POPOV35: Mine is end of tape. Transcript ends. 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Date: March 2, 2007 Time: 10 am to 3:30 pm Venue: Multipurpose Room, 1 Pace Plaza, Pace University Free and open to all Registration: send an email to turbulence at turbulence.org Contact: Helen Thorington (newradio at turbulence.org); Jillian McDonald (jmcdonald2 at pace.edu) In July 2004 the not-for-profit media organization New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. began the networked_performance blog to chronicle observations that internet based creative practice is expanding due to the ready availability of wireless, mobile, and GPS computational devices and the emergence of the programmable web. We observe that artists, designers and researchers working in digitally networked and programmable environments are increasingly making projects that are media platforms, tools and services which are open and contingent upon participation and the contribution of content to realize them. The March 2nd Symposium, Programmable Media: Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration, hosted by Pace University, will explore two forms of current practice. First, the creation of original software to create tools and services for creative and social use, such as a freely available 3-D drawing tool and musical instrument, or a public commons meta layer conceived as a continuous public space for collaboration. Second, the creation of original work using the tools available within open platforms such as Second Life and MySpace to build community and raise awareness. SCHEDULE 10:00 - 10:45 am Introduction: Social Coding: Tools, Platforms, Systems Helen Thorington: Turbulence.org, networked_performance blog Michelle Riel: Siting this Symposium in current practice Q&A (audience) 10:45 - 11:00 am Transition 11:00 am - 12.20 pm Roundtable 1: Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer: The Social Space of the Net: ShiftSpace Amit Pitaru: Sonic Wire Sculptor Tom Igoe: Networked Objects: Email Clock & Air Quality Meter & others Discussion (with moderators) Q&A (audience) 12.20 - 2:00 pm lunch break 2:00 - 3:20 pm Roundtable 2: Cary Peppermint: The Performative Space of the Net John (Craig) Freeman: Participatory Installation Art in Second Life Michelle Riel: Responsive Soft-Biological Systems Discussion (with moderators) Q&A (audience) Participant Biographies: John (Craig) Freeman is an artist and educator who uses digital technologies to produce place-based virtual reality and site-specific public art. The virtual reality work is made up of projected interactive environments that lead the audience from global satellite images to immersive, user navigated scenes on the ground. As one explores these virtual spaces, the story of the place unfolds in a montage of nonlinear media. Freeman's work has been exhibited internationally. He has recently introduced it into the 3-D graphical world of Second Life. Freeman is currently an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston. Tom Igoe teaches courses in physical computing and networking, exploring ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wider range of human physical expression. Coming from a background in theatre, his work has centered on physical interaction related to live performance and public space. His current research focuses on ecologically sustainable practices in technology development. Along with Dan O'Sullivan, he co-authored the book "Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers," which has been adopted by numerous digital art and design programs around the world. He is working on another book on networked objects, for O'Reilly Media, due out in 2007. Projects include a series of networked banquet table centerpieces and musical instruments; an email clock; and a series of interactive dioramas, created in collaboration with M.R. Petit. He has consulted for The American Museum of the Moving Image, EAR Studio, Diller + Scofidio Architects, Eos Orchestra, and others. He is a contributor to MAKE magazine and a collaborator on the Arduino open source microcontroller project. He hopes someday to work with monkeys, as well. Cary Peppermint is a conceptual artist who works with digital technologies and performance art. He is assistant professor of art at Colgate University where he teaches courses in the theory and practice of digital art. Peppermint distributes his ongoing network performances through an independent website of information-art called "Restlessculture.net." (http://www.restlessculture.net) The focus of Cary's work is the creative inquiry into the cultural effects of an increasingly interconnected, information-based global culture and the setting of information free through accessible, searchable, database-driven new media objects and performances. His net.art includes some of the first real-time, interactive performances realized via CU-SEEME and early internet browser technologies. Cary's latest works engage the concepts of wilderness, space, the American frontier, and environmental ethics and explore how new media technologies both limit and expand our conceptions of nature and the environment, questioning how we live and make art with and in nature. He has curated two international exhibitions of digitally infused eco-art, "Technorganic" and "Wilderness Information Network." Cary exhibits internationally and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, Experimental Television Workshop Grant, and NYSCA's Decentralization Grant. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Computer Fine Arts. Dan Phiffer is a new media hacker from California, interested in exploring cultural dimensions of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet. Drawing on his computer science background, Dan's software projects seek to provide meaningful creative opportunities through intuitive user interfaces. Dan now lives in Brooklyn, New York and is pursuing a Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Amit Pitaru is an artist, designer and researcher of Human Machine Interaction (HCI). Amit cross-palliates his work between a wide range of fields; As an artist, he develops custom-made musical and animation instruments, and has recently exhibited/performed at the London Design Museum, Paris Pompidou Center, Sundance Film festival and ICC Museum in Tokyo. Amit is also a designer with particular interest in Assistive Technologies and Universal Design. He is currently commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation to write a chapter for an upcoming book on his recent work - creating toys and software that are inclusively accessible to people with various disabilities. As an educator, Amit develops curriculums that focus on the coupling of technology and the creative thought process. He regularly teaches at New York University's ITP and Cooper Union's Arts department. Michelle Riel is associate professor of new media and chair of the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department at California State University Monterey Bay. Riel collaborates with turbulence.org on the networked_performance blog, documenting and presenting on emerging work that is both networked and live. She is an award winning designer and NEA commissioned net artist. Her current work, antSongs, is a responsive music system collaborating with ants to explore issues of sustainability, community, and globalism. Helen Thorington is an award winning writer, sound composer and media artist. Thorington is founder and co- director of the independent media organization, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., whose projects include the national weekly radio series, New American Radio, Turbulence.org (1996-present), and the networked_performance blog (2004-present). Thorington publishes and presents internationally on these projects. She is currently teaching in the Department of Arts and New Media at Emerson College. Mushon Zer-Aviv was born in Israel in 1976. He has been involved in and initiated cross-media projects in art, design, comics, animation, online culture and media activism. Co-founder of Shual.com design studio. A teacher at Shekar College of Design & Engineering. An active contributor to Pixelsurgeon.com, Exego.net and Maarav.org.il online magazines. Curated BD4D Tel-Aviv and started Upgrade! Tel-Aviv events, both series aimed at creating and developing the Israeli new-media creative network. Mushon is currently studying at NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From sivaprasad.salipalli at logicacmg.com Wed Feb 7 14:16:09 2007 From: sivaprasad.salipalli at logicacmg.com (Salipalli, SivaPrasad) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:16:09 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] BLANK NOISE: I ASK FOR IT Message-ID: <6B581A6127730F4F8C2CA861969E9F89226253@in-ex004.groupinfra.com> Hi Jasmeen, I work as software developer at logicaCMG, Bangalore.Ive read an article regarding your act at the brigade road. I wanna congratulate you for the innovative way of dealing the issue. Whenever I go on BMTC buses or whenever I wait in the bus stops, somewhere I feel ashamed of our deteriorating cultural values and moral ethos. The way gals are being starred at, the way some uncivilized men walk dashing and hitting gals , is so pathetic.They take it as some sensual pleasure ,but wont realize that someone else will be treating their sisters and gal friends similarly somewhere else. Forget about that, think how it feels when some gal goes through all this...........humiliation, irritation, helplessness. I would love to work for this cause. Regards, S.Siva Prasad This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Professor of History at Qinghua [Tsinghua] University in Beijing and the author and editor of many books, Wang Hui is also editor of Dushu (Reading), China’s premier journal of ideas and critical thought. This journal has a readership of something between 100, 000 to 120, 000 and is also read by members of the Chinese Communist Party. The English-language translation of his book of essays China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (Harvard, 2003 and 2006) brought his work to a wider audience, and established his reputation outside of China as a significant analyst and critic of contemporary capitalism in China. In 2004, Wang Hui’s four-volume Zhongguo xiandai sixiangde xingqi (The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought) was published in Beijing. It is a major reinterpretation of the history of Chinese thought from pre-imperial times through the present, and has had an enormous influence on contemporary discussions of national identity, politics, and the nature of state, region, and empire. Although China’s New Order contains important reflections on the Tianammen movement of 1989 and its aftermath, it would be inaccurate to describe Wang Hui as a dissident. The current Chinese leadership, through a range of social initiatives aimed at China’s growing inequality, has registered the force and truth of Wang Hui’s – and the New Left’s – critiques, although the regime’s capacity to address these problems remains uncertain. Indeed, it is to the character of contemporary politics, and of political possibility in the present, that Wang Hui has devoted recent attention. Extract from Pankaj Mishra's profile of Wang Hui in the New York Times magazine: China’s New Leftist Co-editor of China’s leading intellectual journal, Dushu (Reading), and the author of a four-volume history of Chinese thought, Wang, still in his mid-40’s, has emerged as a central figure among a group of writers and academics known collectively as the New Left. New Left intellectuals advocate a “Chinese alternative” to the neoliberal market economy, one that will guarantee the welfare of the country’s 800 million peasants left behind by recent reforms. And unlike much of China’s dissident class, which grew out of the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and consists largely of human rights and pro-democracy activists, Wang and the New Left view the Communist leadership as a likely force for change. Recent events — the purge of party leaders on anticorruption charges late last month and continuing efforts to curb market excesses — suggest that this view is neither utopian nor paradoxical. Though New Leftists have never directed government policy, their concerns are increasingly amplified by the central leadership. In the last few years, Wang has reflected eloquently and often on what outsiders see as the central paradox of contemporary China: an authoritarian state fostering a free-market economy while espousing socialism. On this first afternoon, he barely paused for small talk before embarking on an analysis of the country’s problems. He described how the Communist Party, though officially dedicated to egalitarianism, had opened its membership to rich businessmen. Many of its local officials, he said, used their arbitrary power to become successful entrepreneurs at the expense of the rural populations they were meant to serve and joined up with real estate speculators to seize collectively owned land from peasants. (According to Chinese officials, 60 percent of land acquisitions are illegal.) The result has been an alliance of elite political and commercial interests, Wang said, that recalls similar alliances in the United States and many East Asian countries. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From machleetank at gmail.com Thu Feb 8 11:52:44 2007 From: machleetank at gmail.com (Jasmeen P) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:52:44 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Annoucement- Sunday. Feb 11. Blank Noise Bangalore In-Reply-To: <277f58b70702070930ke2ea90ey315e205c88bb7754@mail.gmail.com> References: <277f58b70702060110j2fd4d470v8fc2d5e2ad15fcf4@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070927x542172b0xc279d65df9aad029@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070929u6d25ff57m4248c0758c2a5365@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070930ke2ea90ey315e205c88bb7754@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Who we are, where we go, what we wear, how we sit, stand, talk, walk in our very own cities. When we demand the need to make our cities non threatening , I don't expect anyone to think of me as their sister or mother, but to really look at women as citizens who have every right to be out on the streets, without any explanation. Sometimes we just love to walk, stand around, hang around, without looking 'available.' Blank Noise Bangalore calls you! Intervene the streets of your city on Sunday Feb 11 By participating you will be celebrated as a BNP Action Hero! 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As we catapult into a sparkling new year, LEA editor-in-chief Nisar Keshvanifirst thanks all quarters that made 2006 another resounding success — From the 91 contributors (who hailed from 17 countries), to the 42 peer review panelists who secured academic integrity through their critical comments and feedback, to the religiously dedicated guest editors, curators and moderators. Not forgotten are the unsung crew – the editorial team, colleagues in Leonardo's San Francisco office and most importantly, LEA's board and committee members. Kudos to one and all! Another tuneful installment awaits, as we launch "UNYAZI" a special supplement to complement Leonardo Music Journal Vol 16 (2006). This compilation includes essays from UNYAZI, the first South African electro-acoustic music symposium/festival. UNYAZI is the Zulu word for lightning. Held in Johannesburg 1-4 September 2005, UNYAZI brought together "an illustrious group of local and international electronic music practitioners", with diversity as "the obvious festival concept." Jürgen Bräuninger's editorial succinctly introduces us to UNYAZI and the essays that flow effortlessly after. Contributors to this eclectic album of sorts include Pauline Oliveros, who looks at North-South relationships, Lukas Ligeti, who explores the combination of African musical forms and Rodrigo Sigal, who illustrates heritage and identity in Latin American contemporary music. Theo Herbst introduces us to music technology at Stellenbosch University, and in closing, Mathew Ostrowski investigates the possibilities and implications of mapping databases on to sound as a compositional technique. Also in this issue, enjoy the discussions around our last special Wild Nature and Digital Life. In the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD) space, read moderators Marcus Bastos and Ryan Griffis' overview. Those of you who missed the wildly exhilarating chats, download transcripts of the Jeremy Hight & Peter Hasdell, Sue Thomas & Giselle Beiguelman, Jennifer Willet, Dene Grigar & Tara Rodgers and Brett Stalbaum & Kathryn Yusoff chats, available In Englishand Portuguese . And, don't miss the top Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS)English and Spanish abstracts from the 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2006, a run-down of what's available in LMJ 16(Noises Off — Sound Beyond Music), and job postings at the Art Institute of Chicago . Here's to another year of distinction! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leonardo electronic almanac alerts list" group. 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Pourinfos.org vous donne la parole, Inscrivez vos Commentaires ! Write your comments ! http://pourinfos.org/index.php?commentaires=34302&categorie=elections * * Sorry no translation... but you can get it from http://translate.google.com/translate or http://babelfish.altavista.com/ In french Bonjour Qu'est-ce que nous attendons d'un(e) élu(e) ? Beaucoup trop de choses certainement, mais ce que nous attendons avant tout, c'est une aide nous permettant de poursuivre nos activités et développer nos projets. Ce qui nous motivera dans notre choix pour un(e) candidat(e) à l'élection, c'est sa capacité à nous entendre, à nous répondre, à nous aider concrètement et à s'intéresser aux arts visuels oubliés dans cette campagne électorale. Fidèles à notre engagement d'information, nous communiquerons à nos lecteurs les réponses et oublis de chaque candidat(e)s concernant les questions que nous leurs avons adressé. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NOTRE ÉLECTION PRÉSIDENTIELLE 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://pourinfos.org/fichiers/_elections_04311_pourinfos_candidats.pdf A l'attention de : Antoine Waechter, Arlette Laguiller, Dominique Voynet, France Gamerre, François Bayrou, Jean-Marie Le Pen, José Bové, Marie-Georges Buffet, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Nicolas Sarkozy, Olivier Besancenot, Philippe de Villiers, Ségolène Royal. Mesdames, Messieurs les candidat(e)s à l'élection présidentielle de 2007, Au moment où la France s'apprête à faire un choix politique majeur en désignant parmi vous un nouveau (une nouvelle) Président(e) de la République, nous souhaitons attirer votre attention sur le site d'informations intitulé http://www.pourinfos.org l'actualité du monde de l'art, association de loi 1901 créée en 2001. Si ce site rencontre un grand succès et répond à une attente légitime de la part des professionnels de la création artistique (pourinfos.org figure en bonne place dans le paysage de l'information culturelle) celui-ci doit aujourd'hui faire face à de grandes difficultés de développement. NOS QUESTIONS SONT SIMPLES : 1) Que pouvez-vous faire concrètement pour aider pourinfos.org à poursuivre son action et son développement afin de trouver des financements à la hauteur de son audience ? 2) Quel est concrètement votre intérêt pour la culture et particulièrement pour les arts visuels ? 3) Quels sont vos engagements et garanties concernant pourinfos.org ? 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Write your comments ! http://pourinfos.org/index.php?commentaires=34302&categorie=elections @ 001 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Telemetries, artists and television, Gallery Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34238-tit--Telemetries-artistes-et-television- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Disappearance (Ben Barka). 41 artists, L'entrepôt , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34241-tit--Disparition-Ben-Barka-41-artistes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (07/02/2007) Meetings : Dan Graham, Performer / Audience / Mirror, Rock My Religion, Video and afterwards, on February 5, 2007, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France http://pourinfos.org/art-34334-tit--Dan-Graham-Performer-Audience- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (07/02/2007) Residency : 'Fellowships 2007', artistic and multicultural residential center located at New Delhi, India. http://pourinfos.org/art-34360-tit--Fellowships-2007-centre-residentiel -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (07/02/2007) Residency : A.I.R - FilmFest, Extended deadline, Hungarian International Artist/Writer Residency Program, Csopak, Hungary. http://pourinfos.org/art-34361-tit--A-I-R-FilmFest-Extended-deadline- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (07/02/2007) Residency : 7 days Dresden residency, Dresde, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34362-tit--7-days-Dresden-residency-Dresde- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (07/02/2007) Publication : Zona Sur_ Barrio Piedra Buena, Buenos Aires Argentina 2001-2006, Gian Paolo Minelli, éditions attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34368-tit--Zona-Sur-Barrio-Piedra-Buena-Buenos -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (07/02/2007) Publication : MediaArtHistories, sous la direction d'Oliver Grau, MIT Press 2007, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34369-tit--MediaArtHistories-sous-la-direction -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (07/02/2007) Publication : Guide of the Author, artist and graphic works, Syndicat National des Artistes Plasticiens CGT, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34370-tit--Guide-de-l-Auteur-d-uvres-plastiques-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (07/02/2007) Publication : Emergences - effacements, Errances du regard sur les pierres, (Emergences - obliterations, Wanders of the glance on the stones,) Martine Braun-Stanesco, Collection « Esthetiques – Ars », L'Harmattan editions, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34371-tit--Emergences-effacements-Errances-du -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (07/02/2007) Publication : « Le numerique » (Numerical) n#76, ETC, quarterly review of current art, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34372-tit--Le-numerique-Le-numero-76-ETC-revue -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (07/02/2007) Publication : “Esthetique et phénoménologie en mutation” (Aesthetic and phenomenology in change), n° 21/22, La Part de l’Œil, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-34373-tit--Esthetique-et-phenomenologie-en -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (07/02/2007) Publication : "Art et anthropologie" (Art and anthropology), revue Lieux Communs, LAUA - Langages Actions Urbaines Alterites, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34375-tit--Art-et-anthropologie-revue-Lieux -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (07/02/2007) Program : from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34377-tit--from-the-Daniel-Langlois-Foundation- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (07/02/2007) Job : in charged to public and cultural programming, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34378-tit--Un-e-charge-e-des-publics-et-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (07/02/2007) Job : technical assistant, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34379-tit--Un-e-assistant-e-regie-e-Frac -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (07/02/2007) Job : Curating New Media Art, Job and Studentships, School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34380-tit--Curating-New-Media-Art-Job-and -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (07/02/2007) Job : chef for information and communication, Haute école d'art et de design, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34381-tit--Charge-e-d-information-et-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (07/02/2007) Call : human and inhuman relations, Brigade des Images, Glaz'art, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34382-tit--relations-humaines-et-inhumaines-Brigade -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (07/02/2007) Call : Profession and practical artistic, JCSA, Msh Alpes de Grenoble, Grenoble, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34383-tit--Profession-et-pratiques-artistiques- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (07/02/2007) Call : International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings, ICHIM 07 Toronto, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34384-tit--International-Cultural-Heritage -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (07/02/2007) Call : graphic design, association Dernier Avertissement, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34385-tit--creation-graphique-association-Dernier -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (07/02/2007) Call : Contest of sound and visual modules with the CRAS, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34386-tit-Appel-a-Participation-Concours-de-modules -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (07/02/2007) Call : Braek 2.4 Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://pourinfos.org/art-34387-tit--Braek-2-4-Festival-Ljubljana- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (07/02/2007) Call : Artistic meetings of Chaillol 2007, espace culturel de Chaillol, Chaillol, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34390-tit--Artistiques-de-Chaillol-2007-espace -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (07/02/2007) Call: Appel à projets, SIANA 2007 / 2nd International Week of Numerical and Alternative Arts, Evry, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34392-tit--Appel-a-projets-SIANA-2007-2e-Semaine -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (07/02/2007) Call : "commercial for a concept", International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cologne, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34393-tit--commercial-for-a-concept-International -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (07/02/2007) Call : « Les territoires occupés » Arts et monde agricole …suite, (Occupied territories- Arts and agricultural world), Corbigny, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34394-tit--Les-territoires-occupes-Arts-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (09/02/2007) Meetings : presentation of research about museum, February 9, 2007, Inha, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34365-tit--presentation-d-un-travail-de-recherche-9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (09/02/2007) Meetings : conference and meeting with the artists of the collective Gigacircus, February 9, 2007, L'avant-Rue, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34367-tit--conference-et-rencontre-avec-les-artistes -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (11/02/2007) Meetings : Which would be the other PARACHUTE? , February 11, 2007, Sala Rosa, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34364-tit--Quel-serait-l-autre-PARACHUTE-11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (12/02/2007) Meetings : Sciences and Technology of the Exposure, Cycle "les lundis de la culture", Master 2, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34336-tit--Sciences-et-Techniques-de-l-Cycle-les -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (13/02/2007) Meetings : Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Sébastien Pluot, Image under control,, Entretiens sur l’art, Tuesday February 13, 2007 Foundation of Ricard company, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34329-tit--Renaud-Auguste-Dormeuil-Sebastien-Pluot- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From preetunair at yahoo.com Sat Feb 10 02:34:56 2007 From: preetunair at yahoo.com (PREETU NAIR) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:04:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Media reports on paedophilia in Goa Message-ID: <569071.86936.qm@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi, I am a journalist working in Goa and would like to bring to your attention two stories which appeared recently one the BBC report which goes like this Goa - new paedophile's paradise? another story which appeared in Times of India , Mumbai edition issue dated 30 November 2006 the title of the story "Paedophilic activities in Goa" First, I would like to bring to your kind attention the sensational statements made by BBC "BBC Radio: World Service: 5 Jan: 9.05-9.30am GMT (repeated 12:05 and 20:05 on 5 Jan; 00:05 on 6 Jan.). Child sex tourism is on the rise in India, but the authorities are in denial about the problem. Allan Urry travels to the Indian state of Goa to investigate the state-run orphanages where boys as young as 10 are made available to foreign tourists for sex. Allan says: "Once a hippy heaven, Goa is now a paedophile paradise where, even if child sex abusers are caught, they can buy their way out of trouble." Listen live online I listened to the whole interview and was quite suprised and startled to know that BBC is not mentioning any line to support the the sensational statement being made" Allan Urry travels to the Indian state of Goa to investigate the state-run orphanages where boys as young as 10 are made available to foreign tourists for sex." Secondly two main persons (read NGOs) quoted in the story - Nishtha Desai of Children's Rights Goa and Arun Pandey of Arz are saying that they have been misquoted. When Arun Pandey said, "Traffickers in Bombay contact the local traffickers and ask them how many girls they want, and then they traffic the girls by buses. The local traffickers receive these girls from the bus stop and then they supply them to the hotels and lodges... it's a very organised network," to Allan,he was actually referring to trafficking of persons for commercial sex work and not child sexual abuse. this has been clarified by Arun himself. I wrote to the BBC reporter asking for a clarrification and also wrote to the Producer of the programme but no reply. I think you will agree with me how the image of Goa is sullied by making sensational news stories. Secondly another disturbing report in the "Times of India" issue dated 30 November 2006, , in which Terre des hommes (TDH) child protection officer Ms. Christa Dammermann and Ingrid Mendonca, deputy regional co-ordinator TDH spoke to the media about "paedophilic activities in Goa" at Pune.(see article Now; paedophilia slur on Indian tourists ,Offenders In Goa Not Always Foreigners: NGO Times News Network appeared in Times of India, Mumbai edition, November 30,2006,page 6 (Nation Page) There are some very disturbing points she has made to the reporters that needs immediate attention, especially since I work in Goa. The remarks show how ignorant the speaker is about the scenario in Goa. Let me make it clear at the onset that my intention is not to criticize but only to help people genuine in their task. After all, Terre des hommes (TDH) is a respectable and serious funding agency which supports NGO's working on the issues of children and I am a journalist who has been reporting on these issues since last three years. I must admit that I was shocked to read such irresponsible quotes from individuals representing a reputed and committed organisation like TDH. What exactly is my objection? Christa Dammermann, who was in Pune to attend the national project partners meeting at YMCA on chil­dren's rights said, "I was taken aback to discover that Indian tourists were indulging in child sexual abuse in Goa. We also found that 60% of the cases involved perpetrators who were not even 18 years of age. She said that this dis­pelled the notion that only foreigners who came to Goa indulged in such acts." MY OBJECTION: Is there any data to prove this claim? How can Ms. Dammerman reach such a conclusion? In three years of my career as journalist I have not come across a case wherein a domestic tourist has been arrested for paedophilia. On the contrary three foreigners were arrested for pedophilic activities by the police but were later acquitted by the Children's Court in Goa for lack of evidence. It is also pertinent to note here that majority of cases in the Children's Court are about child sexual abuse and 80 percent of them is not committed by foreigners or domestic tourists, but by migrant labourers or known persons. No one denies the fact that paedophilia is a problem in Goa, but the extent and magnitude of the problem is not really known because there is no study in this regard and these kinds of statements add to existing confusion. It is sad that without any concrete data to support the claim, TDH's representative is making such irrational statements. Ingrid Mendonca, deputy regional co-ordinator TDH said that during their re­cent visit to Goa they found that Indian tourists were seeking minors when they visited red light areas there. MY OBJECTION: There can't be anything more ridiculous than this. Anyone who has visited and studied Goa knows that Baina, the unofficial red light area of Goa, was demolished in 2004. I don't deny the fact that prostitution still exists in Baina, but to say that Indian tourists seek minors when they visit the area is too much of an exaggeration. Besides, if that was the case then why was not a single customer seeking minors not arrested. NGO Anyay Rahit Zindagi (ARZ) is working in the area and must admit that they have done a commendable job in the area. However, they are also completely ignorant of such a trend. I received finally a response from Christa Dammermann "Regarding your remarks related to the article in Times of India I have spoken about offences of sexual exploitation of children in Germany, where we found 30 to 60% of perpetrators in cases reported to counseling centres here are less than 18 years of age." I do not know what to make of this statement.Well this is the scenario I just wanted to put before this you whether there is any mechanisms to control this type of approach individuals and organisations who make sensational statements and then leave the issue to die a natural death. Thank you Yours truly Preetu Nair "Live unnoticed" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preetu Nair Senior Reporter Gomantak Times St.Inez, Panaji Goa-403 001 India http://goadourada.blogspot.com/ "Freedom of mind is the real freedom" Babasaheb Ambedkar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 From hight at 34n118w.net Sat Feb 10 09:24:45 2007 From: hight at 34n118w.net (hight at 34n118w.net) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:54:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] transcript of jeremy Hight's talk for leonardo Digital Wild Edition now online Message-ID: <1964.76.173.61.107.1171079685.squirrel@webmail.34n118w.net> Discussion with Ryan GRiffis and Macus Bastos on locative dissent, locative narrative, space and our relationship to history,text and layers in time and the project shortlisted for the international space station to tell narratives above the earth. leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/digiwild/jhight.asp From vivek at sarai.net Sat Feb 10 14:51:18 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:51:18 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Uncreative Writing Message-ID: <45CD8E8E.7010805@sarai.net> http://poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/journals/2007.01.22.html o I hadn't read this blog before the remix workshop, but it might be interesting to read in light of those issues, re: text. Kenneth Goldsmith is one of the more somewhat interesting conceptual poets, and also also the big brains behind the brilliant, resource-heavy site for avant garde poetry, sound poetry, visual ("concrete") poetry, experimental film and music, Ubuweb ( www.ubu.com ) with some of the best free ( film, sound, etc) downloads around. This is is week-long blog for the Poetry Foundation, one of the oldest, most hallowed, moss-encrusted institutions / journals for poetry in the US. Goldsmith happily describes himself as "the most boring writer that has ever lived". But the question for me is, what next after this? Do we see these experiments in text as the final limit and retreat back, or go beyond them? I like Goldsmith's idea for his students that these practices should be seen as part of a toolkit, which is then put to *use* in various ways. [Even though he seems to see that as second prize.] How do we make use of these practices? I do not buy the avant-garde defence that these experiments will "by themselves", by their very formal existence, bring about change. In fact, despite the extremity and daring of these poetic experiments, they also conceal, like much experimental art, a deeper *"safeness"*, which actually prepares them nicely for gradual incorporation into the institutions and practices of power. (Andy Warhol left a legacy picked up, in circular fashion, by contemporary advertising; Goldsmith is a well-couched professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Christian Bok's project has received thousands of dollars in funding because it does not, eventually, as far as I can see, pose any fundamental challenge to the discipline of biology, and because it has many mainstream applications.) For a quick read, here are some excerpts from this blog: *(From "Tuesday")* "I teach a class at the University of Pennsylvania called “Uncreative Writing,” which is a pedagogical extension of my own poetics. In it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. Instead, they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patchwriting, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly, what they’ve surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness." *(From "Wednesday")* "Contemporary writing requires the expertise of a secretary crossed with the attitude of a pirate: replicating, organizing, mirroring, archiving, and reprinting, along with a more clandestine proclivity for bootlegging, plundering, hoarding, and file-sharing. We’ve needed to acquire a whole new skill set: we’ve become master typists, exacting cut-and-pasters, and OCR demons. There’s nothing we love more than transcription; we find few things more satisfying than collation." [...] "The writer’s solitary lair is transformed into a networked alchemical laboratory, dedicated to the brute physicality of textual transference. The sensuality of copying gigabytes from one drive to another: the whirr of the drive, intellectual matter manifested as sound. The carnal excitement from supercomputing heat generated in the service of poetry." *(From "Thursday")* "I am the most boring writer that has ever lived. If there were an Olympic sport for extreme boredom, I would get a gold medal. My books are impossible to read straight through. In fact, every time I have to proofread them before sending them off to the publisher, I fall asleep repeatedly. You really don’t need to read my books to get the idea of what they’re like; you just need to know the general concept. [...] "John Cage said, 'If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.'" On *"Friday"* of this blog, you'll find descriptions and links for a number of pieces. For me, the more interesting are by Caroline Bergvall (also a poet interested in performance-- see link ), Emma Kay, Christian Bok, and Kenneth Goldsmith's own "Traffic". Christian Bok is the author of the very nice Eunoia, probably the only bestseller of avant-garde poetry in recent times. This particular project, the Xenotext Experiment, is the most extreme and deeply amoral of all. If this is something that is really going to happen, I'll hold my comments until I see it, since it seems unstoppable. Vivek From veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca Mon Feb 12 02:08:53 2007 From: veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca (Sophie Le-Phat Ho) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:38:53 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Reader-list] [reminder] CFP Artivistic07 :: un.occupied spaces Message-ID: <20070211203853.41504.qmail@web52912.mail.yahoo.com> [ sorry for x-postings ] http://artivistic.omweb.org/modules/wakka/CFP2007 A r t i v i s t i c 2 0 0 7 [ 25-27 October (tbc) :: Montreal ] < CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > [ [ [ un.occupied spaces ] ] ] We are infiltrating all levels of society. Artists, activists, academics, architects, bureaucrats, the homeless, anarchists, first nations, immigrants, doctors, geeks, lawyers, teachers, witches, philosophers, clowns. Artivistic does not only provide a platform for political artists and artistic activists, but partakes in the very movements that work for change. In the pursuit of temporary moments of pleasure, we move towards freedom, for resistance is perpetual and oppression, ever-changing. We oppose the progression of monolithic thought and work for the development of new and dynamic forms of knowledge, exchange, representation and practices of everyday life. We aim to stimulate the mind, the imagination, and the body. We seek alternative models, portals unto un.occupied spaces. Artistivic moves beyond the moment, becoming a process of contamination through interpersonal dialogue that exceeds the event. Building on the 2005 generation, Artivistic in 2007 will continue to ask questions that do not leave us thinking we have resolved the issues. We strongly suggest that you answer one, or all, of our questions with a question of your own. Please submit your proposal for participation related (but not restricted) to the following : < what is indigenous ? > The very use of the term “indigenous” presupposes a claim to the existence of rights. The right to land. The right of return. The right to self-determination. The right to a life with dignity. In what context does indigenous mean something and how is it represented today? What is the relationship between identity based on place, the land and/or territories and the right to resources? What is indigenous in the context of globalisation, migrations and mobility? (Perhaps the question is not what is indigenous but how is indigenous?) < what is a natural space ? > The environment is in a pretty bad shape. Yet, does not typical environmentalism often propose “solutions” which alienate the very people that could make a difference by using a false dichotomy (natural/human-made, natural/artificial, nature/culture) and by perpetuating the myth of a pristine nature? Current strategies often make use of fear and guilt to provoke action, yet will we not be helping our environment in a more efficient way once we let go of our arrogance as humans and start living with and in the world rather than of, and alienated from, the world? < what is (there) to occupy ? > The term “occupation” often inspires images of invasion, enclosure and rape. How are spaces and bodies ruled over? What is public space, ultimately? Why do reserves exist? To ask what is occupation is in fact to ask what is left to occupy for occupation is more pervasive than it first appears. At the same time, occupation echoes resistance when it comes to certain forms of appropriation. So how does one occupy appropriation or how can one appropriate occupation? Your abstract or project description should be no longer than 250 words, your bio 75 words (seriously, we will stop reading after that). Please also include 50 words on how you will stimulate audience participation (sorry, NO paper reading). We welcome proposals for : roundtables, workshops, expeditions & walks, interventions, performance, projections, show-and-tells, broadcasts, games, visual arts, media & technology arts, street arts, informal arts, experimental arts, is-it-art arts, etc. and any combination of the above. We also welcome proposals having to do with personal experience, lessons learned, or future projects that could include other participants of Artivistic (this is a good place to start organising and collaborating). Deadline : 15 February 2007 Please send your proposals to : participation.artivistic at gmail.com > The Autonomous Conference Artivistic also includes an open-source component. Participants will be able to sign up on the day-of to hold an ad-hoc session that is not in the official program but is fully part of the event. You can prepare in advance, but you don’t need to submit anything. > Co-presentations Artivistic cannot fulfil its networking and pluralist agenda without collaborating with existing organisations of overlapping mandates. If you are an organisation interested in mutual aid in the context of event planning, please contact us (considerably in advance) with your idea for an event that you would like to organise and present with us : info.artivistic at gmail.com > Volunteers If you want to help us before, during and/or after the event, that would be really nice of you! We need a lot of extra hands with promotion, billeting, set-up, facilitation, cooking, tech, time-keeping, documenting, wrap-up, etc. Please email us at : volunteers.artivistic at gmail.com > Travel funding Unfortunately, we are unable to provide funding for your travel (we are not even getting paid to do this), but will be happy to offer any assistance with your own steps in finding funding. On the other hand, in-house accommodation and food will be provided to all Artivistic participants. > Press If you want to cover Artivistic, please send us your information by email here : press.artivistic at gmail.com Artivistic [ http://artivistic.omweb.org ] is a transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists should talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate. General inquiries : info.artivistic at gmail.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Courriel vous offre la meilleure protection possible contre les messages non nollicités http://mail.yahoo.ca Yahoo! Courriel From amc at va.com.au Sun Feb 11 23:35:45 2007 From: amc at va.com.au (amanda mcdonald crowley) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:05:45 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Eyebeam Residency Summer/Fall 2007 Call for Applicants Message-ID: Eyebeam Residency Summer/Fall 2007 Call for Applicants Eyebeam 540 West 21st Street, NY, USA http://www.eyebeam.org Eyebeam is currently calling for applications for six-month Residency opportunities. The application deadline is February 23 at 12pm EST. Artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists are invited to apply to be Residents at Eyebeam, to work for six months on projects or research of artistic endeavor or creative expression. The ideal Resident has experience working with and generating innovative technological art and/or creative technology projects and has a passion for interdisciplinary exchange. Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the work being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support them, and in consideration of the overarching research themes and activities of the organization. International applicants are welcome to apply, although we do not have the resources to cover travel or accommodation. We are happy to work with selected applicants, if required, to help them secure funds to cover these expenses. Residents receive 24/7 access to Eyebeam’s Chelsea facility in New York City, including equipment and technical expertise from Eyebeam staff and Fellows, a $5000 honorarium, the potential for collaborative exchange with other Residents as well as support from interns. The program term is approximately from September to February and March to August with the potential for extension and/or re- application. Group discussions and interdisciplinary projects, within and between the lab environments and organizational programs foster connections with other artists and staff. Residents also benefit from critiques, lectures and workshops by external practitioners chosen for their relationship to subjects and projects being worked on in the Labs. All Residents are encouraged to share their skills and knowledge with the larger Eyebeam community by conducting formal and/or informal workshops with others in the Labs as well as possible workshops open to the public. There are also opportunities to develop work for performance, events, seminars, exhibition or other public programming in the Eyebeam galleries and beyond during the Residency term. Fostering relationships between artists, hackers, coders, engineers and other creative technologists is central to Eyebeam’s mission. The intention is to facilitate relationships whereby technologists and artists can come together to germinate and hothouse their ideas, develop new processes and create new works through a period of immersion in a social context which is rich in technology, expertise and ideas. Looking forward, we are also establishing research groups to bring together creative practitioners working at Eyebeam with expert external participants to develop new research leading to possible public outcomes including seminars, public discussion and exhibition. Research themes for 2006-07 include (though will not be limited to): - Energy, Technology and Sustainability; - Urban research, urban interventions and media in public space. Artists and creative technologists interested in these research areas are particularly encouraged to apply for Residencies. For more information on the current 2006-07 Fellows working in visit http://www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=artists. All Residents and Fellows have access to shared resources across the lab environments. Creating programs and collaborations across the Labs is encouraged. TO APPLY To apply for a Summer/Fall 2007 Residency please visit http:// eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/ Founded in 1997, Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with the larger culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its output to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. Eyebeam's current programs are made possible through the generous support of the Atlantic Foundation, Time Warner Youth Media and Arts Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Experimental Television Center, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and many generous individuals. For a list of past supporters, please visit www.eyebeam.org. Location: 540 W. 21st Street between 10th & 11th Avenues Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00pm Bookstore: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00pm Perry Lowe Director of Communications EYEBEAM Art & Technology Center [T] 212.937.6580 x222 [F] 212.937.6582 [E] perry at eyebeam.org _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From patwardhan_gauri at yahoo.com Tue Feb 13 11:02:58 2007 From: patwardhan_gauri at yahoo.com (gouri) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:32:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Karachi ki Kahani Message-ID: <312921.62434.qm@web32403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear friends, Karachi ki Kahani is a two-volume, 950-page compilation in Urdu on the past, present and future of Pakistan's biggest metro, including selection of writings on Karachi, maps, photographs, statistics, bibliography You may place an order for one or more sets of Karachi ki Kahani by replying to this message and indicating the method of payment and delivery. In Pakistan: Price (2 volume set): Rs.1100 (including registered mailing charges) Payment and delivery: i) Cash payment, hand delivery (please visit our bookshop) ii) Payment by money order, delivery by registered mail ii) Payment by cheque or pay order (if you live in Karachi), delivery by registered mail iii) Payment by bank draft (if you live outside Karachi), delivery by registered mail Please note that all cheques, pay orders and drafts should be made favouring "CITY PRESS" and should be sent to the following address: City Press 316 Madina City Mall, Abdullah Haroon Road, Saddar, Karachi 74400. Outside Pakistan: Price (2 volume set): US $ 43 (including registered airmail charges) Payment and delivery: Please reply to this messages with your mailing address and contact to get the details. *** Press Reviews of the Earlier Version (published in 1996) A compendium on Karachi: a hundred years hence, this two-volume compilation will serve as a source of basic information about this megapolis. ¯ Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, Dawn, Karachi, 7 June 1996 Ajmal Kamal, who produced an earlier number of Aaj on the ethnic cauldron of former Yugoslavia, has tried to get to Karachi's personality and its concealed layers of self-destruction. The two volumes under review are an act of courage Ajmal Kamal has performed the incredible task of unearthing the real history of a city exploited by its leaders The two volumes of Aaj provide new ways of looking at the city and ourselves. ¯ Khaled Ahmed, The Friday Times, Lahore, 21-29 May 1996 We must all celebrate the publication of the two volumes of Aaj on Karachi titled Karachi ki Kahani. We have here, almost for the first time, a window on Karachi which affords an expansive revealing view of the various transformations that the city has endured Karachi ki Kahani may still be partially told but Aaj has fostered our essential kinship with a city in which the nation's own crisis of identity must be resolved. ¯ Ghazi Salahuddin, Newsline, Karachi, May 1996 This anthology of writings on Karachi is a painstaking labour of love, an attempt to rescue the city from the kind of thinking which can lead only to despair The effort that has gone into the selection and editing of the material and the translation from English and Sindhi must have called for almost a superhuman stamina for work, to say nothing of a dedication to the ideal of creating an environment of harmony and peace in a city torn by senseless dissensions. ¯ M. H. Askari, The Herald, Karachi, June 1996 Contributors Naomal Hotchand, John Brunton, K.R. Malkani, Pir Ali Mohammad Rashdi, Nagendranath Gupta, Diwan Singh Maftoon, Lokram Dodeja, Sohrab Katrak, Dr. Feroz Ahmed, Raffat Khan Haward, G. D. Khosla, Mohan Kalpana, Shaikh Ayaz, Sobho Gyanchandani, Kewal Motwani, Hatim Alvi, Hasan Habib, A. K. Brohi, Anwar Shaikh, Mir Imdad Ali, Abdul Hameed Shaikh, Hasan Manzar, Asad Mohammad Khan, Sigrid Kahle, Marjorie Hussain, Anita Ghulam Ali, Fahmida Riaz, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Asif Farrukhi, Mohammad Hanif, Zeenat Hisam, Benjamin Anthony, Sharif Soz, Liaquat Munawwar, Bexter Bhatti, Nasreen Stephen, Asif Shahbaz, Mahboob Jan, Tasneem Siddiqui, Kenneth Fernandez, Jan van der Linden, S Akbar Zaidi, Mark Tully, Arif Hasan. The two-volume anthology is dedicated to the memory of Jamshed Nusserwanji Mehta, Karachi's benefactor and long-time head of the Karachi Municipality. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html From octave at bol.net.in Tue Feb 13 07:54:52 2007 From: octave at bol.net.in (Sanjay Kak) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:54:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul Dravid By Shamsul Islam Message-ID: An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul Dravid By Shamsul Islam 13 February, 2007 Countercurrents.org Dear Rahul Dravid, Namaskar! You, presently, lead the cricket team of India and wear the National Flag, Tri-colour while playing for India in different parts of the globe. You must be well aware of the fact that this Tri-colour represents a Secular-Democratic India and team led by you which includes players from different religions and regions of the country, undoubtedly, symbolize the same reality. I hope you are familiar with the glorious heritage which the National Flag and a Secular-Democratic polity represent. These are the products of great anti-colonial struggle and ruthless fight against theocratic politics represented by organizations like the Muslim League, the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha. Despite the partition of India on the basis of religion mainly forced by Muslim League and dastardly killing of Father of the Nation by persons affiliated to the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS, India chose to remain a non-theocratic state. That is the significance of the Nation which you and your team represent and the Flag which you display on your costumes. I am sorry to write that by participating in the birth centenary programme of M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), the ideologue of the RSS, in Nagpur on January 20, 2007, you have not only violated the trust which this country has put in you but also saddened large sections of your fans who love and adore you because you and your team represent a Secular-Democratic India. According to a report which appeared in the Hindi organ of the RSS, Panchjanya (February 4, 2007, p.11), 'Indian cricket captain inaugurated the Surya Namaskar Mahayagya programme in the Vidarbh region (of Masharashtra)'. This campaign was organized by RSS 'to commemorate the birth centenary of Shri Guruji' who happened to be the second chief and the most prominent ideologue of the RSS.The cover page of Panchjanya also shows you lightening the lamp before the garlanded photograph of Golwalkar. I do not know who led you to join this programme of the RSS but I feel duty-bound to bring to your notice few crucial facts about the RSS and Guruji who led it from 1940 to 1973. The first Home Minister of independent India, Sardar Patel, held the RSS responsible for the assassination of Gandhiji. He in a letter to Golwalkar, dated 11 September 1948, clearly stated that it was communal poison spread by the RSS which was responsible for this tragedy. Without mincing words he wrote: 'As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji. Even an iota of the sympathy of the Government, or of the people, no more remained for the RSS. In fact opposition grew. Opposition turned more severe, when the RSS men expressed joy and distributed sweets after Gandhiji's death.' I hope you know that consequently the RSS was banned for its role in the assassination. Dear Rahul Saheb! Golwalkar whose birthday centenary programme you inaugurated was a die-hard fascist who rejected any talk of a democratic-secular India. In 1939 he penned a terrible book We or Our Nationhood Defined which ousted minorities like Muslims and Christians from the Indian nationhood. Even after Independence, in another book his Bunch of Thoughts, Golwalkar declared Muslims as enemy number one and Christians as enemy number two of the country. I wish you had boycotted such a programme as you can vouch to the fact that many Muslim and Christian players playing cricket with you have done proud to the nation. Golwalkar also glorified dictators like Mussolini and Hitler and insisted on adopting their methods for cleansing minorities in India. In his 1939 book while eulogizing Hitler he wrote: 'German race pride has now become the topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture,Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races - the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how wellnigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.' It is really astonishing that a renowned sportsperson like you went to be part of programmes dedicated to such a nasty person. I also would like to draw your attention to what RSS thinks about the Tri-colour which you so proudly wear. When the Indian Parliament decided to have Tri-colour as the National Flag, the English organ of the RSS, Organizer, ('Mystery behind the Bhagwa Dhawaj', August 14, 1947) denigrated this great choice in the following words: 'The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never [sic] be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country'. The RSS has been demanding the adoption of saffron flag as the National Flag of the country. It also needs to be known that when the Constituent Assembly of India finally passed the Constitution on 26 November 1949, the RSS demanded that it should be replaced by the Codes of Manu (Organizer November 30, 1949) which openly glorified Casteism, upheld persecution of Untouchables and denigrated women. Dear Mr. Rahul! You went to commemorate the birth centenary of a RSS leader who hated democracy and declared (while addressing the top cadres of the RSS at its Reshambagh headquarters, Nagpur in 1940) that Hindu India of his dreams needed only 'one flag (saffron), one leader and one ideology'. Let me end with the hope that a great cricketer like you who stands as a symbol of Democratic-Secular India will not betray the trust the country has shown in you and fall prey to the designs of Hindu Separatism. Wishing you all the best. Shamsul Islam. February 6, 2007. notointolerance at hotmail.com You can see this page at: http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-islam130207.htm From filmfestival at film-sharing.net Mon Feb 12 19:18:32 2007 From: filmfestival at film-sharing.net (film_sharing) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:32 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [infosouth] Call for entries 2nd NoBudget VideoFilmfestival Heilbronn/Weimar Message-ID: deutscher Text unten +++Please forward+++ http://www.filmsharing.eu/ 2nd International NoBudget VideoFilmfestival Heilbronn/Weimar, Germany - Deadline 1st of May 2007 WE want to show YOUR work! WE = the different festival for independent filmmakers from everywhere. The motto GELD SPIELT KEINE ROLLE (~money is not an issue/it's only money)is the key to our expectations of No Budget art and quality production. YOU = filmmaker of narrative or fiction films, independent in mind & approach, who wants to spread his original ideas among an enthousiastic audience Be quick and send us your work! Of course there are no entry fees! You'll find the entry form and more details on our homepage. Deadline for entries is the 1st of May! http://www.filmsharing.eu/ ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE +++bitte weiterleiten+++ WIR wollen DEINE Filme! WIR = ein Festival in (fast) neu und anders für unabhaengige Filmemacher von ueberall. Das Motto GELD SPIELT KEINE ROLLE ist die Kurzfassung unserer Idee von guten Filmen, es zaehlen Kreativitaet und Eigenheit! DU = Filmemacher narrativer und fiktionaler Filme, unabhaengig in Geist & Ausdruck, der seine Ideen mit einem begeisterungsfaehigen Publikum teilen will Schnell sein und Film einschicken! Das Einreichformular und weitere Infos gibt's auf der Homepage. Deadline 1. 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[art + blog = blogart?] ---> JavaMuseum - http://www.javamuseum.org is starting its 2nd phase by publishing on open call focussing on the question whether blogs and/or blogging can be tools for creating a new type of net based art. The launch of this new project in September 2007 is planned to be also the occasion for re-launching JavaMuseum after a phase of re-structuring since 2005. . JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art, founded in 2000, realized during the 1st phase (2001-2005) 18 show cases focussing on Internet based art in a global context, including more than 350 artists from 40 countries. In this way, JavaMuseum was able to show for the first time the dimension of Internet based art as a new and individual art genre, even if it is continously said to be dead. . For a + b = ba?, JavaMuseum is inviting artists to submit such an art project in form of a blog. The entry details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54 -------------------------------------------- JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org -------------------------------------------- This call is released by NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and New Media operating from Cologne/Germany. . info & contact _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From pukar at pukar.org.in Mon Feb 12 12:46:03 2007 From: pukar at pukar.org.in (PUKAR) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:46:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [announcements] Thursday, Feb. 15: The Trams are Coming... Message-ID: <00aa01c74e75$a9cfb350$7166c2cb@freeda> PUKAR and Department of History, St. Xavier's College cordially invite you for a talk The Trams are Coming . by Dr. Frank Conlon Date: Thursday, 15th February 2007 Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Venue: Multi-Media Room, First Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 400001 Dr. Conlon will analyse the growth of tramways in historical Bombay and their relationship to the urban development of the city. Some issues of both the introduction of tram technology--horse and electric--will be explored, as well as the reception and use (or non-use) of the tramways by the Bombay public. He will look at the ideas of tramway extension as a means to "de-congest" the old island by opening services to new areas for development. Bombay provides a marked contrast to the history of tramways in Europe and America insofar as the tramway operators were unable to speculatively build lines and develop residential property sites or subdivisions. The last trams operated in Mumbai in 1964 and the reasons for their being withdrawn will be discussed in the present context of seeking new urban transport solutions to Mumbai's monumental traffic congestion. Dr. Frank Conlon, professor emeritus of South Asian History at the University of Washington, Seattle, is among the seniormost scholars of modern India. His wide-ranging research interests include consumerism, religion, caste, and community. Among his many publications are his chapter titled "Dining Out in Bombay", in the book Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, published in 1995 and edited by Carol Breckenridge, and his book A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700-1935, published in 1977. Prof. Conlon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and has taught at the University of Washington since 1968. 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Often the utensils for cooking, storing and serving food are used for hitting the spouse or to get protection from the onslaught of one' better (but bitter at that moment!) half. However these utensils are not widely used as weapons, since these are picked as the irrefutable argument at the last stage of conflict. Yet Adeela Suleman, in a peaceful manner, has found some other utility of these ordinary items, which are in every kitchen and house in this society. Adeela has a considerable association with these objects, because in her previous body of works, the pots and pans were transformed into beautiful and strange pieces, which were part of her installations that dealt with the idea of appropriating the popular culture. It is obvious that Adeela, like many of her contemporaries, is also assimilating popular urban culture in her art, but her specific strategy separates her from a number of other 'users'. In fact, more than the strategy, it is her position – of being an insider – that saves her from being enticed into the fashion and fantasy of lower art/culture or turning into a feminist, politically motivated artist and the exploiter of post modernity. Actually her work, due to its openness of possibility cannot be classified into one movement or style. It constitutes an insider's response to the life and art around him/her. The two elements, life and art, have been blended in a seamless manner in her sculptures and installations. In the past, Adeela created works around the objects that are mainly used by women, and she converted these into other functional objects – after a long process of altering their appearance with the help of paint, soft fabric and popular designs. All of those works retained a link with a woman's view of the world around her. The recent work of Suleman seems to be moving beyond the boundaries of gender, even though it is all about male and female experiences/physiques. These sculpture pieces, single or combines, are derived from the fittings in the houses, especially from the bathrooms. She has selected the drain covers, shower handles, water pipes and other such things to build works, that – still remaining the mechanical and industrial products – suggest parts of the body or other organic forms. In this way, the choice of her material – from the bathroom fittings have an indispensable affinity with the meaning/reading of these art pieces. As one becomes aware of one's body in no other place, more than what one experiences inside the walls of a bathroom. During the shower or a bath, a person comes into (or returns) to his/her bare/pure self (at least physically) and in most cases has the chance to view one's own body and to examine it in detail – and from various angles. Thus the relationship of the body, the awareness of its presence and the realization of its sensuous pleasure are associated with the sanitary fittings within a bathroom. Adeela, in her work, brings out that connection into an open space and highlights the physicality of man and woman's body – either as a tool or like a vessel through combining the simple parts into one organic shape. The shape that may not be named into a specific organ, but one cannot avoid recalling all the suggestive/suggested substitutes. With the current body of work, Adeela has shown a maturity in her chosen vocabulary, since most elements in these works are not changed from their initial state. Basically it is the careful placement and the number of these pieces that has completed their transformation – into a work of art. A process that every artist aims for (and, which was best seen in the 'Bull's Head' by Picasso, where the seat and handle bar of a bicycle were joined, which look like the animal's head). This work by Pablo Picasso affirmed that instead of manual labour, it is the idea, which elevates an object into the realm of art: A concept that is evident in the new works of Adeela Suleman! Dear friends, Above is an article for you to read, written by Qudus Mirza (Art Critic/Artist)on Adeela Suleman, a Karachi based artist who makes sculptures out of objects. This article is part of the catalogue for her solo show on display at the Commune Artist Colony from 14th Feb to 19 th Feb. The group will meet at the commune to discuss her works in light with Quddus's appraisal on Suleman. Read and join us on Monday the 19th, February, 2007 at the Commune. Time: 6 : 00 pm Address: Commune Artists Colony, Sadiq Godown, Miskeen Gali, Off Old Queens Road, Karachi This is an open invitation, so please forward it to art students, artists and others interested are welcome Faisal Siddiqi siddiqilaw at yahoo.com Cell: 0333 2327326 Auj Khan aujkhn at yahoo.com Cell: 0300 268 1441 The study group is an initiative by Faisal Siddiqi and Auj Khan supported by VASL. Visit VASL at www.vaslart.org ============================================ From J.Dow at leeds.ac.uk Tue Feb 13 19:56:17 2007 From: J.Dow at leeds.ac.uk (Jamie Dow) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:26:17 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] Ethics of the Free Software Movement Message-ID: <12A6629ECF20BC48B8155F46C3176D445D5418@HERMES4.ds.leeds.ac.uk> I have to give a lecture (part of a module on Computing Ethics) on the ethics of free software. I wondered if the list is aware of any particularly good published pieces (papers / essays) on the claims made by Stallman and the Free Software movement. I'm pretty sympathetic to the view represented by Stallman et al., and would like to represent it as robustly as possible. Quite apart from my personal sympathies, that seems to be a good way to teach ethics *anyway* on any given issue! In particular, my present view is that there are two easily confused claims that are made by FS people, one of which looks as though it can probably be upheld, and the other of which looks as though it cannot (and certainly does not seem to me to be adequately supported by the arguments usually offered in support of it). Here are a couple of versions of the relevant claims: Claim 1: it would be better if all software was free ("free" in the technical sense used by the Free Software movement i.e. did not have restrictions on copying and modification). Claim 1*: it would be better if software producers made their software available without restrictions on copying and modification. Claim 2: it is impermissible to make software available under a license that restricts the licensee from copying and modifying the software. Claim 2*: software producers are not entitled to use licenses to control the use of software they have produced. Arguments are advanced about how much more efficient, beneficial, educational and generally conducive to the welfare of society it would be if software producers all made their software available 'free'ly. These all seem to support versions of claim 1. Claim 2 does not follow from claim 1. Nor, I think, can it be easily supported. The usual arguments that try to do this proceed along a couple of lines: (2a) from denying the existence of intellectual property rights. (2b) from claiming that licensing software is an objectionable intrusion into the lives of users (licenses - and the legal support behind them - are ways of exercising control over aspects of the lives of others, in ways that the licenser is not entitled to enjoy.) Neither of these seems to me to succeed in justifying Claim 2. (against 2a) even if there are no intellectual property rights, it does not follow that I am obliged to divulge to you everything that I know or anything that I know that you are interested in. Licensing can still be understood as divulging information in exchange for certain commitments on the user's part as to how they will treat that information. So the worry is that even if you grant the FS people their premise, their argument still doesn't go through. (also against 2a) Then again, one might worry about how plausible it is to deny intellectual property rights ... (against 2b) licenses are not really aptly compared to a kind of thought police coming into the user's private domain and insisting that she refuse to help her neighbour by copying software. Licenses operate by means of the user making certain promises in exchange for access to the software. It doesn't seem that the user's rights or privacy or freedoms are violated by an insistence that she keep the promises she has made. Perhaps there is some argument that it is impermissible to make the release of information one has (or software to which one has access) conditional on the user's making promises not to copy/modify. But at present I can't see how that argument would go. Can anyone help? Have I missed something major in the Stallman / Nissenbaum et al. arguments that fills the above gaps. Have I miconceived the debate? Thanks in advance. Jamie ____________________________________________ Jamie Dow Research Fellow IDEA CETL Tel: +44 113 343 7887 Email: J.Dow at leeds.ac.uk Web: http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/Staff/JD/index.html From aarti at sarai.net Tue Feb 13 19:57:21 2007 From: aarti at sarai.net (aarti at sarai.net) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:27:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] 'The Where of Now' - Positionality in the Moment of Globalisation: A Talk by Irit Rogoff Message-ID: <51327.203.101.2.120.1171376841.squirrel@mail.sarai.net> 'The Where of Now' - Positionality in the Moment of Globalisation. A Talk by Irit Rogoff 3:30 P.M, Wednesday, 14 February 2007 Seminar Room, Sarai- CSDS This talk explores the idea of alternative forms of situatedness in contemporary culture, especially contemporary art, at a time when it has also become increasingly difficult to define location. [Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College,London University. She works at the intersections of the critical,the political and contemporary artistic practices. Her most recent book is "Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture"(Routledge 2001). She directed "Translating the Image - Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts" (AHRC Research Project 2001-2006)from which 2 volumes will be published by Koenig Verlag in 2007.recent curatorial projects include "De-Regulation with thework of Kutlug Ataman" (Antwerp, Herzylia,Berlin) and "Academy - Learning from the Museum" (Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven)]. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From sadan at sarai.net Wed Feb 14 18:11:56 2007 From: sadan at sarai.net (Sadan) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:41:56 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] CALL FOR PAPERS - In-Spire, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2007 Message-ID: <45D30394.7030609@sarai.net> Please resdpond directly. wishes, sadan. CALL FOR PAPERS - In-Spire, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2007 http://www.in-spire.org/ In-spire, a post-graduate e-journal concerned with cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences based at the Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, United Kingdom seeks contributions, essays, book reviews and interviews for its Spring 2007 [Vol. 2, No. 1] issue: Beyond Critiques & Deconstruction As a method of critique, deconstruction has provided an avenue for realizing scholarship outside of the traditional canon. While deconstruction has instigated other erudition to be pursued, there is nevertheless a schism between critique and practice. What is there beyond critique? How can one move beyond imagining and arguing in order to contribute to the practical implementation of interdisciplinary practices? What gives 'beyond critique' the credibility or legitimacy to implement new ideas? The quest of 'beyond critique' is not only to provide evidence with valid criticism, but also how to construct criticism that is "radically innovative" so as to accept or reject deconstruction. The new issue of In-Spire will seek explore how intersectionality of ideas and practices shapes 'beyond critique' to rethink new/radical ways of philosophical positioning from a range of perspectives in practice (e.g.: ethics, critical legal, socio-legal, anthropology, environment, politics, media and communications, security studies, gender, criminology). The articles should help our understanding of the compelling 'beyond' critiques of inclusion and exclusion, which undermine all or most claims to empirical "truth". Abstracts between 250-300 words must accompany the essays. Papers invited from postgraduate research students in all branches of the social sciences. Last date for submissions is 30th March 2007. Please visit the website regarding submission guidelines: http://www.in-spire.org/guidelines.html Email contributions as attachments in RTF or DOC format with Ins07 in the subject line to: r.dasgupta at in-spire.org For information on book reviews, contact: Lucinda J. Thompson - l.j.thompson at pol.keele.ac.uk For general inquiries, contact: Rohee Dasgupta - r.dasgupta at pol.keele.ac.uk Mailing Address: Co-editors In-spire E-Journal of Politics, International Relations & Environment C/O SPIRE Research Institute of Law, Politics & Justice Chancellors Building, Keele University ST5 5BG, U.K. For more information visit: http://www.in-spire.org/current.html © 2007 In-spire ISSN 1753-4453 _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From iram at sarai.net Thu Feb 15 13:38:20 2007 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:38:20 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] The Power and the Glory: Giorgio Agamben Message-ID: <45D414F4.8080908@sarai.net> Dear all, video of Prof Giorgio Agamben's lecture - The Power and the Glory - is available for download at http://www.v2v.cc/v2v/The_Power_and_the_Glory It is 11th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi on Thursday, 11th of January, 2007. Prof Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in particular with language and social conflicts. He teaches at the Universita IUAV di Venezia, College International de Philosophie, Paris. Best Iram _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From safar.delhi at gmail.com Thu Feb 15 18:22:26 2007 From: safar.delhi at gmail.com (Safar Delhi) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:22:26 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Kamleshwar and Hindi mein media lekhan Message-ID: A discussion on KAMLESHWAR AND HINDI MEIN MEDIA LEKHAN Main Speakers: Prabhat Ranjan Ravikant Date: Sunday, 18 February 2007 11 AM Venue: Manoranjan Kaksha Delhi Administration Flats Timarpur, Delhi-110054 About the Speakers Prabhat Ranjan is a Litterateur and editor of 'Alochna', a Hindi journal published by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. He was also the editor of 'Bahubachan', journal of Mahatma Gandhi Antarashtriya Hindi Vishvwidyalaya, currently teaches Hindi in Delhi University Ravikant is a Historian, writer and translator, co-edited 'Translating Partition', also co-editor of Deewan-E-Sarai. He is currently working on Language, technology and Media in Sarai-CSDS. Nearest metro stn. Vishwvidyalaya You are cordially invited. -- SAFAR a collective journey of researchers, journalists, students, lawyers, activists, cultural practitioners and performing artists with a deep commitment to the ideals of social and gender equality. This an open space for the dialogue, betterment and empowerment of the marginalized. http://www.freewebs.com/safarindia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tout art est en exil » (Any art is an exile), monograph, éditions Centre national des arts plastiques et isthme éditions, La Défense, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34411-tit--Chohreh-Feyzdjou-Tout-art-est-en-exil -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (14/02/2007) Publication: "La condition captive" (The captive condition), Christine Groult , éditions TraceLabel, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34412-tit--La-condition-captive-Christine-Groult -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (14/02/2007) Publication: archee, cybermensuel, February_2007, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34413-tit--archee-cybermensuel-fevrier-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (14/02/2007) Program: February-June 2007, the semi-annual program of the room of conferences of Ensba, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34417-tit--fevrier-juin-2007-le-programme -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (14/02/2007) Job: Public Relations, la compagnie, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34418-tit--un-e-mediateur-trice-la-compagnie- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (14/02/2007) Formation: Photographs, a cycle of formation organized by les Rencontres d’Arles en Avril 2007, Arles, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34419-tit-Formation-Photographie-un-cycle-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (14/02/2007) Job: Press Relations, la compagnie, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34420-tit--un-e-charge-e-de-presse-la-compagnie- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (14/02/2007) Various: andea.fr, the site of the Association of the principals of art-school, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34424-tit-Divers-andea-fr-le-site-de-l-Association -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (14/02/2007) Various: “Support for the independent Editors and the literary reviews”, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34425-tit-Divers-Soutien-aux-Editeurs-independants -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (14/02/2007) Call: Polylogue 2007, Polylogue association, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34426-tit--Polylogue-2007-association-Polylogue- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (14/02/2007) Call: Participation for Anonymous Drawings 5, bluetenweiss, Raum fuer Kunst, Berlin, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34427-tit--Participation-for-Anonymous-Drawings-5- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (14/02/2007) Call: artopi projections 2007 #1, artopi association, Ales, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34428-tit--artopi-projections-2007-1-artopi -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (14/02/2007) Call: 2nd International NoBudget VideoFilmfestival Heilbronn/Weimar, Heilbronn, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34430-tit--2nd-International-NoBudget -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (14/02/2007) Call: traduction en français pour DVblog - translation in french for DVblog, Tel Aviv, Israel. http://pourinfos.org/art-34431-tit--traduction-en-francais-pour-DVblog- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (14/02/2007) Call: two open calls for papers and project proposals, Urban Screens Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34432-tit--two-open-calls-for-papers-and-project -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (14/02/2007) Call: Six Cities Design Festival, Generator Projects, Dundee, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34433-tit--Six-Cities-Design-Festival-Generator -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (14/02/2007) Call: For new musical scene and new showroom, Nantes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34434-tit--Pour-nouvelle-scene-musicale-et-nouvelle -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (14/02/2007) Call: Le Web Flash Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34435-tit--Le-Web-Flash-Festival-Centre-Pompidou- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (14/02/2007) Call: Call for Papers: Import/Export, Octopus, A Visual Studies Journal, University of California, Irvine, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34436-tit--Call-for-Papers-Import-Export-Octopus- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (14/02/2007) Call: 3rd OK.VIDEO, Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia. http://pourinfos.org/art-34437-tit--3rd-OK-VIDEO-Jakarta-International-Video -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (15/02/2007) Exhibition: « Aller retour virtuel » (To go back to the virtual), Collective exhibition, Mains d’oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34279-tit--Aller-retour-virtuel-exposition -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (15/02/2007) Meetings: Phill Niblock, Concert-conference, Espace Multimedia Gantner, Bourogne, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34330-tit--Phill-Niblock-Concert-conference-Espace -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (15/02/2007) Meetings: Societe Realiste présente PONZI'S,Thursday February 15, the General, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34399-tit--Societe-Realiste-presente-PONZI-S-jeudi -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (15/02/2007) Meetings: Political economy of the numerical edition, February 15, 2007, ENS lsh, Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34403-tit--Economie-politique-de-l-edition -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (16/02/2007) Meetings: Seminar Natan Karczmar, Maurice Benayoun, Friday February 16, 2007,Maison de l'architecture ancien couvent des Récollets, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34406-tit-Rencontre-Seminaire-Natan-Karczmar- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 034 (17/02/2007) Meetings: In vino Poiesis et veritas 3, cycle (creativity, a stake of social transformation?) "la créativité, un enjeu de transformation sociale ?", Saturday February 17, 2007, Maison de l'architecture , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34400-tit--In-vino-Poiesis-et-veritas-3-cycle-la -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 035 (17/02/2007) Screening: dialogue n°5, est-ce une bonne nouvelle, bureau des Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34415-tit--dialogue-n-5-est-ce-une-bonne-nouvelle- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 036 (17/02/2007) Call: Call to creative, graphic designers, 17 February 18, 2007, Candidatures unitaires 31, campagne Bove, au Larzac, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34429-tit--Appel-aux-creatifs-graphistes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 037 (18/02/2007) Exhibition: he Mountain that we seek is in the cristal room,Tetsumi Kudo, Maison Rouge Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34182-tit--La-Montagne-que-nous-cherchons-est-dans -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 038 (18/02/2007) Screening: Cycle Histoires to laugh at it, Documentaire sur Grand Écran, February 18 to April 22, 2007, au Cinema des Cineastes, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34346-tit--Cycle-Histoires-d-en-rire-Documentaire -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 039 (21/02/2007) Exphibition: Georges-Tony Stoll, [42X60] association , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34280-tit--Georges-Tony-Stoll-42X60- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From octave at bol.net.in Fri Feb 16 00:33:56 2007 From: octave at bol.net.in (Sanjay Kak) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:33:56 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Ms Jogi The intention was to have people read the Open Letter. To give some of them pleasure. And to give some others a chance to condemn the letter and its author. Is that enough reason? Sorry don¹t have more at this time. Best regards Sanjay ------ Forwarded Message > From: Vedavati Jogi > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:28 +0000 > To: octave at bol.net.in > Subject: RE: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul > Dravid By Shamsul Islam > > dear mr. kak, > > may i know your intention behind forwarding this letter to reader-list? > > i condemn this letter & the author! > > vedavati > > >> From: Sanjay Kak >> To: Sarai Reader List >> Subject: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul >> Dravid By Shamsul Islam >> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:54:52 +0530 >> >> An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul Dravid >> >> By Shamsul Islam >> >> 13 February, 2007 >> Countercurrents.org >> >> Dear Rahul Dravid, >> >> Namaskar! >> >> You, presently, lead the cricket team of India and wear the National Flag, >> Tri-colour while playing for India in different parts of the globe. You >> must >> be well aware of the fact that this Tri-colour represents a >> Secular-Democratic India and team led by you which includes players from >> different religions and regions of the country, undoubtedly, symbolize the >> same reality. I hope you are familiar with the glorious heritage which the >> National Flag and a Secular-Democratic polity represent. These are the >> products of great anti-colonial struggle and ruthless fight against >> theocratic politics represented by organizations like the Muslim League, >> the >> RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha. Despite the partition of India on the basis of >> religion mainly forced by Muslim League and dastardly killing of Father of >> the Nation by persons affiliated to the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS, India >> chose to remain a non-theocratic state. That is the significance of the >> Nation which you and your team represent and the Flag which you display on >> your costumes. >> >> I am sorry to write that by participating in the birth centenary programme >> of M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), the ideologue of the RSS, in Nagpur on January >> 20, 2007, you have not only violated the trust which this country has put >> in >> you but also saddened large sections of your fans who love and adore you >> because you and your team represent a Secular-Democratic India. According >> to >> a report which appeared in the Hindi organ of the RSS, Panchjanya (February >> 4, 2007, p.11), 'Indian cricket captain inaugurated the Surya Namaskar >> Mahayagya programme in the Vidarbh region (of Masharashtra)'. This campaign >> was organized by RSS 'to commemorate the birth centenary of Shri Guruji' >> who >> happened to be the second chief and the most prominent ideologue of the >> RSS.The cover page of Panchjanya also shows you lightening the lamp before >> the garlanded photograph of Golwalkar. >> >> I do not know who led you to join this programme of the RSS but I feel >> duty-bound to bring to your notice few crucial facts about the RSS and >> Guruji who led it from 1940 to 1973. >> >> The first Home Minister of independent India, Sardar Patel, held the RSS >> responsible for the assassination of Gandhiji. He in a letter to Golwalkar, >> dated 11 September 1948, clearly stated that it was communal poison spread >> by the RSS which was responsible for this tragedy. Without mincing words he >> wrote: 'As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the >> sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji. Even an iota of the sympathy >> of the Government, or of the people, no more remained for the RSS. In fact >> opposition grew. Opposition turned more severe, when the RSS men expressed >> joy and distributed sweets after Gandhiji's death.' I hope you know that >> consequently the RSS was banned for its role in the assassination. >> >> Dear Rahul Saheb! Golwalkar whose birthday centenary programme you >> inaugurated was a die-hard fascist who rejected any talk of a >> democratic-secular India. In 1939 he penned a terrible book We or Our >> Nationhood Defined which ousted minorities like Muslims and Christians from >> the Indian nationhood. Even after Independence, in another book his Bunch >> of >> Thoughts, Golwalkar declared Muslims as enemy number one and Christians as >> enemy number two of the country. I wish you had boycotted such a programme >> as you can vouch to the fact that many Muslim and Christian players playing >> cricket with you have done proud to the nation. >> >> Golwalkar also glorified dictators like Mussolini and Hitler and insisted >> on >> adopting their methods for cleansing minorities in India. In his 1939 book >> while eulogizing Hitler he wrote: 'German race pride has now become the >> topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture,Germany >> shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races - the >> Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also >> shown how wellnigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having >> differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a >> good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.' It is really >> astonishing that a renowned sportsperson like you went to be part of >> programmes dedicated to such a nasty person. >> >> I also would like to draw your attention to what RSS thinks about the >> Tri-colour which you so proudly wear. When the Indian Parliament decided to >> have Tri-colour as the National Flag, the English organ of the RSS, >> Organizer, ('Mystery behind the Bhagwa Dhawaj', August 14, 1947) denigrated >> this great choice in the following words: 'The people who have come to >> power >> by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never [sic] >> be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and >> a >> flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological >> effect and is injurious to a country'. The RSS has been demanding the >> adoption of saffron flag as the National Flag of the country. It also needs >> to be known that when the Constituent Assembly of India finally passed the >> Constitution on 26 November 1949, the RSS demanded that it should be >> replaced by the Codes of Manu (Organizer November 30, 1949) which openly >> glorified Casteism, upheld persecution of Untouchables and denigrated >> women. >> >> Dear Mr. Rahul! You went to commemorate the birth centenary of a RSS leader >> who hated democracy and declared (while addressing the top cadres of the >> RSS >> at its Reshambagh headquarters, Nagpur in 1940) that Hindu India of his >> dreams needed only 'one flag (saffron), one leader and one ideology'. >> >> Let me end with the hope that a great cricketer like you who stands as a >> symbol of Democratic-Secular India will not betray the trust the country >> has >> shown in you and fall prey to the designs of Hindu Separatism. >> >> Wishing you all the best. >> >> Shamsul Islam. >> >> February 6, 2007. >> notointolerance at hotmail.com >> >> >> You can see this page at: >> http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-islam130207.htm >> >> _________________________________________ >> reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. >> Critiques & Collaborations >> To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe >> in the subject header. >> To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >> List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Share your story and get it featured on MSN > http://content.msn.co.in/Contribute/Default.aspx ------ End of Forwarded Message From s_kavula at yahoo.com Thu Feb 15 22:04:42 2007 From: s_kavula at yahoo.com (saraswati) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:34:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Energy Options for India: Some questions Message-ID: <803004.80423.qm@web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Energy Options: Some questions for the Scientific Community and the Economists: In a recent lecture at the Institute of Engineers, Hyderabad; by an Imported (from America) Civil Engineer (sponsored by the Nuclear Lobby in America, as mentioned by him – “I am paid 10,000 dollars to conduct these silly lectures), who talked about “Nuclear Energy” being the future for India’s energy requirement (He had nothing to do either with Nuclear Energy production or Nuclear Physics); there have been mixed responses. Chief among them were – whether Nuclear Energy is a safe option, whether it is a renewable resource and most importantly, there was one gentleman who kept saying there is a need for Nuclear Energy in order to protect the farmer from committing suicides due to a shortage of electricity. (His take was that since there was no power, the farmers are unable to irrigate their lands from their tube wells. That there are many more fundamental reasons with regards to agricultural policies behind farmers deaths is another issue). Speaking about the safety of Nuclear Plants vis-à-vis Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in Tamil Nadu and its situation during the Tsunami, the chief designer of Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant spoke about how strong the safety norms were in Kalpakkam and how the safety precautions were better in India than in the USA. He also added that everyday there are at least 10-15 people dying in road accidents in Hyderabad, so the tally is any day better in the Nuclear Industry. My question to this gentleman and others is: someone dying in a road accident is an accident, caused involuntarily. Knowing fully well, that Nuclear Industry right from Mining, to Processing, Energy Generation, and (worst of all) – the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, that took speed with Indo-US Nuclear agreement; (not to forget the recent incident of theft of Uranium from the Jadugoda mines, whose final destination one cannot know about); Considering all these factors, with full knowledge that all this can cause death and destruction; if we say, well people die anyways, so why not just NUKE them out – then aren’t we collaborators in MURDER? Even if it was just ten people or one person who dies because of the Nuclear Establishment, most often, an ignorant villager / miner who knows nothing about Nuclear Science; isn’t it MURDER by the NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENT? By all those who are professing Nuclear Energy as the option, please think, if you or I have any right to Kill even one human being in the name of Development, while we, the well healed, the middle class, enjoy the fruits of their sacrifice? Do we have a right to ask the soldiers of Development (the miners and other such sacrificial goats) to sacrifice their lives for us, us who will not make a small sacrifice like shutting off our TV sets, or our Water Heaters in order to save energy? In the same vein, I want to question all the scientists – “How many of you will send your children to work in the Uranium Mines as Miners? And ask them to take it up as a career option?” The day you do that, you may speak about Nuclear Energy being the option for India or for any other country. The day you and I are willing to live next to a Tailing Pond of a Uranium Mine, we should speak about Nuclear Energy. Everyone keeps harping about France, France does not mine its Uranium in its own territory – some poor fellows in Africa are paying the price for France’s “Energy Options”. The American Indians became the sacrificial lambs in the United States’ avarice for a Nuclear Dominance. In this day of “Collateral Damages” I suppose, what I speak seems like archaic bullshit. But before development or anything else, what separate human beings from Animals are a code of ethics and the principles of humane behaviour. I think we need to rethink who we are and where we are going. The Second Big Question everyone asks is: if we do not use Nuclear Energy, then we will head for an Energy crisis. I wish to ask first of all, is this Nuclear Energy and everlasting resource? There was something one scientist spoke in a discussion in New Delhi recently, that they are simulating the same reactions which are happening in the SUN, in order to generate Energy. My question to him was, “Why don’t you use the SUN directly, instead of going through this round about way?” His answer, ‘We can use solar energy, we can use a solar cooker, solar heater and solar lamp, but how many of us are doing that”. I asked him, “Are you using a solar cooker?” He replied in the negative. Coming back to our present lecture, I recounted this incident to the Chief designer of Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant; his answer was “It is too expensive and there is not so much funding!” My question is, “What about all that subsidy, which is doled out to the Nuclear Industry in India, which has spent at least hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees and generated meager 3.1% electricity?” My neighbour wants to purchase a solar water heater, but she doesn’t want to buy it because there is no subsidy. There are numerous ways in which we can generate the money we need, if we have the will we can abandon the 9000 crore Metro rail project(s) (now they are planning this in every city in India, so you can multiply that 9000 with 10-15 or what ever number of cities they are planning to implement the Metro); and use a cheaper option of Public Transport like a good Bus system or the MMTS trains. Our governments do not have money to give 200 crores to the RTC to purchase 500 buses, but they have the money to pay 9000 crores to spend on the Metro Rail. They don’t want to spend 400 crores for improving the MMTS, but have 9000 crores to spend on the Metro Rail. So, if we can avoid the Metro Rail in all our cities (Delhi being an exception, since there is a Metro already), there will be a lot of money available for renewable energy resources like Solar Energy and Wind Energy. The most important question we need to ask ourselves: What has been the paradigm of development that we have been following? We know we are heading for an energy crisis then, why are we increasing and introducing Energy Intensive forms of “Development”? Here are a few examples: Retail Super stores like WALMART and Reliance are not really a “Development” requirement. When I buy vegetables from the neighbourhood vegetable vendor, I am using less energy – the vegetables are brought from a nearby village in a lorry or more often, the vendors bring them in Public Transport buses. The vendors walk around the city on their Push Wheel Carts – No pollution or energy use at all. In earlier times, we carried our own bags, so no plastic either. Now plastic carry bags have increased the energy usage of this traditional marketing system. Since there is no cold storage or packaging involved, no energy is used, and besides we know that what we see, is what it is, if it is four days old vegetable or fruit it shows – in effect, we buy more fresh vegetables in this system. Now take a typical super market in Europe or America, which we are trying to bring into India. First we need to build a huge building – energy is used in the manufacture of cement, bricks, mortar, and even the construction (since manual labour is getting phased out). Then, the building uses a lot of electrical appliances and of course air-conditioning. Then packaging (because otherwise things do not look so good) and carry bags with the labels of Reliance or WALMART– again another industry which manufactures the plastic and then the energy used in packaging industry. Most importantly – Cold Storage and Transportation: because in a superstore one can buy anything: bananas from Costa Rica to American Sweet Corn, Fruits from Australia, what ever. Can you imagine the amount of energy that is used in this entire process – as electricity, as petrol among others? Then, another consideration – bananas in their natural state last about a few days to a week may be. But to bring bananas from Costa Rica or West Indies to Scandinavia, will at least take a couple of days from the farm to the ship, and then another 10-15 days on the ship and then from there to the store in another day or two. How will bananas last this long? By artificial means – using “IRRADIATION”. In effect, the cost of energy and then finally the “nuked” bananas don’t justify the whole fanciful idea of buying inside a “posh” looking supermarket. In the UK, in order to save energy, people started to buy local food from local farmers. So, that must be giving WALMART and their likes a run for their money, so they descend on countries like India, where, we the middle class feel, we are “Developed” if we buy from an Energy Intensive Super Store, rather than our friendly neighbourhood vegetable vendor. Because getting down from your car in front of a street vendor doesn’t add to your status. Speaking of Cars – if only if we had a good system of Public Transport and used less cars and motorbikes, so much energy would have been saved! Not just in the direct saving of petrol, but in reducing the number of cars manufactured, we reduce the mining, and manufacturing thus saving tons of energy! Another example: take Hyderabad – we had a river called Musi that provided us with drinking water. We polluted it, polluted all our lakes, all water resources, and now we are using Five Lifts to pump water from Krishna River and transport it over 150 kms to bring water to Hyderabad. If only we can stop this nonsense of allowing pollution of our water bodies by the industry we could have saved all that energy which is being spent everyday to bring water to Hyderabad. Now the villages in downstream area which earlier drank water from the Musi River are being supplied the same Krishna Water through tankers. The tankers go almost daily from Hyderabad to these villages. One tanker goes to about 10 villages. There are nearly 50-60 villages like these. Now one tanker uses 100-150 liters of diesel in a day and that is almost 54,750 litres in 365 days! Can we assess the amount of energy costs we are paying for the pollution caused by energy intensive Industry (which is supposed to bring development to us)? All the agriculture, fisheries in this area has suffered enormously. At the end of the day, it is the urban people and the Industry who are demanding more and more energy – and has the Industry been able to replace Agriculture as the Majority Employment Provider? No, not yet, but it may take over, for soon, we may be left with no good agricultural land to grow our crops, as we continue to follow this ENERGY INTENSIVE developmental model that thinks that the Small Car (Energy consuming once again) of TATA’s which will provide employment to 2000 people in 10 years time, has a right to occupy 1000 hectares of prime agricultural land that is currently providing employment to 10,000 people and make them destitutes! We can save tons of energy, doing away with 24 hour TV (when people watch less TV, so much power gets saved). In any case TV is doling out trash that psyches the minds of the young generation, making them buy more and more, increasing consumerism, and thus increasing mining and manufacturing to produce goods for this artificial demand created by the Media. When we follow these measures, we will surely be able to provide enough power to our farmers! We cave save lot of energy that is wasted by lighting up trees on the Tankbund, by cutting down on energy used in Entertainment shows/ Fashion Shows (while we put a curb on the power used by the farmers, there is no curb on the energy used in these shows!) The list is endless there fore, the need for more energy comes from all these factors, and there fore we demand for NUCLEAR ENERGY as the option, even if it means we kill our own people, right now and in future! It doesn’t matter that our own governments are killing innocent people in the name of Development – I am beginning to wonder – are we living in a democracy? So, there fore, while on the one hand we kill farmers by displacing them to make way for energy intensive projects; we kill adivasis in the name of providing electricity to the farmers by way of Nuclear Energy. That the farmers are committing suicides due to the consequences of green revolution, World Bank Policies, WTO, Monsanto, Pesticide and Fertilizer Industry is another issue. But once again, the Monsantos and Dow Chemicals of the world need to be protected and provided precious Energy, so that they can kill poor, illiterate farmers who earlier were using “No Energy” or “Low Energy” form of traditional agriculture; and who were made to convert to this “High Energy Intensive” form of chemical farming. Forced to dig tubewells and unable to pay the high power bills, Or, unable to use the water from the tubewells due to power shortages; while the Industry is provided fresh water at its doorstep; which doesn’t have the decency to release clean, unpolluted water into the environment. Sure enough, farmers will continue to commit suicides as we provide more money and more ENERGY for airports in every small town of this country, while a village will continue to suffer without a regular bus or a proper road. We do have our priorities – and the poor must become the scapegoats of this development of ours, while we continue to debate on such issues inside the comforts of air-conditioned rooms, zipping away in our fancy cars, while we listen to music from an i-pod! Sure enough, we have got our priorities right! Saraswati Kavula ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 From sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in Fri Feb 16 23:02:51 2007 From: sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in (S Fatima) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:32:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] truth about Aurangzeb Message-ID: <20070216173251.93797.qmail@web8415.mail.in.yahoo.com> The truth about Aurangzeb Francois Gautier February 16, 2007 FACT, the Trust which I head, is holding an exhibition on 'Aurangzeb as he was according to Mughal documents', from February 16 to 20 at New Delhi's Habitat Center, the Palm Court Gallery, from 10 am to 9 pm. Why an exhibition on Aurangzeb, some may ask. Firstly, I have been a close student of Indian history, and one of its most controversial figures has been Aurangzeb (1658-1707). It is true that under him the Mughal empire reached its zenith, but Aurangzeb was also a very cruel ruler � some might even say monstrous. What are the facts? Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishwanath temple, one of the most sacred places of Hinduism, and had mosques built on a number of cleared temple sites. Other Hindu sacred places within his reach equally suffered destruction, with mosques built on them. A few examples: Krishna's birth temple in Mathura; the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujarat; the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares; and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. The number of temples destroyed by Aurangzeb is counted in four, if not five figures. Aurangzeb did not stop at destroying temples, their users were also wiped out; even his own brother Dara Shikoh was executed for taking an interest in Hindu religion; Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded because he objected to Aurangzeb's forced conversions. Yet, Percival Spear, co-author with Romila Thapar of the prestigious A History of India (Penguin), writes: 'Aurangzeb's supposed intolerance is little more than a hostile legend based on isolated acts such as the erection of a mosque on a temple site in Benares.' L'histoire de l'Inde moderne (Fayard), the French equivalent of Percival Spear's history of India, praises Aurangzeb and says, 'He has been maligned by Hindu fundamentalists'. Even Indian politicians are ignorant of Aurangzeb's evil deeds. Nehru might have known about them, but for his own reasons he chose to keep quiet and instructed his historians to downplay Aurangzeb's destructive drive and instead praise him as a benefactor of arts. Since then six generations of Marxist historians have done the same and betrayed their allegiance to truth. Very few people know for instance that Aurangzeb banned any kind of music and that painters had to flee his wrath and take refuge with some of Rajasthan's friendly maharajahs. Thus, we thought we should get at the root of the matter. History (like journalism) is about documentation and first-hand experience. We decided to show Aurangzeb according to his own documents. There are an incredible number of farhans, original edicts of Aurangzeb hand-written in Persian, in India's museums, particularly in Rajasthan, such as the Bikaner archives. It was not always easy to scan them, we encountered resistance, sometimes downright hostility and we had to go once to the chief minister to get permission. Indeed, the director of Bikaner archives told us that in 50 years we were the first ones asking for the farhans dealing with Aurangzeb's destructive deeds. Then we asked painters from Rajasthan to reproduce in the ancient Mughal style some of the edicts: the destruction of Somnath temple; the trampling of Hindus protesting jaziya tax by Aurangzeb's elephants; or the order from Aurangzeb prohibiting Hindus to ride horses and palanquins; or the beheading of Teg Bahadur and Dara Shikoh. People might say: 'OK, this is all true, Aurangzeb was indeed a monster, but why rake up the past, when we have tensions between Muslims and Hindus today?' There are two reasons for this exhibition. The first is that no nation can move forward unless its children are taught to look squarely at their own history, the good and the bad, the evil and the pure. The French, for instance, have many dark periods in their history, more recently some of the deeds they did during colonisation in North Africa or how they collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and handed over French Jews who died in concentration camps (the French are only now coming to terms with it). The argument that looking at one's history will pit a community against the other does not hold either: French Catholics and Protestants, who share a very similar religion, fought each other bitterly. Catholics brutally murdered thousands of Protestants in the 18th century; yet today they live peacefully next to each other. France fought three wars with Germany in the last 150 years, yet they are great friends today. Let Hindus and Muslims then come to terms with what happened under Aurangzeb, because Muslims suffered as much as Hindus. It was not only Shah Jahan or Dara Shikoh who were murdered, but also the forefathers of today's Indian Muslims who have been converted at 90 per cent. Aurangzeb was the Hitler, the asura of medieval India. No street is named after Hitler in the West, yet in New Delhi we have Aurangzeb Road, a constant reminder of the horrors Aurangzeb perpetrated against Indians, including his own people. Finally, Aurangzeb is very relevant today because he thought that Sunni Islam was the purest form of his religion and he sought to impose it with ruthless efficiency -- even against those of his own faith, such as his brother. Aurangzeb clamped down on the more syncretic, more tolerant Islam, of the Sufi kind, which then existed in India. But he did not fully succeed. Four centuries later, is he going to have the last word? I remember, when I started covering Kashmir in the late '70s, that Islam had a much more open face. The Kashmir Muslim, who is also a descendant of converted Hindus, might have thought that Allah was the only true God, but he accepted his Kashmiri Pandit neighbour, went to his or her marriage, ate in his or her house and the Hindu in turn went to the mosque. Women used to walk with open faces, watch TV, films. Then the shadow of Aurangzeb fell on Kashmir and the hardline Sunnis came from Pakistan and Afghanistan: cinemas were banned, the burqa imposed, 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were chased out of Kashmir through violence and became refugees in their own land and the last Sufi shrine of Sharar-e-Sharif was burnt to the ground (I was there). Today the Shariat has been voted in Kashmir, a state of democratic, secular India, UP's Muslims have applauded, and the entire Indian media which went up in flames when the government wanted Vande Mataram to be sung, kept quiet. The spirit of Aurangzeb seems to triumph. But what we need today in India -- and indeed in the world -- is a Dara Shikoh, who reintroduces an Islam which, while believing in the supremacy of its Prophet, not only accepts other faiths, but is also able to see the good in each religion, study them, maybe create a synthesis. Islam needs to adapt its scriptures which were created nearly 15 centuries ago for the people and customs of these times, but which are not necessarily relevant in some of their injunctions today. Kabir, Dara Shikoh and some of the Sufi saints attempted this task, but failed. Aurangzeb knew what he was doing when he had his own brother beheaded. And we know what we are saying when we say that this exhibition is very relevant to today's India. May the Spirit of Dara Shikoh come back to India and bring back Islam to a more tolerant human face. Francois Gautier http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/feb/16francois.htm __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From zainab at xtdnet.nl Sat Feb 17 01:18:28 2007 From: zainab at xtdnet.nl (zainab at xtdnet.nl) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:48:28 +0400 (RET) Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Annoucement- Sunday. Feb 11. Blank Noise Bangalore In-Reply-To: References: <277f58b70702060110j2fd4d470v8fc2d5e2ad15fcf4@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070927x542172b0xc279d65df9aad029@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070929u6d25ff57m4248c0758c2a5365@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070930ke2ea90ey315e205c88bb7754@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8612.202.56.231.116.1171655308.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> Hello Jasmeen and the Blank Noise team, Why don't you sometime come to Thilaknagar? It is a different space from that of Brigade Road and the experience of eve teasing is different here. Looking forward, Zainab > Who we are, where we go, what we wear, how we > sit, stand, talk, walk in our very own cities. When we demand the need to > make our cities non threatening , I don't expect anyone to think of me as > their sister or mother, but to really look at women as citizens who have > every right to be out on the streets, without any explanation. Sometimes > we > just love to walk, stand around, hang around, without looking 'available.' > > Blank Noise Bangalore calls > you! > > Intervene the streets of your city on Sunday Feb 11 > > By participating you will be celebrated as a BNP Action Hero! > > We guarantee that this action won't ask you to be acrobatic, but to be > yourself, and experience the site you act upon transform. Be the stimuli, > be > an action hero. > > In the past we have appeared in thirties and forties...this time, what if > we > were a 100? > > Confirm /ask us questions at 98868 40612. This street intervention will be > approximately 1.5 hours ( 5 - 6 30 pm) > > To sign up mail us at blurtblanknoise at gmail.com, subject titled ACTION > HERO, > BANGALORE. Any one can volunteer to work behind the scenes/ run around and > get this going! > > Thankyou! > > The Blank Noise Team > _______________________________________________ > announcements mailing list > announcements at sarai.net > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> Zainab Bawa Bombay www.xanga.com/CityBytes http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html From Helen.Wewiora at cornerhouse.org Sat Feb 17 05:01:33 2007 From: Helen.Wewiora at cornerhouse.org (Helen Wewiora) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:31:33 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] [call] The Bigger Picture Announces International Call for Commissions + Calls for papers & projects for Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 References: Message-ID: Three calls: 1) The Bigger Picture Announces International Call for Major Public Realm Commissions 2) Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 Call for Papers 3) Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 Call for Projects THE BIGGER PICTURE ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR MAJOR PUBLIC REALM COMMISSIONS National UK commissioning and production partners: Cornerhouse (Manchester), ENTER_ (Cambridge), Lumen (Leeds) & Site Gallery (Sheffield), with support from BBC, funded by Arts Council England DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS Friday 30 March 2007 The Bigger Commissions 2007, to be launched at Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 The Bigger Picture exhibits artists' film & video and interactive / participatory screen based projects on Big Screen Manchester, UK. Utilising this unique screening space, The Bigger Picture is able to present a host of artists' works to large and diverse audiences reaching beyond the traditional gallery context. Cornerhouse, working in partnership with BBC and Manchester City Council, delivers The Bigger Picture's curated programmes, whilst additionally commissioning and touring large outdoor screen-based programmes. The Bigger Picture is inviting proposals for the production of exceptional new public realm works to be launched on Big Screen Manchester at the time of the Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 (11&12 October), and to tour to partner city Big Screens and public sites throughout 2007/8. Four new works will be commissioned, each with an attached fee of £5000 (7400 EUR / 9700 USD) based on an agreed budget, of up to £10,000 for production (14,900 EUR / 19,500 USD). This is a significant opportunity for film, video, new media and cross-disciplinary artists to explore unique new ways of creating and exhibiting work for a public context. Each National Commissioning partner will lead on the production of one new work. Partners are particularly encouraging proposals of the following nature: Interactive and participatory new work Interdisciplinary new work (combined arts, performing arts, audiovisual) Evolving or expanded work New media and streaming technology Film & Video Artists previously commissioned by The Bigger Picture include Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor (desperate optimists), Kartoon Kings (Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio), plus Paul Melia, Hilary Jack, The Light Surgeons, Adele Prince and Louise K Wilson. For more information on how to submit, including key information, guidelines & submission form, and BBC technical specifications, see http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/ongoingproject.aspx?ID=2&page=45255, or partner sites listed below. Deadline for proposals 30 March 2007. Partner sites: www.cornerhouse.org www.enternet.org.uk www.lumen.org.uk www.sitegallery.org Links: www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/ www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk Big Screen Manchester, is part of a UK Big Screen network, operated by the BBC. Related Calls Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 IT'S ABOUT CONTENT 11 + 12 October 2007 www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk CALL FOR PAPERS - Closing date: March 2, 2007 The next Urban Screens Conference focuses on the development of non-commercial content for big urban displays such as LED, LCD, plasma screens, media façades and projections onto buildings. What characterises these huge displays as media platforms in urban space and which particular spatial and social situations do they create? How are they perceived? How does creative content flow from this? We will discuss - urban screens as channels for alternative public broadcasting in times of Web 2.0, YouTube, increasing broadband rates and Creative Commons. - which interactive and participatory applications could enrich urban life beyond simple entertainment. - which linear artistic productions such as animations, video, film or text suit a presentation in public space. - how displays can be integrated into the urban environment in meaningful ways. - which economies drive and limit both the implementation of urban screens in public space and the commissioning of creative content. - the evaluation of creative content with regard to how it is perceived. For the Urban Screens Conference we are looking for proposals for papers that deal with the above mentioned topics or other related fields of research. HOW TO SUBMIT Please email proposals for papers in the form of a 500 word max abstract and your/the presenter's CV by March 2, 2007 to info at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk ------ Urban Screens Conference Manchester 07 IT'S ABOUT CONTENT 11 + 12 October 2007 www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS - Closing date: March 2, 2007 The conference is accompanied by an inspiring programme of public events and exhibitions, including screening programmes as well as performance-based and participatory art projects which make use of the BBC Big Screens Network. We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects which employ one ore more permanent or temporary screen. We are particularly interested in projects - exploring web-based content and streaming media - connecting screen audiences in various places - interactive and participatory works using bodily interfaces and ubiquitous communication devices - text pieces, video and animation which suit airing on urban screens - performance-based works including audiovisual performance/VJing For detailed information on the BBC screens' system please see www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk HOW TO SUBMIT Please send project proposals in the form of a project description, illustrative material and the author's CV by March 2, 2007 to: CORNERHOUSE Urban Screens Conference 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH United Kingdom ---------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended only for the specified addressee. If you have received this email in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox and any other storage systems. 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This email and any attachments are scanned for viruses using F-Secure antivirus but Cornerhouse accepts no liability for viruses or any damage they may cause. ---------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From vrjogi at hotmail.com Sat Feb 17 08:12:11 2007 From: vrjogi at hotmail.com (Vedavati Jogi) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:42:11 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian CricketTeam Captain In-Reply-To: Message-ID: thanks for such a quick reply. i know, your letter must ave give lot of pleasure to all practising psudo secularists on the list of readers list. and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to condemn the author. ms. jogi >From: Sanjay Kak >To: Sarai Reader List >Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian >CricketTeam Captain >Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:33:56 +0530 > >Dear Ms Jogi > >The intention was to have people read the Open Letter. >To give some of them pleasure. >And to give some others a chance to condemn the letter and its author. >Is that enough reason? >Sorry don¹t have more at this time. > >Best regards > >Sanjay > >------ Forwarded Message > > From: Vedavati Jogi > > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:28 +0000 > > To: octave at bol.net.in > > Subject: RE: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain >Rahul > > Dravid By Shamsul Islam > > > > dear mr. kak, > > > > may i know your intention behind forwarding this letter to reader-list? > > > > i condemn this letter & the author! > > > > vedavati > > > > > >> From: Sanjay Kak > >> To: Sarai Reader List > >> Subject: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain >Rahul > >> Dravid By Shamsul Islam > >> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:54:52 +0530 > >> > >> An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team Captain Rahul Dravid > >> > >> By Shamsul Islam > >> > >> 13 February, 2007 > >> Countercurrents.org > >> > >> Dear Rahul Dravid, > >> > >> Namaskar! > >> > >> You, presently, lead the cricket team of India and wear the National >Flag, > >> Tri-colour while playing for India in different parts of the globe. You > >> must > >> be well aware of the fact that this Tri-colour represents a > >> Secular-Democratic India and team led by you which includes players >from > >> different religions and regions of the country, undoubtedly, symbolize >the > >> same reality. I hope you are familiar with the glorious heritage which >the > >> National Flag and a Secular-Democratic polity represent. These are the > >> products of great anti-colonial struggle and ruthless fight against > >> theocratic politics represented by organizations like the Muslim >League, > >> the > >> RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha. Despite the partition of India on the >basis of > >> religion mainly forced by Muslim League and dastardly killing of Father >of > >> the Nation by persons affiliated to the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS, >India > >> chose to remain a non-theocratic state. That is the significance of the > >> Nation which you and your team represent and the Flag which you display >on > >> your costumes. > >> > >> I am sorry to write that by participating in the birth centenary >programme > >> of M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), the ideologue of the RSS, in Nagpur on >January > >> 20, 2007, you have not only violated the trust which this country has >put > >> in > >> you but also saddened large sections of your fans who love and adore >you > >> because you and your team represent a Secular-Democratic India. >According > >> to > >> a report which appeared in the Hindi organ of the RSS, Panchjanya >(February > >> 4, 2007, p.11), 'Indian cricket captain inaugurated the Surya Namaskar > >> Mahayagya programme in the Vidarbh region (of Masharashtra)'. This >campaign > >> was organized by RSS 'to commemorate the birth centenary of Shri >Guruji' > >> who > >> happened to be the second chief and the most prominent ideologue of the > >> RSS.The cover page of Panchjanya also shows you lightening the lamp >before > >> the garlanded photograph of Golwalkar. > >> > >> I do not know who led you to join this programme of the RSS but I feel > >> duty-bound to bring to your notice few crucial facts about the RSS and > >> Guruji who led it from 1940 to 1973. > >> > >> The first Home Minister of independent India, Sardar Patel, held the >RSS > >> responsible for the assassination of Gandhiji. He in a letter to >Golwalkar, > >> dated 11 September 1948, clearly stated that it was communal poison >spread > >> by the RSS which was responsible for this tragedy. Without mincing >words he > >> wrote: 'As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the > >> sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji. Even an iota of the >sympathy > >> of the Government, or of the people, no more remained for the RSS. In >fact > >> opposition grew. Opposition turned more severe, when the RSS men >expressed > >> joy and distributed sweets after Gandhiji's death.' I hope you know >that > >> consequently the RSS was banned for its role in the assassination. > >> > >> Dear Rahul Saheb! Golwalkar whose birthday centenary programme you > >> inaugurated was a die-hard fascist who rejected any talk of a > >> democratic-secular India. In 1939 he penned a terrible book We or Our > >> Nationhood Defined which ousted minorities like Muslims and Christians >from > >> the Indian nationhood. Even after Independence, in another book his >Bunch > >> of > >> Thoughts, Golwalkar declared Muslims as enemy number one and Christians >as > >> enemy number two of the country. I wish you had boycotted such a >programme > >> as you can vouch to the fact that many Muslim and Christian players >playing > >> cricket with you have done proud to the nation. > >> > >> Golwalkar also glorified dictators like Mussolini and Hitler and >insisted > >> on > >> adopting their methods for cleansing minorities in India. In his 1939 >book > >> while eulogizing Hitler he wrote: 'German race pride has now become the > >> topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its >culture,Germany > >> shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races - the > >> Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has >also > >> shown how wellnigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having > >> differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, >a > >> good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.' It is really > >> astonishing that a renowned sportsperson like you went to be part of > >> programmes dedicated to such a nasty person. > >> > >> I also would like to draw your attention to what RSS thinks about the > >> Tri-colour which you so proudly wear. When the Indian Parliament >decided to > >> have Tri-colour as the National Flag, the English organ of the RSS, > >> Organizer, ('Mystery behind the Bhagwa Dhawaj', August 14, 1947) >denigrated > >> this great choice in the following words: 'The people who have come to > >> power > >> by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never >[sic] > >> be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, >and > >> a > >> flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad >psychological > >> effect and is injurious to a country'. The RSS has been demanding the > >> adoption of saffron flag as the National Flag of the country. It also >needs > >> to be known that when the Constituent Assembly of India finally passed >the > >> Constitution on 26 November 1949, the RSS demanded that it should be > >> replaced by the Codes of Manu (Organizer November 30, 1949) which >openly > >> glorified Casteism, upheld persecution of Untouchables and denigrated > >> women. > >> > >> Dear Mr. Rahul! You went to commemorate the birth centenary of a RSS >leader > >> who hated democracy and declared (while addressing the top cadres of >the > >> RSS > >> at its Reshambagh headquarters, Nagpur in 1940) that Hindu India of his > >> dreams needed only 'one flag (saffron), one leader and one ideology'. > >> > >> Let me end with the hope that a great cricketer like you who stands as >a > >> symbol of Democratic-Secular India will not betray the trust the >country > >> has > >> shown in you and fall prey to the designs of Hindu Separatism. > >> > >> Wishing you all the best. > >> > >> Shamsul Islam. > >> > >> February 6, 2007. > >> notointolerance at hotmail.com > >> > >> > >> You can see this page at: > >> http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-islam130207.htm > >> > >> _________________________________________ > >> reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > >> Critiques & Collaborations > >> To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with >subscribe > >> in the subject header. > >> To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > >> List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Share your story and get it featured on MSN > > http://content.msn.co.in/Contribute/Default.aspx > >------ End of Forwarded Message > >_________________________________________ >reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. >Critiques & Collaborations >To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe >in the subject header. >To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> _________________________________________________________________ Latest updates from the world of sports http://content.msn.co.in/Sports/Default From machleetank at gmail.com Sat Feb 17 12:40:04 2007 From: machleetank at gmail.com (Jasmeen P) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:40:04 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Annoucement- Sunday. Feb 11. Blank Noise Bangalore In-Reply-To: <8612.202.56.231.116.1171655308.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> References: <277f58b70702060110j2fd4d470v8fc2d5e2ad15fcf4@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070927x542172b0xc279d65df9aad029@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070929u6d25ff57m4248c0758c2a5365@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702070930ke2ea90ey315e205c88bb7754@mail.gmail.com> <8612.202.56.231.116.1171655308.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> Message-ID: Hi Zainab We do have plans of working in localities as a more sustained effort. The anonymity and diversity that Brigade road offers allows us to be confrontational, aggressive and in your face. To be anywhere outside of 'cosmopolitan' bangalore would require a different set of strategies etc. We might be working in Yelahanka sometime soon. Or have a group dedicated to dealing with sexual harassment in different urban realities, slums for instance... talk soon, Jasmeen On 2/17/07, zainab at xtdnet.nl wrote: > Hello Jasmeen and the Blank Noise team, > Why don't you sometime come to Thilaknagar? It is a different space from > that of Brigade Road and the experience of eve teasing is different here. > Looking forward, > Zainab > > > Who we are, where we go, what we wear, how we > > sit, stand, talk, walk in our very own cities. When we demand the need to > > make our cities non threatening , I don't expect anyone to think of me as > > their sister or mother, but to really look at women as citizens who have > > every right to be out on the streets, without any explanation. Sometimes > > we > > just love to walk, stand around, hang around, without looking 'available.' > > > > Blank Noise Bangalore calls > > you! > > > > Intervene the streets of your city on Sunday Feb 11 > > > > By participating you will be celebrated as a BNP Action Hero! > > > > We guarantee that this action won't ask you to be acrobatic, but to be > > yourself, and experience the site you act upon transform. Be the stimuli, > > be > > an action hero. > > > > In the past we have appeared in thirties and forties...this time, what if > > we > > were a 100? > > > > Confirm /ask us questions at 98868 40612. This street intervention will be > > approximately 1.5 hours ( 5 - 6 30 pm) > > > > To sign up mail us at blurtblanknoise at gmail.com, subject titled ACTION > > HERO, > > BANGALORE. Any one can volunteer to work behind the scenes/ run around and > > get this going! > > > > Thankyou! > > > > The Blank Noise Team > > _______________________________________________ > > announcements mailing list > > announcements at sarai.net > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements > > _________________________________________ > > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > > Critiques & Collaborations > > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > > subscribe in the subject header. > > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > > Zainab Bawa > Bombay > www.xanga.com/CityBytes > http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html > > -- ph: + 91 98868 40612 From cahen.x at levels9.com Fri Feb 16 19:44:20 2007 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:14:20 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] ))))) radiolist.org ((((( visual arts noise platform ((((( 8 Message-ID: <45D5BC3C.2050307@levels9.com> RadioList.org Plate-forme sonore des arts visuels / visual arts noise platform (((((((((.)))))))))) # 8 It's time for your french lesson ! .((((( Abonnement RSS : podcast, ipodder, sage, etc... http://radiolist.org/index.php?feed=rss2 .((((( Abonnement a la newsletter http://radiolist.org Interview-Z [3] : rencontre Bernard Desportes )))))))).(((((((((( [vlog-trotter special Tanger] Interview#1 : rencontre avec Bernard Desportes, commissaire du Salon international du livre de Tanger, Maroc. 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Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From t.ray at vsnl.com Sat Feb 17 18:37:30 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:07:30 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter ToIndianCricketTeam Captain References: Message-ID: <003b01c75294$9586b7e0$6900a8c0@Tapas> I confess as being one of those who appreciate the logic and precision of Sanjay's response to Ms Jogi's angry post. Tapas Ray > thanks for such a quick reply. > i know, your letter must ave give lot of pleasure to all practising psudo > secularists on the list of readers list. > and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to condemn the > author. > > ms. jogi >>From: Sanjay Kak >>To: Sarai Reader List >>Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian >>CricketTeam Captain >>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:33:56 +0530 >> >>Dear Ms Jogi >> >>The intention was to have people read the Open Letter. >>To give some of them pleasure. >>And to give some others a chance to condemn the letter and its author. >>Is that enough reason? >>Sorry don¹t have more at this time. >> >>Best regards >> >>Sanjay >> >>------ Forwarded Message >> > From: Vedavati Jogi >> > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:28 +0000 >> > To: octave at bol.net.in >> > Subject: RE: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team >> > Captain >>Rahul >> > Dravid By Shamsul Islam >> > >> > dear mr. kak, >> > >> > may i know your intention behind forwarding this letter to reader-list? >> > >> > i condemn this letter & the author! >> > >> > vedavati >> > >> > From zainab at xtdnet.nl Sun Feb 18 14:40:37 2007 From: zainab at xtdnet.nl (zainab at xtdnet.nl) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:10:37 +0400 (RET) Subject: [Reader-list] CSCS-SEPHIS Fellowship Message-ID: <41980.202.56.231.116.1171789837.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) offers a fellowship awarded by SEPHIS to a student from any country in the South to spend one academic year in Bangalore, India, beginning July 2007. The main purpose of the fellowship programme is to help develop alternative frameworks for research and teaching as well as new theoretical paradigms that take into account the specific experiences of non-Western societies. The student can either register with CSCS for the Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (validated by the Manipal University, Kuvempu University and Bangalore University) or register in his/her own country and do the CSCS coursework for two semesters. The Ph.D. programme's uniqueness lies in the following: - Focus on inter-disciplinarity. - Research areas at CSCS include: Culture and Colonial Histories; Law, Society, Culture; The Asian Popular; and Gender and New Pedagogies. - Emphasis on the formulation of research problems and teaching programmes in relation to democracy and cultural issues that draw on conventional disciplines but cut across their boundaries. Eligibility: A Master’s Degree in any discipline with 55% marks or its grade equivalent if the student is registering with CSCS for the Ph.D., OR proof of Ph.D. registration in any Southern university if the student is coming only for coursework. Benefits: A substantial stipend, international airfare, accommodation in Bangalore, travel costs for three weeks within India for visits to different academic institutions, tuition and other fees will be provided for. If the student registers for a PhD at CSCS, financial support available after the first year will be at par with that of other CSCS students. Current CSCS faculty are drawn from the fields of film and media studies, political theory, history, and art history, gender studies, and legal theory with a strong background in at least ten years of inter-disciplinary cultural studies. Applicants are requested to visit the CSCS websites for more information of the institution, its faculty, courses, library, etc: www.cscsban.org; www.cscsarchive.org To apply: Applications should include a sample of writing such as a term paper, a current CV, two letters of recommendation, transcripts of last two degrees obtained, and proof of eligibility. Write to Dr.Tejaswini Niranjana, Convenor, Ph.D. Committee, CSCS, 466, 9th Cross, First Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560011, India. Email: teju at cscsban.org; Telephone: 91-80-6562986; Fax: 91-80-6562991. Deadline: Complete applications must reach CSCS by March 21, 2007. E-mail and fax applications are acceptable only if followed by a hard copy sent by airmail or courier. Candidates will be informed of the outcome by March 31, 2007. The CSCS academic year begins in the last week of July. Zainab Bawa Bombay www.xanga.com/CityBytes http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html From vivek at sarai.net Mon Feb 19 10:52:15 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:52:15 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Spoken Word at British Council, Delhi Message-ID: <45D93407.60401@sarai.net> British Council invites you to a Spoken Word Performance By John Hegley and Anjum Hasan 7 pm on Tuesday, 20th February 2007 at the British Council 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110 001 The performance will be followed by a reception There is strict security at the British Council. To add your name to the Guest List, you can do one of three things, before 3 pm tomorrow: 1) Contact Shubha Patvardhan at 41497322 2)Email Shubha Patvardhan at Shubha.Patvardhan at in.britishcouncil.org 3) Send an SMS with your name, asking to be added to the guest list, to my number: 98109 36654 Like a kind of twenty-first century Ogden Nash, John Hegley’s reputation is as an endlessly inventive comic poet, always ready with teasing, quirky wordplay and rhymes, delightful for adults and children alike. But Hegley exceeds Nash in many ways: his poems are often not laugh-out-loud funny, but deeper, subtle and tinged with the sadness and surprise of everyday life; on stage, the poems are interwoven with storytelling and song. For many years Hegley worked as a bus conductor, a social security clerk and a nurse in a mental hospital. Now he is one of Britain’s top performers, and the author of nine books of poetry / prose / lyrics / drawings and one mug. Anjum Hasan’s poems seek real beauty in the ordinary, the insignificant, the half-remembered. Often set in small towns like Shillong (where she was born and grew up) with their cast of longing dreamers, drifters and has-beens, they search for the link between landscape and emotion. In performance, she recites from memory in a sharp and haunting style. Hasan’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Poetry from Asia and the Middle East; her first collection, Street on the Hill, was released last year by Sahitya Akademi. From vivek at sarai.net Mon Feb 19 10:56:06 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:56:06 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] VN, Poems, Mumbay Message-ID: <45D934EE.6010505@sarai.net> Dear all, I'm doing a few poetry reading/performances from my work in Mumbay, in February and March. Here's the lineup: Wednesday, February 21: Chauraha, NCPA (See below for full announcement) Sunday, February 25: At Kitab festival, Prithvi Theatre, 2pm: Short (15 mins) reading with three other writers-- Jackie Kay, Jane Bhandari, and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Part of all-day poetry readings at Prithvi. Saturday, March 10: Full length reading/performance for PEN at Prithvi, Prithvi Theatre; more details to follow closer to the date. Universal Beach English Poetry Reading Audio Visual Room Wed. 21st – 6.30 pm This is a CHAURAHA presentation. Vivek Narayanan will read and perform poems from his first collection, Universal Beach (Harbour Line, 2006), as well as poems from his second collection in progress, entitled Lectures in Indian History. Born in Ranchi in 1972, Narayanan grew up in Zambia, studied in the US and is currently based in Delhi where he works at Sarai-CSDS. His poems have appeared in various Indian and international journals and anthologies. Writes Ranjit Hoskote of his book: 'Vivek Narayanan's poems remind me of a thriving port-city, where diverse tongues are spoken, their registers varying from a priestly classical to a piratical demotic… And then there are moments of luminosity, when the word becomes the bearer of hope and redemption. Not by offering us a spurious clarity, but by challenging us into insight with a jaggedness of phrase, a treacherously ambiguous grammar, and a demanding musicality.' From meenamenon at gmail.com Sun Feb 18 11:14:33 2007 From: meenamenon at gmail.com (meena menon) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:14:33 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter ToIndianCricketTeam Captain In-Reply-To: <003b01c75294$9586b7e0$6900a8c0@Tapas> References: <003b01c75294$9586b7e0$6900a8c0@Tapas> Message-ID: <57ad49a60702172144j42bb0a40va1de7929cf98663b@mail.gmail.com> Hi The letter posted by Sanjay was interesting. I read only a brief report about this in the papers. The letter raised disturbing questions and did not give me any pleasure. I fail to understand why it must give pleasure to "all practising pseudo secularists" as suggested in one posting. Are there non practising pseudo secularists? And what is all this about anyway? And am curious to know, as am new to the list, does one have to be asked to explain the intentions behind making a posting? Best Meena Menon On 2/17/07, Tapas Ray wrote: > > I confess as being one of those who appreciate the logic and precision of > Sanjay's response to Ms Jogi's angry post. > > Tapas Ray > > > > thanks for such a quick reply. > > i know, your letter must ave give lot of pleasure to all practising > psudo > > secularists on the list of readers list. > > and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to condemn the > > author. > > > > ms. jogi > >>From: Sanjay Kak > >>To: Sarai Reader List > >>Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian > >>CricketTeam Captain > >>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:33:56 +0530 > >> > >>Dear Ms Jogi > >> > >>The intention was to have people read the Open Letter. > >>To give some of them pleasure. > >>And to give some others a chance to condemn the letter and its author. > >>Is that enough reason? > >>Sorry don¹t have more at this time. > >> > >>Best regards > >> > >>Sanjay > >> > >>------ Forwarded Message > >> > From: Vedavati Jogi > >> > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:28 +0000 > >> > To: octave at bol.net.in > >> > Subject: RE: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team > >> > Captain > >>Rahul > >> > Dravid By Shamsul Islam > >> > > >> > dear mr. kak, > >> > > >> > may i know your intention behind forwarding this letter to > reader-list? > >> > > >> > i condemn this letter & the author! > >> > > >> > vedavati > >> > > >> > > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> -- Meena -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070218/b5ade441/attachment.html From vivek at sarai.net Mon Feb 19 10:53:42 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:53:42 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] VN, Poems, Mumbai Message-ID: <45D9345E.2060701@sarai.net> Dear all, I'm doing a few poetry reading/performances from my work in Mumbai, in February and March. Here's the lineup: Wednesday, February 21: Chauraha, NCPA (See below for full announcement) Sunday, February 25: At Kitab festival, Prithvi Theatre, 2pm: Short (15 mins) reading with three other writers-- Jackie Kay, Jane Bhandari, and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Part of all-day poetry readings at Prithvi. Saturday, March 10: Full length reading/performance for PEN at Prithvi, Prithvi Theatre; more details to follow closer to the date. Universal Beach English Poetry Reading Audio Visual Room Wed. 21st – 6.30 pm This is a CHAURAHA presentation. Vivek Narayanan will read and perform poems from his first collection, Universal Beach (Harbour Line, 2006), as well as poems from his second collection in progress, entitled Lectures in Indian History. Born in Ranchi in 1972, Narayanan grew up in Zambia, studied in the US and is currently based in Delhi where he works at Sarai-CSDS. His poems have appeared in various Indian and international journals and anthologies. Writes Ranjit Hoskote of his book: 'Vivek Narayanan's poems remind me of a thriving port-city, where diverse tongues are spoken, their registers varying from a priestly classical to a piratical demotic… And then there are moments of luminosity, when the word becomes the bearer of hope and redemption. Not by offering us a spurious clarity, but by challenging us into insight with a jaggedness of phrase, a treacherously ambiguous grammar, and a demanding musicality.' From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Mon Feb 19 16:53:55 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:53:55 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter ToIndianCricketTeam Captain In-Reply-To: <57ad49a60702172144j42bb0a40va1de7929cf98663b@mail.gmail.com> References: <003b01c75294$9586b7e0$6900a8c0@Tapas> <57ad49a60702172144j42bb0a40va1de7929cf98663b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: While one does not "have to be asked" to explain the intentions (in this case, behind forwarding the open letter to reader-list), I don't see anything wrong if one fails to understand and chooses to ask. I also did not understand why Ms Jogi "condemns" the letter and the author. I hope she explains that for those who have no way of getting to know whatever that has gone through her mind after reading the letter. As it appears to me, the author has as much right to raise his concerns as much as Mr Dravid has to attend the programme. [While I don't subscribe to their ideology, I envy the working style of RSS and the rate at which it succeeds in influencing a large section of people of this nation. As is pointed out in the letter to Dravid, they believe -- or at least make people believe -- Muslims and Christians are our primary enemies. Apart from the usual shakhas (Boy in the Branch and Men in the Tree were excellent documentations of how well they make it work the way they want), the schools run by the Sangh in tribal areas (called Ekal Vidyalayas) are now extending the reach of that hate ideology. The number of those schools have crossed 20,000.] regards sudeep http://sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com On 2/18/07, meena menon wrote: > Hi > The letter posted by Sanjay was interesting. I read only a brief report > about this in the papers. The letter raised disturbing questions and did not > give me any pleasure. I fail to understand why it must give pleasure to "all > practising pseudo secularists" as suggested in one posting. Are there non > practising pseudo secularists? And what is all this about anyway? And am > curious to know, as am new to the list, does one have to be asked to > explain the intentions behind making a posting? > > Best > > Meena Menon > > > thanks for such a quick reply. > > > i know, your letter must ave give lot of pleasure to all practising > psudo > > > secularists on the list of readers list. > > > and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to condemn the > > > author. > > > > > > ms. jogi > > >>From: Sanjay Kak < octave at bol.net.in> > > >>To: Sarai Reader List > > >>Subject: [Reader-list] Intentions behind an Open Letter To Indian > > >>CricketTeam Captain > > >>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:33:56 +0530 > > >> > > >>Dear Ms Jogi > > >> > > >>The intention was to have people read the Open Letter. > > >>To give some of them pleasure. > > >>And to give some others a chance to condemn the letter and its author. > > >>Is that enough reason? > > >>Sorry don¹t have more at this time. > > >> > > >>Best regards > > >> > > >>Sanjay > > >> > > >>------ Forwarded Message > > >> > From: Vedavati Jogi < vrjogi at hotmail.com> > > >> > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:09:28 +0000 > > >> > To: octave at bol.net.in > > >> > Subject: RE: [Reader-list] An Open Letter To Indian Cricket Team > > >> > Captain > > >>Rahul > > >> > Dravid By Shamsul Islam > > >> > > > >> > dear mr. kak, > > >> > > > >> > may i know your intention behind forwarding this letter to > reader-list? > > >> > > > >> > i condemn this letter & the author! > > >> > > > >> > vedavati From blauloretta at yahoo.com Tue Feb 20 00:29:39 2007 From: blauloretta at yahoo.com (Gustaff Harriman) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:59:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] NU-SUBSTANCE 2007 - electronic music & media arts gathering >> Bandung - Indonesia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <836124.22409.qm@web51013.mail.yahoo.com> NU-SUBSTANCE 2007 - electronic music & media arts gathering The first regular program that is dedicated to encourage the development of electronic music and media arts practice in Bandung – Indonesia. Initiated by Bandung Center for New Media Arts/Common Room Networks Foundation in collaboration with NexxG, this program is also being supported by CCF Bandung. For the first series of NU-SUBSTANCE 2007, this particular program presents experimental instrument exhibition, workshop (electronic music, video jockey & open source music/sound recording); as well as electronic music concert that will be participated by media artist, musician, scientist and open for public participation. Program Schedule: Friday, 23th February 2007 Experimental Instrument Exhibition Venue: Common Room, Jl. Kyai Gede Utama No. 8 Date: 23 Februari s/d 9 March 2007 Opening: 23 Februari 2007, at 15.00 PM Presenting: Hendy Hertiasa aka Party Maker Inc., NRZ, Elang EBY. dan Evan (Storn) Special Appearance: ADEMUS Saturday, 24 February 2007 Workshop Program (electronic music, video jockey & open source music/sound recording) Venue: Common Room, Jl. Kyai Gede Utama No. 8 Time: 14.00 - 18.00 PM Presenting: Deena (Homogenic), Niang aka Chain Smoking Bastard (Biosampler/UVG) and Andi Sugandi (Bandung Linux Club) Participation Fee: Rp. 50.000,-/person Special Appearance: XONAD Monday, 25 February 2007 Electronic Music Concert Venue: Auditorium CCF, Jl. Purnawarman No. 32 Time: 19.00 - 22.30 PM Presenting: Souldelay, Ape on the Roof, Biosampler & Homogenic Artist Profile ADEMUS (b. 1974) de MUSLIM : Ade Muslim’s long standing DJ Ademus, active for over ten years and known to cultivate a healthy obsession with electronic music. Architect and director of the famous essential clothing brand “EAT”. The man behind 347/EAT, Ripple magazine, Spills records, Ex:stence the independent system and movement in Bandung, since 1996. Imposes his octopus-like musical tastes on the turntables, making him one of the most eclectic dj's in Bandung. Next to electronics like minimal, electro, house, techno, braindance, industrial, rock, (free)jazz, postrock, ambient, ragga, dub, reggae, psychedelica, noise, drones, psychfolk, postpunk, free rock grime and many other (mutant) genres. Xonad (b. 1974) Known as the bad boys in the local d’n’b scene in Bandung, Xonad started his career in local music scene with POC, were he played punk with Anggareza and Koseng in 1994. Later on, he formed an experimental band called Adalah Mati in 1997 and continuing his passion in music with Bahamas in year 2003. He also often involves in some multimedia performance project together with Biosampler and also known as the member of Cerahati, local production house that are known for its cutting edge music videos. Up until now Xonad is known as a DJ that played heavy d’n’b music with extreme speed, raw distortion and experimental noise. URL: http://www.myspace.com/xonad http://xonad.multiply.com/music Souldelay This band was formed in year 2005 as a result from an on going experimentation made by its personnel. After several research and experimentation, they decided to plays in trio format involving Indra (beat keeper, sound designer), Gigi (Glitch, Vocal) and Bueno (analog bass). Their music heavily resemblance some influence from Tahiti 80, Telefon tel aviv, Apparat, N.E.R.D, In flames, Manitoba, LO-FI FnK, M83, B. Fleischmann, Milosh, Helios, Boards of Canada, Alva Noto and many more. URL: http://myspace.com/souldelayer Ape on the Roof Ape on the Roof was started as collaborative project from Utari Syaukat and Aghi Naratama when they studied at Seattle. Their music explores acoustic and electronic sound, accompanied by Tari’s voice who often wrote lyrics that plays with imaginary symbol and irony; besides her personal criticism on daily Jakarta’s urban surroundings. Their first self-titled album (Ape on the Roof, 2003), gain some positive response from music fans in Seattle. After they reside in Jakarta, they continue the collaborative project. This time they involve more talents from Jakarta’s music scene, started from DJ OREO a.k.a AGE (The Jonis), Iman (LAIN, ZEKE & THE POPO), Bemby Gusti (LAIN, SORE), Lens (THE MISKINS), Fe (ex JINGGA), Batman (Goodnite Electric), Agrikulture (DJ ANTON, DJ HOGI), and Junko (HERDY, DJ WINKY). Biosampler The year 2000 was the early stage of collaborative meeting from a group of people with similar concern and interests. An intense gathering in a house that located in a dense suburban area in Bandung has emerging into a so-called ‘collective attitude’, which is regarded as an act of self indulgement through a creative process. Each member of this collective often use computer technology, creating piles of works in some digitalized format of sounds, music, images, animations, films, etc. From personal activities, it then has expanded into a collective act to form artistic composition through the creating sensation of sounds, light, and space; which is done spontaneously and sometimes with diverse goal and objective. Some surprising results often happen from their freedom to act and create, as well as dialogues and intervention. What they did has been growing from a daily attitude into an art performance. For NU SUBSTANCE 2007 they play in trio, involving Chain Smoking Bastard, Party Maker Inc. and Dante von Kelly. URL: http://projektheterologia.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/biosampler/ Homogenic Homogenic is a three-piece electronic band from Bandung – Indonesia. They have released two full albums. The first one is called Epic Symphony, released back in 2004. The second one is called Echoes of the Universe, released back in 2006. Their music is influenced by the magic of electronic music such as Mum, Bjork (this is where they got their name), and Portishead. The most interesting thing from Homogenic’s music is the perfect match between the angelic sound comes from their vocalist and light-electronic elements from their programmers. Homogenic is songwriter, keyboardist, and programmer Dina Dellyana, singer Risa Saraswati, and programmer Grahadea Kusuf. URL: www.homogenicworld.com www.myspace.com/homogenic Niang aka Chain Smoking Bastard (b. 1975) Niang is known as multimedia experimentalist that initiated Biosampler together with Sulasmoro, Xonad, Pumpung/Punjung, David Stress, Domekide, Gustaff H. Iskandar, ROIM, Iweng, Hendy Hertiasa and other friends. One of his personal project is Jaeger Boy Transistor, an electronic rock music experimentation that also involving Gustaff H. Iskandar (media artist & researcher), Egga (graphic designer, media artist & DJ), Dandy aka Achong (graphic designer and vocalist of Teenage Death Star) and Hendra (electronic music producer and former initiator of Rock ‘n’ Roll Mafia). Besides working on some of his own project, Niang also work as a VJ and part of United Visual Guerilla (UVG) and often plays in Bandung, Jakarta and Singapore. URL: http://www.diskomport.multiply.com Gustaff H. Iskandar aka Dante von Kelly (b. 1974) Gustaff H. Iskandar, graduated in 1999 from Fine Arts Department, Bandung Institute of Technology. Starting from 1999, Gustaff entered art management scene, wrote, participated in some visual art exhibitions and organized publishing of Trolley Magazine for some years. By the end of 2001, along with R.E. Hartanto and T. Reza Ismail, he founded Bandung Center for New Media Arts, an organization that are focusing on the development of media art & multidisciplinary artistic practice in Indonesia. Having partnership with his wife, Reina Wulansari, and other colleagues, Gustaff is working on his art, working for the organization, curates exhibition, write and speak on discussions and symposiums. In year 2003 he developed Common Room Networks Foundation (http://www.commonroom.info), an artist initiative space that are co-organized together by Bandung Center for New Media Arts & Tobucil. Gustaff currently lives and works in Bandung - Indonesia. Selected project and exhibition consist: International Symposium for Electronic Arts/ ISEA2004 (Helsinki – FI, 2004); Place, Ground & Practice (Auckland – NZ, 2005) and Futuresonic Festival 2006, (Manchester – UK, 2006). URL http://www.projektheterologia.wordpress.com http://www.heterologia.multiply.com Elang EBY. (b. 1981) After discontinuing his study at Law Faculty Unisba, Elang decided to follow his path in music. For quite sometime, Elang has interested to explore sound by using analog and digital equipment. To fulfill his passion, he formed Tragicomedy (1999-2001), Poliester Embassy (2002 – now) and Alphawaves (2006 – now). He also often works together with Evan (Storn), instrument designer and hardware builder for analog and digital instrument. One of his works is modified theremin, which is basically being developep after original theremin that was made in year 1919 by Leon Theremin (1896-1993). If the original theremin uses radio signal as its proximity sensor, the new version were equipped with modern chip so it can reach higher frequency. This modified theremin allows us to explore shine wave, which are similar to violin sound. Not only that, it can also produce pulse wave for lower pitch. Hendy Hertiasa aka Party Maker Inc. (b. 1970) and NRZ (b. 1979) Hendy Hertiasa aka Party Maker Inc. were known as graphic designer besides works as a lecture at Visual Communication Design, FSRD – ITB. Up until now, he often involves himself in some collaborative project with Biosampler, a multimedia performance group that was being established in year 2000. During that period, he initiated a collaborative project with Nurus Syaifullah aka NRZ (b. 1979) who receive a degree in year 2003 from Physics Department at ITB. Together, they started to applied experimentation on sensor technology, particularly on ultrasonic sensor. The first prototype that was made by NRZ are being used for the first time by Hendy during Insomnia48, a visual arts project that was held at the Old Parliament House (Singapore, 2004). He perform together with Biosampler under the project called no_placia, which also involves Sulasmoro, Ademus, Gustaff H. Iskandar, Chain Smoking Bastard and KRSGT. **This program is being initiated by Common Room Networks Foundation, NexxG and CCF Bandung. More information please contact: Nunung at 022-70800620 Common Room Network Foundation Jl. Kyai Gede Utama No. 8 Bandung – 40132 West Java – Indonesia PH. 022-70800620 Fax. 022-2503404 URL: http://www.commonroom.info http://www.projektheterologia.wordpress.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Tue Feb 20 10:35:55 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:35:55 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Freedom of speech [Re: Intentions behind..] Message-ID: On 2/19/07, Nitya Jacob wrote: > > To take Ms Jogi's logic further, we should be living in a Hindu republic > with Vande Mataram as the national anthem, saffron as the only colour in the > national flag, sadhus as ministers and a Kshatriya as Prime Minister. Anyone > lower than a shudra should be banished to kala paani, including non-Hindus. > Sikhs, Jains and Budhists should be co-opted as Hindus as they were > 'offshoots of Hindu reformist movements'. The economy should grow at 4% > annually. We should ONLY have temples to Ram. Anyone opposing the creed of > Manu or the Arthashastra should be beheaded. Women and cattle should be > treated alike. > > Fortunately for us and the rest of the world, those who wrote the > constitution realised India could not exist without giving equal weightage > to all religions and respecting people regardless of caste and religion. > They recognised that for the past 1000 years India has been ruled mostly by > non-Hindus (invaders, if the RSS pleases, enemy no.s 1 & 2) but who put down > roots and settled here and so need to be assimilated. > > It was enlightening to read Sanjay Kak's essay and distressing to see Ms > Jogi's reaction. But then freedom of speech exists, save in Gujarat - we all > know who rules there, now dont we. Dear Nitya, "Freedom of speech exists, save in Gujarat"? Are you living in some utopia? If you are refering to Parzania not getting released in Gujarat, let me tell you the film has not been released in Assam. It is not that the cinema halls in Guwahati are filled with Assamese films, they are all showing some Hindi movie or the other. From Ekalavya to Traffic Signal to Undertrial. And it is likely that the film won't be shown in most of our smaller cities/towns (other than the city multiplexes). The reason is that the distributors and theatre owners are afraid, or they are themselves against such a film being shown to the public. The hatred and Islamophobia is running in this secular country's blood deeper than you may wish to believe. RSS has played a pivotal role in it. If you are happy with this "freedom of speech", and this "secular fabric" of our country (I am afraid many of us are), we will see many more genocides, and each of them will probably come as a "shock" to us. regards sudeep [I'm still happy that the film (that apparently had the guts to speak what even most of the documentaries on the genocide shied away from, as one my friend puts it) got to see the light at least in the multiplexes, but one should not forget that it took about two years after the film was completed. And when a group of guys in the capital city are planning to go for the film, the first question that arises is, "Should we really spend our money on such anti-nationalist movies"?] From sudeshna.kca at gmail.com Mon Feb 19 18:44:39 2007 From: sudeshna.kca at gmail.com (Sudeshna Chatterjee) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:44:39 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Talk by Harry Schwartz at NIUA on 22 Feb In-Reply-To: <3ef603b70702170517i3d688705o706f20a01c9b6d6e@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ef603b70702170517i3d688705o706f20a01c9b6d6e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3ef603b70702190514t669a19cdnc67aa3e4a3d13168@mail.gmail.com> *National Institute of Urban Affairs * *ANNOUNCES * A SEMINAR *Evolution of US cities over the last 50 years * by *Harry Schwartz* Urban Planning and Environmental Consultant *On Thursday, 22nd February at 3:00 p.m. * *Venue : Committee Room (2ndFloor)* National Institute of Urban Affairs Core 4B, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003 All are cordially invited Harry Schwartz, an urban planner and educator from New York, will talk on Thursday, February 22 at 3:00 at the Conference Hall of the NIUA. He will focus on the momentuous physical, economic and social changes that have occurred in cities in the United States since WW II. As Indian cities continue growing we may be able to learn something from the American experience. -- Sudeshna Chatterjee, PhD Partner, Kaimal Chatterjee & Associates New Delhi, India -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The article was not based on true facts, it was a white lie that Aurangzeb had destroyed temples and built mosques, beheaded non-muslims, etc. Most of the historian of international repute have praised Aurangzeb and his reign. It is very muhc true that Aurangzeb has been maligned by Hindu fundamentalists'. Even Indian politicians are ignorant of Aurangzeb's evil deeds. Indian scholars might have known about him, but for their own reasons chose to keep quiet and allowed he so called historians to write Aurangzeb's destructive drive. In histroy written by international author, Aurangzeb have donated many lands in Banaras to hindus for temples, he brought justice for all and freedom to speech and practice. He took stern steps to prevent the division of Hindustan, the mughal empire. At hat Sikhs were trying to alineate from he empire and so they met with drastic consequences, it was political. Today Indian government is also doing the same, when the Kashmiri wants freedom, north eastern states want separate land, even the people who raised voice agianst the government and demand freedom from India, are dealt with iron hand. Is keeping the nation intact and undivided a crime then ofcourse Aurangzeb had done the crime, if brnging taritors to justice is crime then Aurangzeb was criminal...but think is the Indian government not acting the same way, Muslism were orderd to not use louspeakers for Fazr Azaan, not sacrifice animals on Eid, dmeolished Babri mosques in the name of religion, Christains were told to stop preaching their religion, to make donations, etc. Now people have understood the real motif behind the malighning of Aurangzeb. He was the king of just, he didn't take single penny from the national treasure for his expenses, he used to manage his expenses from writing copies of Holy Quran, etc. He is rightly called the Sufi Emperor, because he believes "Jo Fakiri mein maza hai Kab woh sultani mein hai". Review your history .......before maligning anyone.... S Fatima wrote: The truth about Aurangzeb Francois Gautier February 16, 2007 FACT, the Trust which I head, is holding an exhibition on 'Aurangzeb as he was according to Mughal documents', from February 16 to 20 at New Delhi's Habitat Center, the Palm Court Gallery, from 10 am to 9 pm. Why an exhibition on Aurangzeb, some may ask. Firstly, I have been a close student of Indian history, and one of its most controversial figures has been Aurangzeb (1658-1707). It is true that under him the Mughal empire reached its zenith, but Aurangzeb was also a very cruel ruler � some might even say monstrous. What are the facts? Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishwanath temple, one of the most sacred places of Hinduism, and had mosques built on a number of cleared temple sites. Other Hindu sacred places within his reach equally suffered destruction, with mosques built on them. A few examples: Krishna's birth temple in Mathura; the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujarat; the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares; and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. The number of temples destroyed by Aurangzeb is counted in four, if not five figures. Aurangzeb did not stop at destroying temples, their users were also wiped out; even his own brother Dara Shikoh was executed for taking an interest in Hindu religion; Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded because he objected to Aurangzeb's forced conversions. Yet, Percival Spear, co-author with Romila Thapar of the prestigious A History of India (Penguin), writes: 'Aurangzeb's supposed intolerance is little more than a hostile legend based on isolated acts such as the erection of a mosque on a temple site in Benares.' L'histoire de l'Inde moderne (Fayard), the French equivalent of Percival Spear's history of India, praises Aurangzeb and says, 'He has been maligned by Hindu fundamentalists'. Even Indian politicians are ignorant of Aurangzeb's evil deeds. Nehru might have known about them, but for his own reasons he chose to keep quiet and instructed his historians to downplay Aurangzeb's destructive drive and instead praise him as a benefactor of arts. Since then six generations of Marxist historians have done the same and betrayed their allegiance to truth. Very few people know for instance that Aurangzeb banned any kind of music and that painters had to flee his wrath and take refuge with some of Rajasthan's friendly maharajahs. Thus, we thought we should get at the root of the matter. History (like journalism) is about documentation and first-hand experience. We decided to show Aurangzeb according to his own documents. There are an incredible number of farhans, original edicts of Aurangzeb hand-written in Persian, in India's museums, particularly in Rajasthan, such as the Bikaner archives. It was not always easy to scan them, we encountered resistance, sometimes downright hostility and we had to go once to the chief minister to get permission. Indeed, the director of Bikaner archives told us that in 50 years we were the first ones asking for the farhans dealing with Aurangzeb's destructive deeds. Then we asked painters from Rajasthan to reproduce in the ancient Mughal style some of the edicts: the destruction of Somnath temple; the trampling of Hindus protesting jaziya tax by Aurangzeb's elephants; or the order from Aurangzeb prohibiting Hindus to ride horses and palanquins; or the beheading of Teg Bahadur and Dara Shikoh. People might say: 'OK, this is all true, Aurangzeb was indeed a monster, but why rake up the past, when we have tensions between Muslims and Hindus today?' There are two reasons for this exhibition. The first is that no nation can move forward unless its children are taught to look squarely at their own history, the good and the bad, the evil and the pure. The French, for instance, have many dark periods in their history, more recently some of the deeds they did during colonisation in North Africa or how they collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and handed over French Jews who died in concentration camps (the French are only now coming to terms with it). The argument that looking at one's history will pit a community against the other does not hold either: French Catholics and Protestants, who share a very similar religion, fought each other bitterly. Catholics brutally murdered thousands of Protestants in the 18th century; yet today they live peacefully next to each other. France fought three wars with Germany in the last 150 years, yet they are great friends today. Let Hindus and Muslims then come to terms with what happened under Aurangzeb, because Muslims suffered as much as Hindus. It was not only Shah Jahan or Dara Shikoh who were murdered, but also the forefathers of today's Indian Muslims who have been converted at 90 per cent. Aurangzeb was the Hitler, the asura of medieval India. No street is named after Hitler in the West, yet in New Delhi we have Aurangzeb Road, a constant reminder of the horrors Aurangzeb perpetrated against Indians, including his own people. Finally, Aurangzeb is very relevant today because he thought that Sunni Islam was the purest form of his religion and he sought to impose it with ruthless efficiency -- even against those of his own faith, such as his brother. Aurangzeb clamped down on the more syncretic, more tolerant Islam, of the Sufi kind, which then existed in India. But he did not fully succeed. Four centuries later, is he going to have the last word? I remember, when I started covering Kashmir in the late '70s, that Islam had a much more open face. The Kashmir Muslim, who is also a descendant of converted Hindus, might have thought that Allah was the only true God, but he accepted his Kashmiri Pandit neighbour, went to his or her marriage, ate in his or her house and the Hindu in turn went to the mosque. Women used to walk with open faces, watch TV, films. Then the shadow of Aurangzeb fell on Kashmir and the hardline Sunnis came from Pakistan and Afghanistan: cinemas were banned, the burqa imposed, 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were chased out of Kashmir through violence and became refugees in their own land and the last Sufi shrine of Sharar-e-Sharif was burnt to the ground (I was there). Today the Shariat has been voted in Kashmir, a state of democratic, secular India, UP's Muslims have applauded, and the entire Indian media which went up in flames when the government wanted Vande Mataram to be sung, kept quiet. The spirit of Aurangzeb seems to triumph. But what we need today in India -- and indeed in the world -- is a Dara Shikoh, who reintroduces an Islam which, while believing in the supremacy of its Prophet, not only accepts other faiths, but is also able to see the good in each religion, study them, maybe create a synthesis. Islam needs to adapt its scriptures which were created nearly 15 centuries ago for the people and customs of these times, but which are not necessarily relevant in some of their injunctions today. Kabir, Dara Shikoh and some of the Sufi saints attempted this task, but failed. Aurangzeb knew what he was doing when he had his own brother beheaded. And we know what we are saying when we say that this exhibition is very relevant to today's India. May the Spirit of Dara Shikoh come back to India and bring back Islam to a more tolerant human face. Francois Gautier http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/feb/16francois.htm __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. 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The security man’s spoon paved its way through the thick grease floating curries—Malai Kofta, Shahi Paneer, Aalu Bengan, and Mixed Vegetables. As the visitors opened tiny bags of curries the spoon separated each piece of vegetable from the other, quite mechanically. 'Frisking' the food of a middle aged woman the spoon took a dip at the water in the steel bowl nearby. It then moved to the plastic bags of the next in the queue, an early teenage boy. By now water in the steel bowl has all kinds of colours. The floating oil gave it a vibgyor effect when light hit at it on the winter afternoon. Around 4.30 my turn came. The man left the spoon on the table and frisked my body top to bottom, thrice thoroughly. And when the metal detector made noise I had to remove my belt, steel watch, and keys. The man on duty bearing the badge of Tamilnadu Special Police (TSP) looked satisfied. I am allowed to enter now. This is the fourth security drill I had to go through to get into the High Risk Ward of Prison No 3 in Tihar Central Prison. I am on my way to meet Mohammad Afzal, one of the most talked about man in the contemporary times. A room with many tiny cubicles. Visitor and inmate were separated by a thick glass, and iron grills. Both were connected through a mike and a speaker fixed on the wall. Poorly audible, people at both sides of the glass strained their ears out touching the wall to listen other. Mohammad Afzal was already at the other side of the cubicle. His face gave me an impression of unfathomable dignity and calmness. A little short man in his mid thirties wearing white kurta paijama had a Reynolds pen in his pocket. Very clear voice welcomed me with the best of all mannerisms. How are you sir? I said, I'm fine. Am I to return the same question to a man on the deathrow, was apprehensive for a second, but I did. Very fine. Thank you sir, he answered with warmth. The conversation went on for close to an hour, and continued a fortnight later with a second Mulakat. Both of us were in a hurry to answer and ask whatever one could in the time. I went on scribbling him in my tiny pocket book. He seemed to be a person who wanted to tell a lot of things to the world. But repeated his helplessness to reach people from the current stature of ‘condemned for life’. Excerpts of the interview There are so many contradicting images of Afzal. Which Afzal am I meeting? Is it? But as far as I’m concerned there is only one Afzal. That is me. Who is that Afzal? A moments’ silence Afzal as a young, enthusiastic, intelligent, idealistic young man, Afzal a Kashmiri influenced like many thousands in the Kashmir Valley in the political climate of early 1990s, who was a JKLF member and crossed over to the other side of Kashmir, but in a matter of weeks got disillusioned and came back and tried to live a normal life, but was never allowed to do so by the security agencies who inordinate times picked me up, tortured the pulp out of me, electrified, frozen in cold water, dipped in petrol, smoked in chilies you name it, and falsely implicated in a case, with no lawyer, no fair trial, finally condemned to death. The lies the police told was propagated by you in media. And that perhaps created what the Supreme Court referred to as "collective conscience of the nation”. And to satisfy that "collective conscience” I’m condemned to death. That is the Mohammad Afzal you are meeting. After a moments’ silence, he continued. But I wonder whether the outside world knows anything about this Afzal. I ask you, did I get a chance to tell my story? Do you think justice is done? Would you like to hang a person without giving him a lawyer? Without a fair trial? Without listening to what he had to go through in life? Democracy doesn’t mean all this, does it? Can we begin with your life? Your life before the case… It was a turbulent political period in Kashmir when I was growing up. Maqbul Bhatt was hanged. The situation was volatile. The people of Kashmir decided to fight an electoral battle once again to resolve the Kashmir issue through peaceful means. Muslim United Front (MUF) was formed to represent the sentiments of Kashmiri Muslims for the final settlement of the Kashmir issue. Administration at Delhi was alarmed by the kind of support that MUF was gaining and in the consequence we saw rigging in the election on an unprecedented scale. And the leaders, who took part in the election and won with huge majority, were arrested, humiliated and put behind bars. It is only after this that the same leaders gave call for armed resistance. In response thousands of youth took to armed revolt. I dropped out from my MBBS studies in Jhelum Valley Medical College, Srinagar. I was also one of those who crossed to the other side of Kashmir as a JKLF member, but was disillusioned after seeing Pakistani Politicians acting the same as the Indian politicians in dealing with Kashmiris. I returned after few weeks. I surrendered to the security force, and you know, I was even given a BSF certificate as surrendered militant. I began to start the life new. I could not become a doctor but I became a dealer of medicines and surgical instruments on commission basis (laughs). With the meager income I even bought a scooter and also got married. But never a day passed by without the scare of Rashtriya Rifles and STF men harassing me. If there was a militant attack somewhere in Kashmir they would round up civilians, torture them to pulp. The Situation was even worse for a surrendered militant like me. They detained us for several weeks, and threatened to implicate in false cases and were let free only if we paid huge bribes. Many times I had to go through this. Major Ram Mohan Roy of 22 Rashtriya Rifles gave electric shock to my private parts. Many times I was made to clean their toilets and sweep their camps. Once I had to bribe the security men with all that I had to escape from the Humhama STF torture camp. D.S.P. Vinay Gupta and D.S.P. Davinder Singh supervised the torture. One of their torture experts, Inspector Shanty Singh, electrified me for three hours until I agreed to pay one lakh rupees as bribe. My wife sold her jewelry and for the remaining amount they sold my scooter. I left the camp broken both financially and mentally. For six months I could not go outside home because my body was in such a bad shape. I could not even share the bed with my wife as my penile organ had been electrified. I had to take medical treatment to regain potency…. Afzal narrated the torture details with a disturbing calmness on his face. He seemed to have lot of details to tell me about the torture he faced. But unable to hear the horror stories of security forces that operate with my tax money, I cut him short and asked: If you could come to the Case…, what were the incidents that led to the Parliament attack Case? After all the lessons I learned in STF camps, which is either you and your family members get harassed constantly for resisting or cooperate with the STF blindly, I had hardly any options left, when D.S.P Davinder Singh asked me to do a small job for him. That is what he told, “a small job”. He told me that I had to take one man to Delhi. I was supposed to find a rented house for him in Delhi. I was seeing the man first time, but since he did not speak Kashmiri I suspected he was an outsider. He told his name was Mohammad [Mohammad is identified by the police as the man who led the 5 gunmen who attacked the Parliament. All of them were killed by the security men in the attack]. When we were in Delhi Mohammad and me used to get phone calls from Davinder Singh. I had also noticed that Mohammad used to visit many people in Delhi. After he purchased a car he told me now I could go back and gave me 35,000 rupees saying it was a gift. And I left to Kashmir for Eid. When I was about to leave to Sopore from Srinagar bus stand I was arrested and taken to Parimpora police station. They tortured me and took to STF headquarters and from there brought me to Delhi. In the torture chamber of Delhi Police Special Cell, I told them everything I knew about Mohammad. But they insisted that I should say that my cousin Showkat, his wife Navjot S.A.R. Geelani and I were the people behind the Parliament attack. They wanted me to say this convincingly in front of media. I resisted. But I had no option than to yield when they told me my family was in their custody and threatened to kill them. I was made to sign many blank pages and was forced to talk to the media and claim responsibility for the attack by repeating what the police told me to say. When a journalist asked me about the role of S.A.R. Geelani I told him Geelani was innocent. A.C.P. Rajbeer Singh shouted at me in the full media glare for talking beyond what they tutored. They were really upset when I deviated from their story and Rajbeer Singh requested the journalists not to broadcast that part where I spoke of Geelani’s innocence. Rajbeer Singh allowed me to talk to my wife the next day. After the call he told me if I wanted to see them alive I had to cooperate. Accepting the charges was the only option in front of me if I wanted to see the family alive and the Special Cell officers promised they would make my case weak so I would be released after sometime. Then they took me to various places and showed me the markets where Mohammad had purchased different things. Thus they made the evidence for the case. Police made me a scapegoat in order to mask their failure to find out the mastermind of Parliament attack. They have fooled the people. People still don’t know whose idea was to attack the Parliament. I was entrapped into the case by Special Task Force (STF) of Kashmir and implicated by Delhi Police Special Cell. The media constantly played the tape. The police officers received awards. And I was condemned to death. Why didn’t you find legal defence? I had no one to turn to. I did not even see my family until six months into the trial. And when I saw them it was only for a short time in the Patiala House Court. There was no one to arrange a lawyer for me. As legal aid is a fundamental right in this country I named four lawyers whom I wished to have defended me. But the judge S.N. Dhingra, said all four refused to do the case. The lawyer whom the Court chose for me began by admitting some of the most crucial documents without even asking me what the truth of the matter was. She was not doing the job properly and finally she moved to defend another fellow accused. Then the Court appointed an amicus curie, not to defend me, but to assist court in the matter. He never met me. And he was very hostile and communal. That is my case, completely unrepresented at the crucial trial stage. The fact of the matter is that I did not have a lawyer and in a case like this, what does not having a lawyer mean everyone can understand. If you wanted to put me to death what was the need for such a long legal process which to me was totally meaningless? Do you want to make any appeal to the world? I have no specific appeals to make. I have said whatever I wanted to say in my petition to the President of India. My simple, appeal is that do not allow blind nationalism and mistaken perceptions to lead you to deny even the most fundamental rights of your fellow citizens. Let me repeat what S.A.R. Geelani said after he was awarded death sentence at the trial court, he said, peace comes with justice. If there is no justice, there is no peace. I think that is what I want to say now. If you want to hang me, go ahead with it but remember it would be a black spot on the judicial and political system of India. What is the condition in jail? I’m lodged in solitary confinement in the high risk cell. I’m taken out from my cell only for a short period during noon. No radio, no television. Even the newspaper I subscribe reaches me torn. If there is a news item about me, they tear that portion apart and give me the rest. Apart from the uncertainty about your future, what else concerns you the most? Yes, a lot of things concern me. There are hundreds of Kashmiris languishing in different jails, without lawyers, without trial, without any rights. The situation of civilians in the streets of Kashmir is not any different. The valley itself is an open prison. These days the news of fake encounters is coming out. But that is only the tip of a big iceberg. Kashmir has everything that you don’t want to see in a civilized nation. They breathe torture. Inhale injustice. He paused for a moment. Also, there are so many thoughts that come into my mind; farmers who get displaced, merchants whose shops are sealed in Delhi and so on. So many faces of injustice you can see and identify, can’t you? Have you thought how many thousands of people get affected by all this, their livelihood, family…? All these things too, worry me. Again a longer pause Also global developments. I took to the news of the execution of Saddham Hussain with at most sadness. Injustice so openly and shamelessly done. Iraq, the land of Mesopotamia, world’s richest civilization, that taught us mathematics, use a 60 minute clock, 24 hour day, 360 degree circle, is thrashed to dust by the Americans. Americans are destroying all other civilizations and value systems. Now the so called War against Terrorism is only good in spreading hatred and causing destruction. I can go on saying what worries me. Which books are you reading now? I finished reading Arundhati Roy. Now I’m reading Sartre’s work on existentialism. You see, it is a poor library in the jail. So I will have to request the visiting Society for the Protection of Detainees and Prisoners Rights (SPDPR) members for books. There is a campaign in defence for you… I am really moved and obliged by the thousands of people who came forward saying injustice is done to me. The lawyers, students, writers, intellectuals, and all those people are doing something great by speaking against injustice. The situation was such at the beginning, in 2001 and initial days of the case that it was impossible for justice loving people to come forward. When the High Court acquitted SAR Geelani people started questioning the police theory. And when more and more people became aware of the case details and facts and started seeing things beyond the lies, they began speaking up. It is natural that justice loving people speak up and say, injustice is done to Afzal. Because that is the truth. Members of your family have conflicting opinion on your case? My wife has been consistently saying that I was wrongly framed. She has seen how the STF tortured me and did not allow me to live a normal life. She also knew how they implicated me in the case. She wants me to see our son Ghalib growing up. I have also an elder brother who apparently is speaking against me under duress from the STF. It is unfortunate what he does, that’s what I can say. See, it is a reality in Kashmir now, what you call the counter insurgency operations take any dirty shape—that they field brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor. You are breaking a society with your dirty tricks. As far as the campaign is concerned I had requested and authorized Society for the Protection of Detainees and Prisoners Society (SPDPR) run by Geelani and group of activists to do the campaign. What comes to your mind when you think of your wife Tabassum and Son Ghalib? This year is the tenth anniversary of our wedding. Over half that period I spent in jail. And prior to that, many a times I was detained and tortured by Indian security forces in Kashmir. Tabassum witnessed both my physical and mental wounds. Many times I returned from the torture camp, unable to stand, all kinds of torture including electric shock to my penis, she gave me hope to live…We did not have a day of peaceful living. It is the story of many Kashmiri couples. Constant fear is the dominant feeling in all Kashmiri households. We were so happy when a child was born. We named our son after the legendary poet Mirza Ghalib. We had a dream to see our son Ghalib grow up. I could spend very little time with him. After his second birthday I was implicated in the case. What do you want him to grow up as? Professionally, if you are asking, a doctor. Because that is my incomplete dream. But most importantly, I want him to grow without fear. I want him to speak against injustice. That I am sure he will be. Who else know the story of injustice better than my wife and son? [While Afzal continued talking about his wife and son, I could not stop recollecting what Tabassum told me when I met her outside Supreme Court in 2005 during the case’s appeal stage. When Afzal’s family members remained in Kashmir Tabassum dared to come to Delhi with her son Ghalib to organize defence for Afzal. Outside the Supreme Court New Lawyers chamber, at the tiny tea stall on the roadside, she chatted in detail about Afzal. While sipping and complaining the tea for excess sugar she told about how Afzal enjoyed cooking. One picture she painted stuck me deep—one of those dear private moments in their lives, he would not allow her to enter kitchen, make her seated on the chair nearby and Afzal would cook, holding one book in his band, a ladle in the other and read out stories for her.]…. If I may ask you about Kashmir issue…how do you think it can be solved? First let the government be sincere to the people of Kashmir. And let them initiate talk with the real representatives of Kashmir. Trust me, the real representatives of Kashmir can solve the problem. But if the government consider peace process as a tactics of counter insurgency, then the issue is not going to be solved. It is time some sincerity is shown. Who are the real people? Find out from the sentiments of the people of Kashmir. I am not going to name x, y or z. And I have an appeal to Indian media; stop acting as a propaganda tool. Let them report the truth. With their smartly worded and politically loaded news reports, they distort facts, make incomplete reports, build hardliners, terrorists et al. They easily fall for the games of the intelligence agencies. By doing insincere journalism you are adding to the problem. Disinformation on Kashmir should stop first. Allow Indians to know the complete history of the conflict, let them know the ground realities. True democrats cannot turn down the facts. If Indian government is not taking into account the wishes of Kashmiri people, then they can’t solve the problem. It will continue to be a conflict zone. Also you tell me how are you going to develop real trust among Kashmiris when you send out the message that India has a justice system that hang people without giving a lawyer, without a fair trial? Tell me, when hundreds of Kashmiris are lodged in jails most of them with no lawyer, no hope for justice, are you not further escalating the distrust on Indian government among Kashmiris? Do you think if you don’t address the core issues and do a cosmetic effort, you can solve Kashmir conflict? No, you can’t. Let the democratic institutions of both India and Pakistan start showing some sincerity, their politicians, Parliament, justice system, media, intellectuals... 9 security men were killed in the Parliament attack. What is that you have to tell their relatives? In fact I share the pain of the family members who lost their dear ones in the attack. But I feel sad that they are misled to believe that hanging an innocent person like me would satisfy them. They are used as pawns in a completely distorted cause of nationalism. I appeal them to come out of it and see through things. What do you see is your achievement in life? My biggest achievement perhaps is that through my case and the campaign on the injustice done to me, the horror of STF has brought into light. I am happy that now people are discussing security forces’ atrocities on civilians, encounter killings, disappearances, torture camps, etc...These are the realities that a Kashmiri grows up with. People outside Kashmir have no clue what Indian security forces are up to in Kashmir. Even if they kill me for no crime of mine, it would be because they cannot stand the truth. They cannot face the questions arise out of hanging a Kashmiri with no lawyer. An ear-splitting electric bell rang. Could hear hurried up conversations from the neighbor cubicles. This was my last question to Afzal. What do you want to be known as? He thought for a minute, and answered: As Afzal, as Mohmammad Afzal. I am Afzal for Kashmiris, and I am Afzal for Indians as well, but the two groups have an entirely conflicting perception of my being. I would naturally trust the judgment of Kashmiri people not only because I am one among them but also because they are well aware of the reality I have been through and they cannot be misled into believing any distorted version of either a history or an incident. I was confused with this last statement of Mohammad Afzal, but on further reflection I began to understand what he meant. History of Kashmir and narration of an incident by a Kashmiri is always a big shock for an Indian whose sources of knowledge on Kashmir happen to be confined only to the text books and media reports. Afzal did just that to me. Two more bells. Time to end Mulakat. But people were still busy conversing. Mike put off. Speaker stopped. But if you strained your ear, and watched the lip movement, you could still hear him. The guards made rough round-ups, asking to leave. As they found visitors not leaving, they put the lights off, mulakat room turned dark. In the long stretch of walk out from the Jail No 3 of Tihar jail compound to the main road I found myself in the company of clusters of twos and threes, moving out silently—either a cluster of mother, wife and daughter; or brother, sister and wife; or friend and brother; or someone else. Every cluster had two things in common. They carried an empty cotton bag back with them. Those bags had stains of Malai Kofta, Shahi Paneer and Mixed Vegetables, often spilled over by the rash frisking of the TSP man’s spoon. The second, I observed, they all wore inexpensive winter clothes, torn shoes, and outside Gate No 3 they waited for Bus No 588, Tilak Nagar-Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium bus, that perhaps took them to Dhaulakuan main junction—they are the poor citizens of this country. Remembered President Abdul Kalam’s musing how poor people were the awardees of capital punishments. My interviewee is also one. When I asked him how much ‘tokens’ (the form of currency allowed in the jail) he had, he said “enough to survive”. Vinod K. Jose is a foreign correspondent attached with Radio Pacifica Network, USA. He is based in New Delhi. vinodkjose at gmail.com From alice at tank.tv Tue Feb 20 16:22:05 2007 From: alice at tank.tv (Alice O'Reilly) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:52:05 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] John Smith on www.tank.tv 1.03.07 - 15.4.07 Message-ID: <442eb4460702200252lb1e513ajdebf7160b8a83029@mail.gmail.com> John Smith – Film and Video www.tank.tv / 1st March - 15th April 2007 This month tank.tv presents a rare opportunity to view a retrospective of the work of one of the most important British film and video artists of his generation, John Smith. tank.tv have a long-standing relationship with the artist and we are very pleased to present work that has so much influenced young and emerging artists. John Smith started making films in 1972 and became associated with the London Film Makers Co-op. At the height of theory led, materialist filmmaking, Smith's work was marked by its humour and accessibility. Playful, idiosyncratic and staunchly rigorous these films (made over a 32 year period) are an absorbing exploration of questions central to both cinema and experience Over the past three decades John Smith has developed a body of work that deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between truth and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing on the raw material of everyday life, Smith's meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the power of cinematic language. The show includes one of Smith's key works, Girl Chewing Gum (1976). The film examines many of the themes present throughout Smith's work, despite being made very early in his career, during his masters degree. A voice-over accompanies footage of a busy London street corner, appearing to direct the movement of people, birds and even a clock. 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The festival is a series of film screenings and conferences held over three days that aim to create general awareness and inspire dialogues among the general public on water- a precious, seamless natural resource that is becoming increasingly scarce and deviously comodified. We invite you to be part of this event by contributing short, documentary and feature films (DVD/VCD formats) with English subtitles on water and related issues. Further, we would appreciate a preview copy of any films you would wish to send so that we may place them in one of the five categories of the festival, Water Scarcity, The Dams and the Displaced, Water Harvest, Water Struggles and Water and Life. We would duly acknowledge your participation. While there is no entry fee, ‘Voices From the Waters’ being a public awareness program, films for the festival will be short-listed by a committee composed of film-makers and social activists. Should you need more information about us, please do get in touch with us. Deadline for entries is 15th April, 2007. Looking forward to your participation. Thanking you, Yours Sincerely, BFS team Contact:- Siddharth Pillai, 33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, M.S. Nagar P.O., Bangalore- 560 033, Karnataka, India. Tel: 91- 80- 25493705 Email: bfs at bgl.vsnl.net.in Bangalore Film Society:- Bangalore Film Society is a non profit membership based organization committed to explore the cultural politics and how it impacts and shapes the modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. We volunteer to screen feature and documentary films for the film society members, in colleges and institutions. Our aim is to introduce the contemporary socio-political-cultural concerns through cinema among the youth and initiate discussions, as also to inculcate among the youth a deep sense of humanism, pluralism, and an appreciation of diversity. 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While ‘western’ photographers like Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson have been better known in the history of Indian photography, iconic images of the birth of the new nation were also taken by several unsung chroniclers of the time. One of these was India’s first woman press photographer, Homai Vyarawalla, who is ninety-three today. Re-looking at her rich body of work spread over three decades of Indian history, this illustrated presentation will focus on ways in which her photographs both contributed to and departed from nationalist iconography. The speaker Sabeena Gadihoke teaches Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia University, Delhi. She is also a documentary filmmaker and cameraperson and works on the history and culture of Indian Photography. Her book Camera Chronicles (Mapin, India) on the life and work of India’s first woman photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla was released in 2006 For more info, log onto our website at www.sacredmediacow.com From yasir.media at gmail.com Wed Feb 21 21:41:27 2007 From: yasir.media at gmail.com (yasir ~) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:27 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] truth about Aurangzeb In-Reply-To: <504043.39165.qm@web38913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20070216173251.93797.qmail@web8415.mail.in.yahoo.com> <504043.39165.qm@web38913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5af37bb0702210811i6de4b244m3e7af096c05ea549@mail.gmail.com> the truth about x x as he was indeed x was bad. x = ? who gives an x about francois gautiers version of x as someone quoted mohsin makhmalbaf on the taliban blowing up the bamiyan buddha in the film 'giant buddha' - it wasnt the taliban who blew up the buddha, the buddha disintegrated in shame at the west' indifference to afghanistan ! From p.hatzopoulos-alumni at lse.ac.uk Wed Feb 21 23:40:54 2007 From: p.hatzopoulos-alumni at lse.ac.uk (p.hatzopoulos-alumni at lse.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:10:54 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] Time and governance - special issue, part I Message-ID: New online journal Re-public ( www.republic.gr/en ) has just published the first part of its special issue "Time and governace". The issue explores the multiple intersections between time and politics in the attempt to rethink democratic theory and practice. Articles include: Robert Hassan– No future: Democracy in the age of neoliberal speed ( http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=115 ) Democracy will eventually die if we continue to unthinkingly accept that our short-termism and reliance on abstract market mechanisms will look after our future. _____ Neni Panourgia - Kant, civil war and the folds of meaning (http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=118 ) Do Civil Wars determine time? Or, otherwise, are Civil Wars determined by time, asks Neni Panourgia, with particular reference to the Greek Civil War, _____ Kingsley Dennis - Real-time and the politics of presence ( http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=117 ) Dennis sees the success in civil participation and mobilisation as relying more on connectivity and speed than content and power. _____ Bryce Goebel - "what lies behind the notion of progress" ( http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=119 ) Goebel captures the relevance of (Pink Floyd's) "Time" today. _____ All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source. From pukar at pukar.org.in Wed Feb 21 11:54:01 2007 From: pukar at pukar.org.in (PUKAR) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:54:01 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [announcements] PUKAR Youth Fellowship Message-ID: <002e01c75580$e1fe4220$7166c2cb@freeda> Do you . live in the Mumbai metropolitan area.. . have curiosity / concerns about your city, your community & your place in this scheme. . want to explore these curiosities and concerns. . want to have Fun while researching / discovering your city, your locality and yourself? If your answer to all these questions is YES then PUKAR has an opportunity for YOU! PUKAR Youth Fellowship For the Fellowship year 2007-08, we invite you to have a dialogue with us about the ideas you want to explore, the research you wish to conduct, the people you would like to collaborate with in developing your project. For more details, please call us before March 15, 2007. Vandana 9821520724 Aditya 9820608328 Anita 022-6505-3302 Anupamaa 022-6574-8152 What is in it for YOU? A unique opportunity to be with like minded young people who are just as Interesting, Dynamic and Curious as YOU! What is PUKAR? PUKAR: · Is an independent research-action organization · Provides a forum for cross-disciplinary dialogue about issues of urbanization and globalization · Aims at producing new knowledge about the city - issues which impact the life of its citizens - through the citizen's contribution · Uses research as an educational tool · Opens up the process of research to everyone inside and outside the formal education system · Supports collaborative projects which encourage circulation of ideas and research processes. What is the Youth Fellowship programme? The Youth Fellowship programme at PUKAR is looking to assist young people - through financial, intellectual and material resources - to develop research projects based on their perspective about their city. Since 2005, working directly as well as through institutions, we have engaged with youth-led research projects which have helped about 600 youth in discovering many interesting things about their locality, their concerns and even themselves. For the year 2007-08, we are inviting young people based in the city to approach us for a dialogue about their possible participation in this unique and innovative programme. Each project receives a research grant of Rs. 60,000 for the duration of the Fellowship year. The Fellowship programme aims to: · Encourage youth in Mumbai Metropolitan Region to explore social, cultural, economic and political aspects of their neighborhood · Help the youth develop critical analysis and new perspectives regarding their locality and community · Encourage the idea of questioning established wisdom about city and the role youth can play in the present and the future of the city Who can apply? 1. Any resident of Metropolitan region of Mumbai. There are no educational or language qualifications 2. Any youth group with a creative idea is welcome to approach us to develop a research project 3. Anyone connected to the youth in some capacity and willing to develop a participatory research project 4. Individuals with an aptitude for participatory research and project idea but without a youth group may apply provided they are able to form a youth group by the 3rd June, 2007. Who could be a Youth Group? A youth group is any informal/formal group of young people willing to work with each other and PUKAR for the duration of one year. A few possible examples are: 1. Members of sports groups 2. Self employed or unemployed youth in the neighborhood 3. Members of various "mandals" 4. Group of friends who may be interested in a particular theme or a subject 5. Workers from the unorganized sector, from unlettered world. 6. Students from colleges or junior colleges in the communities 7. Youth belonging to a particular organization who are interested in research We encourage you to call and meet us to discuss your questions regarding the programme before March 15, 2007. (Translation of this text is available in Marathi) PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone:: +91 (22) 6574 8152 Fax:: +91 (22) 6664 0561 Email:: pukar at pukar.org.in Website:: www.pukar.org.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Write your comments ! http://pourinfos.org/index.php?commentaires=34302&categorie=elections @ 001 (21/02/2007) Exhibition : Georges-Tony Stoll, [42X60] association , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34280-tit--Georges-Tony-Stoll-42X60-association- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (21/02/2007) ))))) RadioList.org ))))) visual arts noise platform ((((( 8 http://pourinfos.org/art-34438-tit--RadioList-org-Plate-forme-sonore -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (21/02/2007) Residency : Eyebeam Residency Summer/Fall 2007, Eyebeam, New-York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34457-tit--Eyebeam-Residency-Summer-Fall-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (21/02/2007) Residency : Artist and Writer in Residence Opportunities, Gallery of Modern Art's Contemporary Art-GoMA, Glasgow, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34459-tit--Artist-and-Writer-in-Residence -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (21/02/2007) Residency : Multimedia artist residency, BCAT residencies, Brooklyn, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34460-tit-Residence-Multimedia-artist-residency- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (21/02/2007) Publication : New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07, London, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34462-tit--New-Reviews-on-Furtherfield-Feb-07- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (21/02/2007) Publication : The electronic democracy, n.327, la documentation Française, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34463-tit--La-democratie-electronique-n-327-la -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (21/02/2007) Publication : drafts of Franck Gehry, documentary Film of Sydney Pollack, on DVD, Pathe Distribution, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34464-tit--esquisses-de-Franck-Gehry-Film -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (21/02/2007) Job: Fundraising Coordinator, Cumbria, Lancashire, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34466-tit--Fundraising-Coordinator-Cumbria- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (21/02/2007) Formation : Create Usb Interface, Processing, Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif, Mains d'Œuvres, Saint-Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34468-tit-Formation-Create-Usb-Interface- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (21/02/2007) Exhibition : Opening of a new space, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34469-tit--Ouverture-d-un-nouveau-lieu-Lieu-Commun- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (21/02/2007) Exhibition : Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, the centre of attention, nüans, Düsseldorf, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34470-tit--Gemeinschaft-und-Gesellschaft-the-centre -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (21/02/2007) Exhibition : Festival Paysages Electroniques #3 (Electronic Landscapes "3), 5-8 April 2007, Palais des beaux-Arts, Lille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34471-tit--Festival-Paysages-Electroniques-3-5-8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (21/02/2007) Call : Next topic: “soda”,sos-art association, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34476-tit--Prochain-theme-soda-Association -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (21/02/2007) Call : Call for Papers: I4 / Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion, J W Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34477-tit--Call-for-Papers-I4-Interactivity- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (21/02/2007) Call : Multi-field International conference, cinema, music, arts and literatures, Universite Toulouse Le Mirail,Toulouse, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34478-tit--Colloque-International -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (21/02/2007) Call : Wired Madness, The Digital Art Weeks 2007, Cabaret Voltaire of Zurich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34479-tit--Wired-Madness-The-Digital-Art-Weeks -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (21/02/2007) Call : The city as an instrument, The Digital Art Weeks 2007, Cabaret Voltaire of Zurich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34480-tit--The-city-as-an-instrument-The-Digital -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (21/02/2007) Call : ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/art-34481-tit--ACM-Multimedia-2007-Augsburg- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (21/02/2007) Call : B.I.O., The Digital Art Weeks 2007, Cabaret Voltaire of Zurich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34482-tit--B-I-O-The-Digital-Art-Weeks-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (21/02/2007) Call : photo Competition of Pixelcreation.fr, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34483-tit--Concours-photo-de-Pixelcreation-fr- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (21/02/2007) Call : Homage to Brancusi, cmpetition of sculpture and numerical art for the Domaine national de St-Cloud, Centre des monuments nationaux, St Cloud, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34484-tit--Hommage-a-Brancusi-concours-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (21/02/2007) Call : ASCR Radiophonic festival 2007, Chapelles des Brigittines, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-34485-tit--ASCR-Radiophonic-festival-2007-Chapelles -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (21/02/2007) Call : 29th Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film, cinemed, Montpellier, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34486-tit--29th-Montpellier-International-Festival -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (21/02/2007) Call :"6 picoles cycliques..." 2nd, "l'usine à gaz", Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34487-tit--6-picoles-cycliques-2ieme-edition- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (21/02/2007) Call : " To produce instead of consuming ", VideoFilmfestival for „No and Low Budget“ , Ohne Kohle, Vienna, Austria. http://pourinfos.org/art-34488-tit--Produire-au-lieu-de-consommer-Festival -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (23/02/2007) Meetings : GRPS, Groupe de Recherche des Poetiques Sonores, On Friday February 23, 2007, centre international de poésie Marseille, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34401-tit--GRPS-Groupe-de-Recherche-des-Poetiques -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (23/02/2007) Performance : Soiree BLAH !, Friday February 23, 2007, Espace 1789, Saint Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34465-tit--Soiree-BLAH-Vendredi-23-fevrier-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (23/02/2007) Formation : Workshop, To try out space - configurations of the aesthetic experiment, February 23, 2007, Transversale in Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Allemagne. http://pourinfos.org/art-34467-tit-Formation-Workshop-Experimenter-l-espace -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (27/02/2007) Screening : OFNI, "Objet Filmique Non Identifie" (OFNI, “Filmic Object Not Identified”), imagespassages, Annecy, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34414-tit--OFNI-Objet-Filmique-Non-Identifie- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (27/02/2007) Various : L'ogresse lit...Pour rien*, evenings, Tuesday February 27, 2007, Ogresse, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34475-tit-Divers-L-ogresse-lit-Pour-rien-soirees -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (28/02/2007) Meetings : Eric Augier, Wednesday February 28, 2007, Observatory of the new media, Ensad, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34461-tit--Eric-Augier-Mercredi-28-fevrier-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From seafire at gmail.com Wed Feb 21 23:49:05 2007 From: seafire at gmail.com (s.) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:49:05 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] truth about Aurangzeb In-Reply-To: <5af37bb0702210811i6de4b244m3e7af096c05ea549@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070216173251.93797.qmail@web8415.mail.in.yahoo.com> <504043.39165.qm@web38913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <5af37bb0702210811i6de4b244m3e7af096c05ea549@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: doh! On 2/21/07, yasir ~ wrote: > > the truth about x > x as he was > > indeed x was bad. > > x = ? > > who gives an x about francois gautiers version of x > > as someone quoted mohsin makhmalbaf on the taliban blowing up the > bamiyan buddha in the film 'giant buddha' - it wasnt the taliban who > blew up the buddha, the buddha disintegrated in shame at the west' > indifference to afghanistan ! > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The contest is limited to young Indians residing in Delhi and NCR. No NRIs, please. Only one submission is allowed per person. The entry cannot exceed 500 words. Please pick one of the following themes for the story. a. Murder b. Bad Mother c. A Quick Smoke Entries should be submitted both in soft and hard copies, with a covering note that includes your contact details (tel. no., email address, snailmail address) etc. in a cover letter if sending by post or in the email. PLEASE DO NOT MENTION YOUR NAME ON THE SUBMISSION ITSELF. Entries should reach TFA by 15 April 2007. Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and not open to contestation in any forum. Entries should be sent in soft e-mail copy to tfadelhi at gmail.com and 3 hard copies should be sent to: TFA Contest D/377 2nd Floor Defence Colony New Delhi 110024. It is important that you send BOTH soft and the three hard copies. 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Experience shows that the judicial process although effective, in most cases is time consuming and expensive. While it is acknowledged that certain cases need judicial intervention due to the nature of the issues involved, a large number of cases can be settled amicably outside the Court through alternative means of dispute resolution (ADR), i.e., negotiation, conciliation and so on. ADR cells in other parts of the country have been very successful. Ms Anuroopa Giliyal, the Coordinator of the proposed cell has had four years of experience in running similar cells in Bangalore. While bringing the same experience to Delhi, the Society for Child Development has started a legal aid cell, an exclusive initiative to resolve problems of persons with disabilities. At the cell, apart from facilitating settlement, we also provide legal opinion and legal representation in cases where judicial intervention is the best option. Although, we offer services to all persons with disabilities, primary focus will be on persons from economically backward groups and persons with mental disabilities (mental retardation and mental illness) and their service providers and care givers. *Online Legal Cell* * * Further, as part of the legal cell, we also have started an online legal cell on our fairly popular website www.disabilityindia.orgwhere legal opinion is provided free of cost. The best feature of the cell is that it is exclusively for persons with disabilities. At the online cell we respond to all the queries from all over the country on various issues relating to disability. *Functioning of the Cell* The legal cell will function five days a week between 10 a.m – 1 p.m at the SFCD premises at M 63, Ground Floor, Lajpat Nagar II, clients will be seen with prior appointment. The phone number is 4172 7004 and the person to contact is Ms. Anuroopa Giliyal. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070221/48b7c770/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From neelimasayshi at gmail.com Fri Feb 23 09:03:22 2007 From: neelimasayshi at gmail.com (Neelima Chauhan) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:03:22 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Research proposal ; An online study of Hindi blogosphere and hindi identity construction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka Linkitt Mann" Message-ID: <749797f90702221933u51a2bf82p19301ae14c875eaa@mail.gmail.com> Following is translation intent of my proposal of a study of Hindi Identity Construction on Hindi Blogs. under Independent Research Fellowship. This research proposes to do an online study of Hindi hyper text on Hindi blogs. It will be an attempt to make a critical appreciation of Language and style of hypertextual prose as it flows through the terminals of Hindi Bloggers. It will be an online study which will take in account the existing blogs, Hindi Networks, Blog Archives, Comments etc. Narratives from Hindi Online community will be collected. Objective is to identify the construction of Grand narrative of 'Hindi Jati' (Hindi nationality) as described in Hindi Literary Criticism especially that by Ram Vilas Sharma. This construction of Hindi Jati with geographical space becoming meaningless (or less important atleast) will be explored. As research will be an online study therefore its progress will be available to all interested in real time. Findings of the work will be shared through a Weblog Publication and same will be presented at final workshop. Please note that original proposal in unicode hindi is available at http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_03.html So far apart from proposal a brief study of names of Hindi blogs is also available at http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_17.html while to newcomers here is a brief introduction to blogs http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_09.html Do send your feedback -- Neelima zakir Husain Post Graduate College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070223/59cf2970/attachment.html From hpp at vsnl.com Fri Feb 23 13:33:40 2007 From: hpp at vsnl.com (hpp at vsnl.com) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:03:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] European Parliament resolution on Untouchability & Dalit question Message-ID: >From V Ramaswamy, Calcutta cuckooscall.blogspot.com Below is a motion of the European Parliament, obliging India to act regarding untouchability and atrocities against Dalits. This resolution also comes in the context of the review of India's compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in hearings in Geneva on February 23 and 26. The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and Human Rights Watch have released a new 113-page report “Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination against India’s ‘Untouchables’,” as a “shadow report” in response to India’s submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This shadow report is available at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/ EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION OF THE DALITS IN INDIA P6_TA-PROV(2007)0016 The European Parliament , – having regard to the hearing held by its Committee on Development on 18 December 2006, – having regard to its resolution of 28 September 2006 on the EU's economic and trade relations with India (1) and Parliament's Human Rights Reports of 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2005, – having regard to General Recommendation XXIX (descent-based discrimination) adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 22 August 2002 and the 48 measures to be taken by the State Parties, – having regard to the study being undertaken by the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, in which draft Principles and Guidelines for the elimination of "discrimination based on work and descent" are being developed, and noting the preliminary report issued by the Special Rapporteurs on discrimination based on work and descent, – having regard to the various provisions in the Constitution of India for the protection and promotion of the rights of Dalits, concerning at least 167 million people, including the provisions on the abolition of the practice of untouchability, the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of caste, equality of opportunity in matters of public employment and educational, employment and political affirmative action through reservations in State-run institutions and political representative bodies; having regard also to numerous legislative measures ordering the abolition of some of the worst practices of untouchability and caste discrimination, including bonded labour, manual scavenging and atrocities against Dalits, – having regard to the National Human Rights Commission, the National and State Commissions for Scheduled Castes and the National Safai Karamchari Commission, dealing with the problem of manual scavenging, – having regard to Rule 91 and Rule 90(4) of its Rules of Procedure, A. whereas India is the largest functioning democracy in the world where every citizen is equal before the ballot box, India's immediate past President and Head of State was a Dalit and Dalits have served as ministers; whereas there are Hindu schools of thought which reject caste discrimination and exclusion as an aberration of their faith, B. whereas Dalits and similar groups are also found in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh, C. whereas the National Human Rights Commission of India has reported that the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act remains very unsatisfactory, and whereas it has published numerous recommendations to address this problem, D. whereas, despite twenty-seven officially registered atrocities being committed against Dalits every day, police often prevent Dalits from entering police stations, refuse the registration of cases by Dalits and regularly resort to the practice of torture against Dalits with impunity, E. whereas, despite the fact that many Dalits do not report crimes for fear of reprisals by the dominant castes, official police statistics averaged over the past 5 years show that 13 Dalits are murdered every week, 5 Dalits" homes or possessions are burnt every week, 6 Dalits are kidnapped or abducted every week, 3 Dalit women are raped every day, 11 Dalits are beaten every day and a crime is committed against a Dalit every 18 minutes (2) , F. whereas a recent study on untouchability in rural India (3) , covering 565 villages in 11 States, found that public health workers refused to visit Dalit homes in 33% of villages, Dalits were prevented from entering police stations in 27.6% of villages, Dalit children had to sit separately while eating in 37.8% of government schools, Dalits did not get mail delivered to their homes in 23.5% of villages, and Dalits were denied access to water sources in 48.4% of villages because of segregation and untouchability practices, G. whereas half of India's Dalit children are undernourished, 21% are "severely underweight", and 12% die before their fifth birthday (4) H. whereas untouchability in schools has contributed to far higher drop-out and Illiteracy levels for Dalit children than those of the general population, with the "literacy gap" between Dalits and non-Dalits hardly changing since India's independence and literacy rates for Dalit women remaining as low as 37.8% in rural India (5) , I. whereas Dalit women, who alongside "Tribal" women are the poorest of the poor in India, face double discrimination on the basis of caste and gender in all spheres of life, are subjected to gross violations of their physical integrity, including sexual abuse by dominant castes with impunity and are socially excluded and economically exploited, J. whereas the National Commission for Scheduled Castes has observed substantial under-allocation and under-expenditure of the allocation for Dalit welfare and development under the government's Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes, K. whereas Dalits are subjected to bonded and forced labour and discriminated against in a range of markets, including in the labour, housing, consumer, capital and credit markets; are paid lower wages and subjected to longer working hours, delayed wages and verbal or physical abuse, 1. Welcomes the various provisions in the Constitution of India for the protection and promotion of the rights of Dalits; notes however that, in spite of these provisions, implementation of laws protecting the rights of Dalits remains grossly inadequate, and that atrocities, untouchability, illiteracy, inequality of opportunity, manual scavenging, inadequacy of wages, bonded labour, child labour and landlessness continue to blight the lives of India's Dalits; 2. Expresses its concern at the low rate of conviction for the perpetrators of such crimes and calls on the Government of India to improve its criminal justice system in order to facilitate registration of charges against perpetrators of crimes against Dalits, to increase the conviction rate for such perpetrators, to significantly reduce the duration of court procedures; and to take special measures for the protection of Dalit women; 3. Welcomes the recent ban on the employment of children as domestic servants and workers in roadside eateries, restaurants, teashops etc. and urges the Indian Government to take further steps towards the complete banning of all forms of child labour; 4. Calls on the Government of India to take urgent steps to ensure equal access for Dalits to police stations and all other public institutions and facilities, including those related to its democratic structure such as panchayat buildings (the buildings housing local assemblies) and polling booths; 5. Applauds the fiscal policy followed by the Planning Commission of India and the various Ministries in the provision of the budgetary allocations towards the welfare and development of Dalits, and calls on the Government of India to ensure complete and time-bound implementation of all policy and budgetary measures towards the welfare and development of Dalits, including full implementation of the Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes; 6. Urges the Government of India to engage further with relevant UN human rightsbodies on the effective elimination of caste-based discrimination, including the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the UN Special Rapporteurs assigned to develop Principles and Guidelines for the Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent; 7. Calls on the Government of India to ratify the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and to take preventive measures to reduce the risk of Dalits facing torture, to take legal measures to criminalize torture in India, to take punitive measures to prosecute police who commit torture, to consistently provide rehabilitation and compensation for torture victims and to put in place an independent complaints mechanism for victims of torture that is accessible to Dalits; 8. Notes with concern the lack of substantive EU engagement with the Indian Government, notably within the EU-India Summits, on the vast problem of caste-based discrimination; 9. Urges the Council and the Commission to raise the issue of caste-based discrimination during EU-India Summits and other meetings as part of all political, human rights, civil society, development and trade dialogues and to inform the committees concerned of the progress and outcome of such dialogues; 10. Urges the EU members of the Joint Action Committee to develop dialogue on the problem of caste-based discrimination in terms of its discussions on democracy and human rights, social and employment policy and development cooperation; 11. Reiterates its expectation that EU development programmes in India include specific measures to ensure that minorities such as Dalits and Adivasis and other marginalized communities, tribes and castes, are able to close the wide gap with the rest of the population regarding the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals; 12. Recalls its demand that the Council and the Commission give priority to promoting equal opportunities in employment in private EU-based companies and encouraging EU- based companies to implement the "Ambedkar Principles" (Employment and Additional Principles on Economic and Social Exclusion Formulated to assist All Foreign Investors in South Asia to Address Caste Discrimination); 13. Welcomes the EU's commitment to the development of Principles and Guidelines for the Elimination of Discrimination on the basis of Work and Descent by the UN Sub- Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and urges the Commission and the Council to continue that support; 14. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments of the Member States, the President, the Government and Parliament of India, the UN Secretary-General, and the heads of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the International Labour Organization, the UNICEF, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. (1) Texts Adopted , P6_TA(2006)0388 (2) Derived from figures provided in Crime in India 2005 , http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2005/home.htm and http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2005/cii-2005/CHAP7.pdf (3) Cf. G. Shah, H. Mander, S. Thorat, S. Deshpande and A. Baviskar Untouchability in Rural India , , Sage Publications, India, 2006. (4) National Family Health Survey, commissioned by the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1998-99 (last survey available), Chapter 6, p. 187, http://www.nfhsindia.org/data/india/indch6.pdf (5) 2001 Census of India. From anivar.aravind at gmail.com Fri Feb 23 17:36:22 2007 From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com (Anivar Aravind) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:36:22 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Please endorse Campaign against STZ - Kerala In-Reply-To: <35f96d470702210459t521f0932ke6780b7c6939bc25@mail.gmail.com> References: <35f96d470702210453j40801d97j532ffef845f65c94@mail.gmail.com> <35f96d470702210456m7e6d309bke9a217230b1693bb@mail.gmail.com> <35f96d470702210459t521f0932ke6780b7c6939bc25@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <35f96d470702230406g2232d32dn1937df963a2f0b1e@mail.gmail.com> Reply to: forumkerala at movingrepublic.org =============================== Dear friends and colleagues, The Kerala Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan recently announced that the creation of Special Tourism Zones (STZ) would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. The government's plan to announce STZs in Kerala has to be challenged because it will augment the pressure over the natural and other resources such as land, water, forests and will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Now Kerala Tourism seems to be using "Responsible Tourism" for it's marketing, especially in the UK market. The recent workshop organised by Kerala Tourism mainly dealt with the responsibility of various stakeholders in further development of tourism within the state. But at the same time, they became mute on issues such as the constitutional rights of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts, backwater pollution by the houseboats and tourism industry and various social issues. Who is responsible for these damages? And for effectively addressing these problems? The need of the hour is the proactive involvement of the civil society against these malpractices. We request you to support our call for a larger debate on the true nature of tourism development in the state, on its questionable economic contributions and its negative impacts upon vulnerable communities and Kerala's fragile environment. If you can agree with the points we raised in our letter to the Chief Minister (attached), please get back to us by 25th Feb. (Please E-mail your endorsement to forumkerala at movingrepublic.org ) and by signing the letter, support it as it is. Or if you do not agree with all the points or want to raise additional points of your own, additional initiatives supporting the cause are also welcome. In solidarity Forum KERALA For more details please contact: Forum KERALA, C/o TC 354, Muttada.P.O, Thiruvananthapuram 25, Kerala. Phone Numbers: Ajayan – 9895007171, Anivar Aravind – 9446545336, Santhosh Kumar K.C. – 9447375708, Sumesh Mangalassery - 9388402948 About Forum KERALA -------------------------------- The Forum KERALA, a platform of civil society movements, people's groups and individuals who are sharing a common vision and mission related to Kerala Society – its developmental, environmental, social-cultural and political issues – at various levels. The Forum will take up research, campaign and mobilisation. We hope this will facilitate a creative space for the civil society groups and concerned individuals to come together and working for a better future. ====================== Open Letter to Kerala CM ====================== To Sri. V.S. Achuthanandan Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram. Sub: Appeal against the approval of Special Tourism Zones within the state. Dear Sir, We express our serious concern regarding the proposal for the new Special Tourism Zones on the lines of Special Economic Zones within the state. We are writing this letter to you in the context of Honourable Kerala Tourism Minister's statement on Special Tourism Zone during the inauguration of the recent workshop on Responsible Tourism organised by Kerala Tourism. Minister announced that the creation of STZs would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. The proposal for Special Tourism Zones has to be dropped because it will increase the pressure over natural and other resources like land, water, forests and will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Government should withdraw this move especially in the context of the recent controversies on Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Currently Kerala Tourism and industry says that Kerala has an upper hand in tourism since it is now a much sought after destination. So it is in the profiteering interest of the tourism industry to set up projects in Kerala. The state should not provide further incentives and subsidies to attract investments. Instead, the state should cut down existing incentives and subsidies and introduce new taxes for the people of Kerala to benefit from tourism. Kerala Tourism has a strong record of proving that planning, policies and regulations to date have not effectively addressed major problems caused by tourism. These include the unsustainable extraction of ground water in tourism spots such as Kovalam, which is causing a serious lack of drinking water for local communities. Problems also include the land speculation activities related to tourism especially in the coastal and backwater areas, and pollution of the backwaters by the tourism industry. The tourism industry has a significant role in spoiling the mangrove belt and the breading areas of fishes in the Vembanad Lake. Sustainable waste management systems are lacking in the state. The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts are a serious concern in the state, and so is the uncontrolled tourism development in Kovalam and Kumarakom, which has lead to many environmental and social problems. There are disturbing indications that prostitution including the commercial sexual exploitation of children is happening in tourist destinations in Kerala. Here, we request you to appoint a commission, where representatives of civil society organisations and people's groups should be part, to assess the environmental, social and economic damages done by tourism industry within the state before initiating new projects, plans and marketing strategies. We would like to bring to your attention to amend the Kerala Tourism (Conservation & Preservation of Areas) Act 2005, passed by the previous UDF government, which effectively strips Panchayats of their powers by constituting a committee dominated by bureaucrats. We also appeal your intervention to stop Kerala Tourism's move to use "Responsible Tourism" for its marketing. Foreign consultants with dubious credentials have either been approached by the government or have volunteered to showcase Kerala as an example of "Responsible Tourism" while no serious steps have been taken to even remedy the environmental and social damages created by irresponsible tourism development in State in the past four decades. We request you to stop the involvement of these industry-biased consultants in the development of tourism within the state. Copy to: Honourable Minister of Home Affairs and Tourism Sri. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. Honourable Minister of Finance Dr. Thomas Isaac. Media Release =========== Government should not allow Special Tourism Zones (STZ) in Kerala. ================================================= Thiruvananthapuram, 12/2/2007. Forum Kerala, A collective of civil society movements, people's groups and individuals urged Kerala Government to withdraw its move to introduce Special Tourism Zones within the state. The group also asked Kerala Government to appoint a commission, where representatives of civil society organisations and people's groups should be part, to assess the environmental, social and economic damages caused by the tourism industry within the state before initiating new projects, plans and marketing strategies. The forum also demanded that the tourism industry should give compensation to the affected people in the tourist destinations for its damages. The Kerala Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan recently announced that the creation of STZs would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. According to The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, the STZs will be on the line of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) and also offer the same facilities and incentives to the investors. The STZs are proposed to be located in the major tourist destinations, cities as well as along the coastline. The state government's move to introduce Special Tourism Zones has to be opposed because it will increase the pressure over natural and other resources such as land, water, forests and it will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats, with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Kerala Government should withdraw this move especially in the context of the recent controversies on SEZs. Currently government and tourism industry says that Kerala has an upper hand in tourism, since it is now a much sought after destination. It is in the profiteering interest of the tourism industry to set up projects in Kerala. The state should not provide further incentives and subsidies to attract investments. Instead, the state should cut down existing incentives and subsidies and introduce new taxes for the people of Kerala to benefit from tourism. Kerala tourism has a strong record of proving that planning, policies and regulations to date have not effectively addressed major problems caused by tourism. These include the unsustainable extraction of ground water in tourism spots such as Kovalam, which is causing a serious lack of drinking water for local communities. Problems also include the land speculation activities related to tourism especially in the coastal and backwater areas, and pollution of the backwaters by the tourism industry. The tourism industry has a significant role in spoiling the mangrove belt and the breading areas of fishes in the Vembanad Lake. The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts are a serious concern in the state, and so is the uncontrolled tourism development in Kovalam and Kumarakom, which has lead to many environmental and social problems. Sustainable waste management systems are lacking in the state. There are disturbing indications that prostitution including the commercial sexual exploitation of children is happening in tourist destinations in Kerala. Forum Kerala asked Government to amend the Kerala Tourism (Conservation & Preservation of Areas) Act 2005, passed by the previous government, which effectively strips Panchayats of their powers by constituting a committee dominated by bureaucrats. The statement issued by the forum also strongly criticised Kerala Tourism's move to use "Responsible Tourism" for its marketing. The forum views it with concern that in the recent workshop organised by Department of Tourism discussing the responsibilities of various stakeholders in further development of tourism within the state, issues such as the constitutional rights of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts, backwater pollution by the houseboats and tourism industry, child abuse and child labour in service industries in the state and various other social issues have been completely ignored. "Who is responsible for these damages? – And for effectively addressing these problems?" the Forum asked. Recent media reports revealed that "success stories" of responsible tourism in Kerala would be presented at the World Travel Mart, London. Foreign consultants with dubious credentials have either been approached by the government or have volunteered to showcase Kerala as an example of "Responsible Tourism" while no serious steps have been taken to remedy the environmental and social damages created by irresponsible tourism development in State in the past four decades. It has a come as a surprise to us that Mr. Harold Goodwin is announcing through the media that cases of "Responsible tourism" exist in the state!" Harold Goodwin, faculty at the Britain-based International Centre for Responsible Tourism, reportedly announced to the press in Thiruvananthapuram that "Since the World Travel Mart 2007 is being held (in London) in November, the biggest beneficiary would be Kerala tourism because there would be a separate session on responsible tourism and a few success stories of Kerala in this aspect would be showcased" (Source: Indo-Asian News Service, 3/2/07). How can he announce the presentation of such case studies now? If he can, he should reveal which are the case studies. The Forum asked Harold Goodwin that he should make clear how governments' proposal for the STZ would match with his theory of "Responsible Tourism"? The forum pointed out that neither the Tourism Department nor industry lobbyists can use such ploys to undercut the growing resistance to indiscriminate tourism projects and irresponsible tourism practices that negatively affect the local communities and their livelihoods in Kerala. The forum decided to continue the campaign to democratise tourism practices to ensure people's participation in the decision making process and to seek compensation for the victims of displacement, environmental destruction and loss of livelihood systems caused by tourism industry practices and policies in the state. For more details please contact: Forum KERALA, C/o TC 354,Muttada.P.O, Thiruvananthapuram 25, Kerala. Phone Numbers: Ajayan – 9895007171, Anivar Aravind – 9446545336, Santhosh Kumar K.C. – 9447375708, Sumesh Mangalassery - 9388402948 From jo at turbulence.org Sat Feb 24 00:53:31 2007 From: jo at turbulence.org (Jo-Anne Green) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:23:31 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Spotlight: "Zeno Boundary" by Kevin Hamilton Message-ID: February 23, 2007 Turbulence Spotlight: "Zeno Boundary" by Kevin Hamilton http://turbulence.org/spotlight/Zeno/ "Zeno Boundary" collects portraits of places regarded as public, created according to a prescribed photographic system. Images uploaded by contributors are dynamically animated into a looped sequence of pans and zooms through the space. The project originated in Spring 2006 as part of the Mobile Studios project, in cooperation with curators of the 13 Kubikov collective in Bratislava, Slovakia. After touring with Mobile Studios through Eastern Europe, the project continues as part of the 2007 Depauw Biennial Exhibition, in Greencastle, Indiana. BIOGRAPHY Kevin Hamilton (kevinhamilton.org) currently teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is appointed to the Painting/Sculpture and New Media programs. Recent work has included co-organization of a symposium series about Walking, and the creation of interactive artworks for gallery and public settings. His scholarship includes research on manifestations of absence in contemporary and historical telecommunication technologies, and development of new methodologies for interdisciplinary collaboration. Kevin has exhibited or lectured at festivals and art institutions in Spain, Holland, Slovakia, Hungary, Canada, and the United States. For more information about Turbulence Spotlights please visit http:// turbulence.org/spotlight Jo-Anne Green Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. 917.548.7780 or 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance: http://turbulence.org/blog New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070223/ee999c98/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From machleetank at gmail.com Sat Feb 24 01:02:01 2007 From: machleetank at gmail.com (Jasmeen P) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:02:01 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] WHEN DID YOU BECOME AN ACTION HERO? In-Reply-To: <277f58b70702230520k395d3a53p9b64c31e2b5765e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <277f58b70702230514o62a42651wc13286465fd1219c@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70702230520k395d3a53p9b64c31e2b5765e4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello! Last march 8 (Women'sDay), we had a blog-a-thon that asked you to blog stories of street sexual harassment. It began with an announcement on this blog that was picked up by bloggers across India, and soon in different parts of the world. We shared stories we had never shared before, sometimes stories we thought we had long forgotten, stories that we had often wanted to bury. We read each other, we linked to each other and we linked back to the Blank Noise Project blog. We were touched by each other's stories, moved by them, and, we like to imagine, drew strength and sustenance from the the long, cross-cultural chain of shared experiences. It's this strength that we're asking you to share experiences of, on March 8th, 2007. The baton is handed over right here, right now! Announce this on your blog and on the morning of March 8th, 2007, share with us a story (or two, or five or...) of fighting back?! When did you flip a situation so you could resist, when did you give back as hard as you got? When and how did you choose to confront? When did you become an Action Hero? Action heroes have formed the theme of the last few Blank Noise interventions and it's this spirit we ask you to share and celebrate on March 8 , 2007! So announce the blog-a-thon, and on March 8, share your action story! If you are a male blogger and wondering how you fit in, tell us about an Action Hero you know! To participate: 1. announce the event. 2. blog your story 3. email us about it and we will link you right away! Please email us at blurtblanknoise at gmail.com/ subject titled Action Heroes Online. Thankyou! Blank Noise! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks for posting this information and good luck with your work. My query is, are there some serious blogs which make hindi contents available in roman script. I can't read devanagiri script, but I still want to read serious work in Hindi, hence the query. When I say "serious work" I mean to say blogs which are not porns in Hindi in roman script. Whenever I try to search some Hindi words on Google, I get millions of pages full of description of sexual exploits or petty shayari. Regards TaraPrakash ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Neelima Chauhan *To:* reader-list at sarai.net *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2007 9:03 AM *Subject:* [Reader-list] Research proposal ;An online study of Hindi blogosphere and hindi identityconstruction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka Linkitt Mann" Following is translation intent of my proposal of a study of Hindi Identity Construction on Hindi Blogs. under Independent Research Fellowship. This research proposes to do an online study of Hindi hyper text on Hindi blogs. It will be an attempt to make a critical appreciation of Language and style of hypertextual prose as it flows through the terminals of Hindi Bloggers. It will be an online study which will take in account the existing blogs, Hindi Networks, Blog Archives, Comments etc. Narratives from Hindi Online community will be collected. Objective is to identify the construction of Grand narrative of 'Hindi Jati' (Hindi nationality) as described in Hindi Literary Criticism especially that by Ram Vilas Sharma. This construction of Hindi Jati with geographical space becoming meaningless (or less important atleast) will be explored. As research will be an online study therefore its progress will be available to all interested in real time. Findings of the work will be shared through a Weblog Publication and same will be presented at final workshop. Please note that original proposal in unicode hindi is available at http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_03.html So far apart from proposal a brief study of names of Hindi blogs is also available at http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_17.html while to newcomers here is a brief introduction to blogs http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_09.html Do send your feedback -- Neelima zakir Husain Post Graduate College ------------------------------ _________________________________________ reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques & Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> -- Neelima zakir Husain Post Graduate College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070223/2c34712f/attachment.html From anivar.aravind at gmail.com Fri Feb 23 17:34:47 2007 From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com (Anivar Aravind) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:34:47 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Please endorse - Campaign against Special Tourism Zones , Kerala In-Reply-To: <4bbf3fd00702211723r60f5fc74waeae8eb18b9eb485@mail.gmail.com> References: <4bbf3fd00702211723r60f5fc74waeae8eb18b9eb485@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <35f96d470702230404j6bee71d6m43b19d7081a90653@mail.gmail.com> Reply to: forumkerala at movingrepublic.org =============================== Dear friends and colleagues, The Kerala Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan recently announced that the creation of Special Tourism Zones (STZ) would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. The government's plan to announce STZs in Kerala has to be challenged because it will augment the pressure over the natural and other resources such as land, water, forests and will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Now Kerala Tourism seems to be using "Responsible Tourism" for it's marketing, especially in the UK market. The recent workshop organised by Kerala Tourism mainly dealt with the responsibility of various stakeholders in further development of tourism within the state. But at the same time, they became mute on issues such as the constitutional rights of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts, backwater pollution by the houseboats and tourism industry and various social issues. Who is responsible for these damages? And for effectively addressing these problems? The need of the hour is the proactive involvement of the civil society against these malpractices. We request you to support our call for a larger debate on the true nature of tourism development in the state, on its questionable economic contributions and its negative impacts upon vulnerable communities and Kerala's fragile environment. If you can agree with the points we raised in our letter to the Chief Minister (attached), please get back to us by 25th Feb. (Please E-mail your endorsement to forumkerala at movingrepublic.org) and by signing the letter, support it as it is. Or if you do not agree with all the points or want to raise additional points of your own, additional initiatives supporting the cause are also welcome. In solidarity Forum KERALA * About Forum KERALA * * * The *Forum KERALA, * a platform of civil society movements, people's groups and individuals who are sharing a common vision and mission related to Kerala Society â€" its developmental, environmental, social-cultural and political issues â€" at various levels. The Forum will take up research, campaign and mobilisation. We hope this will facilitate a creative space for the civil society groups and concerned individuals to come together and working for a better future. ============= Open Letter to Kerala CM To Sri. V.S. Achuthanandan Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram. *Sub: Appeal against the approval of Special Tourism Zones within the state. * Dear Sir, We express our serious concern regarding the proposal for the new Special Tourism Zones on the lines of Special Economic Zones within the state. We are writing this letter to you in the context of Honourable Kerala Tourism Minister's statement on Special Tourism Zone during the inauguration of the recent workshop on Responsible Tourism organised by Kerala Tourism. Minister announced that the creation of STZs would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. The proposal for Special Tourism Zones has to be dropped because it will increase the pressure over natural and other resources like land, water, forests and will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Government should withdraw this move especially in the context of the recent controversies on Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Currently Kerala Tourism and industry says that Kerala has an upper hand in tourism since it is now a much sought after destination. So it is in the profiteering interest of the tourism industry to set up projects in Kerala. The state should not provide further incentives and subsidies to attract investments. Instead, the state should cut down existing incentives and subsidies and introduce new taxes for the people of Kerala to benefit from tourism. Kerala Tourism has a strong record of proving that planning, policies and regulations to date have not effectively addressed major problems caused by tourism. These include the unsustainable extraction of ground water in tourism spots such as Kovalam, which is causing a serious lack of drinking water for local communities. Problems also include the land speculation activities related to tourism especially in the coastal and backwater areas, and pollution of the backwaters by the tourism industry. The tourism industry has a significant role in spoiling the mangrove belt and the breading areas of fishes in the Vembanad Lake. Sustainable waste management systems are lacking in the state. The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts are a serious concern in the state, and so is the uncontrolled tourism development in Kovalam and Kumarakom, which has lead to many environmental and social problems. There are disturbing indications that prostitution including the commercial sexual exploitation of children is happening in tourist destinations in Kerala. Here, we request you to appoint a commission, where representatives of civil society organisations and people's groups should be part, to assess the environmental, social and economic damages done by tourism industry within the state before initiating new projects, plans and marketing strategies. We would like to bring to your attention to amend the Kerala Tourism (Conservation & Preservation of Areas) Act 2005, passed by the previous UDF government, which effectively strips Panchayats of their powers by constituting a committee dominated by bureaucrats. We also appeal your intervention to stop Kerala Tourism's move to use "Responsible Tourism" for its marketing. Foreign consultants with dubious credentials have either been approached by the government or have volunteered to showcase Kerala as an example of "Responsible Tourism" while no serious steps have been taken to even remedy the environmental and social damages created by irresponsible tourism development in State in the past four decades. We request you to stop the involvement of these industry-biased consultants in the development of tourism within the state. *Copy to: * 1. Honourable Minister of Home Affairs and Tourism Sri. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. 2. Honourable Minister of Finance Dr. Thomas Isaac. Media Release *Government should not allow Special Tourism Zones (STZ) in Kerala. * * Thiruvananthapuram, 12/2/2007. Forum Kerala, A collective of civil society movements, people's groups and individuals urged Kerala Government to withdraw its move to introduce Special Tourism Zones within the state. The group also asked Kerala Government to appoint a commission, where representatives of civil society organisations and people's groups should be part, to assess the environmental, social and economic damages caused by the tourism industry within the state before initiating new projects, plans and marketing strategies. The forum also demanded that the tourism industry should give compensation to the affected people in the tourist destinations for its damages. * The Kerala Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan recently announced that the creation of STZs would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State. According to The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, the STZs will be on the line of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) and also offer the same facilities and incentives to the investors. The STZs are proposed to be located in the major tourist destinations, cities as well as along the coastline. The state government's move to introduce Special Tourism Zones has to be opposed because it will increase the pressure over natural and other resources such as land, water, forests and it will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats, with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs. Kerala Government should withdraw this move especially in the context of the recent controversies on SEZs. Currently government and tourism industry says that Kerala has an upper hand in tourism, since it is now a much sought after destination. It is in the profiteering interest of the tourism industry to set up projects in Kerala. The state should not provide further incentives and subsidies to attract investments. Instead, the state should cut down existing incentives and subsidies and introduce new taxes for the people of Kerala to benefit from tourism. Kerala tourism has a strong record of proving that planning, policies and regulations to date have not effectively addressed major problems caused by tourism. These include the unsustainable extraction of ground water in tourism spots such as Kovalam, which is causing a serious lack of drinking water for local communities. Problems also include the land speculation activities related to tourism especially in the coastal and backwater areas, and pollution of the backwaters by the tourism industry. The tourism industry has a significant role in spoiling the mangrove belt and the breading areas of fishes in the Vembanad Lake. The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts are a serious concern in the state, and so is the uncontrolled tourism development in Kovalam and Kumarakom, which has lead to many environmental and social problems. Sustainable waste management systems are lacking in the state. There are disturbing indications that prostitution including the commercial sexual exploitation of children is happening in tourist destinations in Kerala. Forum Kerala asked Government to amend the Kerala Tourism (Conservation & Preservation of Areas) Act 2005, passed by the previous government, which effectively strips Panchayats of their powers by constituting a committee dominated by bureaucrats. The statement issued by the forum also strongly criticised Kerala Tourism's move to use "Responsible Tourism" for its marketing. The forum views it with concern that in the recent workshop organised by Department of Tourism discussing the responsibilities of various stakeholders in further development of tourism within the state, issues such as the constitutional rights of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations by hotels and resorts, backwater pollution by the houseboats and tourism industry, child abuse and child labour in service industries in the state and various other social issues have been completely ignored. "Who is responsible for these damages? â€" And for effectively addressing these problems?" the Forum asked. Recent media reports revealed that "success stories" of responsible tourism in Kerala would be presented at the World Travel Mart, London . Foreign consultants with dubious credentials have either been approached by the government or have volunteered to showcase Kerala as an example of "Responsible Tourism" while no serious steps have been taken to remedy the environmental and social damages created by irresponsible tourism development in State in the past four decades. It has a come as a surprise to us that Mr. Harold Goodwin is announcing through the media that cases of "Responsible tourism" exist in the state!" Harold Goodwin, faculty at the Britain-based International Centre for Responsible Tourism, reportedly announced to the press in Thiruvananthapuram that "Since the World Travel Mart 2007 is being held (in London) in November, the biggest beneficiary would be Kerala tourism because there would be a separate session on responsible tourism and a few success stories of Kerala in this aspect would be showcased" (Source: Indo-Asian News Service, 3/2/07). How can he announce the presentation of such case studies now? If he can, he should reveal which are the case studies. The Forum asked Harold Goodwin that he should make clear how governments' proposal for the STZ would match with his theory of "Responsible Tourism"? The forum pointed out that neither the Tourism Department nor industry lobbyists can use such ploys to undercut the growing resistance to indiscriminate tourism projects and irresponsible tourism practices that negatively affect the local communities and their livelihoods in Kerala. The forum decided to continue the campaign to democratise tourism practices to ensure people's participation in the decision making process and to seek compensation for the victims of displacement, environmental destruction and loss of livelihood systems caused by tourism industry practices and policies in the state. *For more details please contact:** * Forum KERALA, C/o TC 354,Muttada.P.O, Thiruvananthapuram 25, Kerala. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070223/e7cafdc9/attachment.html From neelimasayshi at gmail.com Fri Feb 23 21:11:00 2007 From: neelimasayshi at gmail.com (Neelima Chauhan) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:11:00 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Research proposal ; An online study of Hindi blogosphere and hindi identityconstruction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka Linkitt Mann" In-Reply-To: <749797f90702230738s4852ac17p4a7370e980f8fb75@mail.gmail.com> References: <749797f90702221933u51a2bf82p19301ae14c875eaa@mail.gmail.com> <011601c7575a$032e5630$6001a8c0@IBM61525879EE4> <749797f90702230738s4852ac17p4a7370e980f8fb75@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <749797f90702230741x736094bdnbfa319df000cf0c1@mail.gmail.com> From: Neelima Chauhan Date: 23-Feb-2007 21:08 Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Research proposal ;An online study of Hindi blogosphere and hindi identityconstruction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka Linkitt Mann" To: Taraprakash Hello Mr Taraprakash, Well here I get first of the misconception.... See there is Not even a single genuine blog in Hindi (to the best of my knowledge) that serves soft (or core) porn in hindi. Sometime last month it started a sort of debate when Manisha (of hindinest.com) while describing hindi blogging said it has soft porn to very serious stuff (later when confronted she could not name a single hindi blog) But then why you face this problem..... simple because of google manner of keyword identification. since hindi (song, porn, sex etc) are favourable keywords therefore you stumbes upon sponsored (read advertised) webpages. these obviously are generally porn. I'll suggest you to try narad http://narad.akshargram.com/ for latest and serious blogs, but here is a catch- now with unicode that popular- almost nobody use romanagri (hindi written in roman script like क्‍यों is written as kyon) so you will face problem finding non devnagri hindi blogs. try shabdashilp a new effort of bridgeblogging hindi/english blogosphere http://shabdashilp.blogspot.com/ bye Neelima On 23/02/07, Taraprakash wrote: > > Neelima. Thanks for posting this information and good luck with your > work. > > My query is, are there some serious blogs which make hindi contents > available in roman script. I can't read devanagiri script, but I still want > to read serious work in Hindi, hence the query. When I say "serious work" I > mean to say blogs which are not porns in Hindi in roman script. Whenever I > try to search some Hindi words on Google, I get millions of pages full of > description of sexual exploits or petty shayari. > Regards > TaraPrakash > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Neelima Chauhan > *To:* reader-list at sarai.net > *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2007 9:03 AM > *Subject:* [Reader-list] Research proposal ;An online study of Hindi > blogosphere and hindi identityconstruction "Blogit Hindi jaati ka Linkitt > Mann" > > > Following is translation intent of my proposal of a study of Hindi > Identity Construction on Hindi Blogs. under Independent Research > Fellowship. This research proposes to do an online study of Hindi hyper > text on Hindi blogs. It will be an attempt to make a critical appreciation > of Language and style of hypertextual prose as it flows through the > terminals of Hindi Bloggers. It will be an online study which will take in > account the existing blogs, Hindi Networks, Blog Archives, Comments etc. > Narratives from Hindi Online community will be collected. Objective is to > identify the construction of Grand narrative of 'Hindi Jati' (Hindi > nationality) as described in Hindi Literary Criticism especially that by Ram > Vilas Sharma. This construction of Hindi Jati with geographical space > becoming meaningless (or less important atleast) will be explored. > As research will be an online study therefore its progress will be available > to all interested in real time. Findings of the work will be shared through > a Weblog Publication and same will be presented at final workshop. Please > note that original proposal in unicode hindi is available at > http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_03.html So far apart > from proposal a brief study of names of Hindi blogs is also available at > http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_17.html while to > newcomers here is a brief introduction to blogs > http://linkitmann.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_09.html Do send your > feedback > -- > Neelima > zakir Husain Post Graduate College > > ------------------------------ > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > -- Neelima zakir Husain Post Graduate College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070223/738a2bde/attachment.html From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Sat Feb 24 09:47:50 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:47:50 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] More Missing People, Crying Mothers.. Message-ID: This time, Samjhautha Express. Killing about 70 people on the spot. Another shot at making fear prevail over any attempts towards peace. The tragedy, security lapses, images of the suspects, and an image of a BSF man on a horseback alongside the train (that one on the front page of today's The Telegraph) are all over the newspapers and television. And Pakistan and India getting into a word of wars again. You think it's just the scale of the horror of the incident that makes the media jump on it so happily? I think thats just a part of it. Now, think Nithari. Another feast that the media has had in recent times, despite the news of the missing children coming out very late. What made it easy meat? Missing children? Skeletons? Crying moms? May be all of that, but looking closer, I see something common: An easy villain. (Almost every news report related to Nithari had Moninder Singh's photo with it. And for "us" on this side, there is an "easy villain" in ISI every time any act of terror happens in this country. This time it wasn't so easy, as most of the people who died were Pakistanis. Still the media is playing that "Pak hand" card, though in a more subtle way.). Here's another story that had both missing clildren and people continuously living in fear. And yes, it has crying Mothers too. Families of missing people from Jammu and Kashmir were on a day-long hunger strike day before (Thursday, February 22) in New Delhi. I heard this from a journalist friend in Delhi. I try googling but can't find anything on it in our leading "National" newspapers. The only news article I could find on this is from "Greater Kashmir", that calls it a "part of a campaign to mobilise public support against human rights violations in the strife-torn state." "Sixty family members of the missing people, mostly women, arrived here [Delhi] on Monday from Srinagar in a bus to participate in the campaign", goes the news. [The false encounter killings in Kashmir came to news again recently, with former Superintendent of Police Hansraj Parihar and his deputy in Ganderbal, Bhadur Ram, arrested for allegedly killing five south Kashmir villagers in fake encounters after dubbing them as Pakistani militants, for reward money. I had read that news at a couple of places but all I could find now with Google was a single Indian Express article: "There is a man who says his brother, a Special Police official, was picked up from home, tortured to death and to hide the truth..." Then a Kashmiri Observer article about a protest strike in Kashmir. And a statement in Peoples Democracy. Is there a filter working inside Google India like, say, the one in China? I am not sure.] -sudeep [also posted, with links to the refered articles, on http://sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com ] From vrjogi at hotmail.com Sun Feb 25 13:00:07 2007 From: vrjogi at hotmail.com (vedavati) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:30:07 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "Scientific Analysis" Message-ID: <200702250730.l1P7U7nv011691@bs1.cb.internal> vedavati wants you to check out "Scientific Analysis" a blog by "n.krishna". Scientific Analysis - http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/?hbx_camp=4 An analysis of christian population percentage and the percentage of below poverty population reveals a hidden fact that christianity breeds poverty ---------------------------------------------------------- ............. ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Blogsource http://www.blogsource.com/ Note: The personal information used to send this email was not stored and will be used for any other purpose. From sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in Sun Feb 25 15:45:56 2007 From: sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in (S Fatima) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:15:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati's "Scientific Analysis" In-Reply-To: <200702250730.l1P7U7nv011691@bs1.cb.internal> Message-ID: <444988.63023.qm@web8403.mail.in.yahoo.com> So, which religion breeds capitalism? Any guesses. --- vedavati wrote: > > vedavati wants you to check out "Scientific > Analysis" a blog by "n.krishna". > > Scientific Analysis - > http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/?hbx_camp=4 > An analysis of christian population percentage and > the percentage of below poverty population reveals a > hidden fact that christianity breeds poverty > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ............. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Powered by Blogsource > http://www.blogsource.com/ > > > > > > > Note: The personal information used to send this > email was not stored and will be used for any other > purpose. > > > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to > reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the > subject header. > To unsubscribe: > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From knsunandan at gmail.com Sun Feb 25 22:17:59 2007 From: knsunandan at gmail.com (Sunandan K.N.) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:47:59 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 40 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2a1c900c0702250847j54ff878fm5ef75d06c2f2e34a@mail.gmail.com> For those who don't have time to read the wonderful nationalist blog, which was suggested by vedavati, I will give a summary. 1. If you rank the terrorist religions No 1 is Christianity, second is Islam. At the third position we have our own obc and dalit castes who are anti national 2. Bible is copy of Mahabharata 3. The main hobby of both religious practitioners are to kill Hindus and install churches or mosques in place of temple including at Vatican 4. Syrian Christians are converted not from the Brahmin caste but from Pulaya caste and so they have nothing to be proud of (Note: it means if you are pulaya you are damned for ever) 5. Nehru's grandfather is a Muslim and so Nehru is out.. so Nehru memorials should be considered as babri-masjid and should be demolished. This include Nehru memorial museum, Jawaharlal Nehru university, the film by syam benagel produced with help of the former Soviet Union and which was shown on TV on Nehru's birth day. 6. Sonia is CIA -ISI - KGB agent. (the guy who wrote might not know the name of intelligence agency of Italy otherwise he would have included that also) 5. In short poor brahmins who are the real and only one nationalists are protecting our country against the majority terrorist which include Periyar, South Indians who talk against Hindi and against brahmins, and also they are fighting a big war to save our country against the whole world outside India because all of all them are inhabited by either Christians (though everything in Christianity is plagiarised from Hindus) or Muslims. If you think this is just another propaganda you are thoroughly mistaken.. This is scientific history. Some questions remains to be answered or if I say in the language of the above blogger, some more lies are to be revealed. I hope vedavaty will inform the blogger and help him to clarify these 1. The majority of historians (I know all of them are terrorists and anti nationals) try to propagate that the word Hindu was first used by Persians (Muslims terrorists) to mention the people beyond certain river or mountain. We should scientifically prove that it is wrong. We should claim that some Sanskrit text has already used the word Hindu. 2. then comes next problem. 'Scientific history' itself is a Christan concept. Brahmins wrote history in a different way. So we should not make claims in Christan way but should in traditional brahmanical ways. 3. We should write about this only in Hindi or in Sanskrit (English is a christian language). 4. We should not use Internet or computer or press to publish this because all of them were invented by Christians. We should write it in palm leaves and walk throughout Bharath and propagate it like Sankara did. We can hope that Narendra Modi (again the only real nationalist and may be the avatar of vishnu. Remember that Vishnu has promised us that he will incarnate whenever Dharma is threatened.) will lead us in sending all those who would not talk hindi (this include more than 80% of Indians) to hell, because they deserve . 5. Then Bharat will be a beautiful country with only present north Indian Hindi speaking brahmins remaining... The only problem in this project is that then who will do all the menial jobs because we brahmins are not allowed to do that by the divine order of Brahma?? Thank you vedavati for the information about the blog. I was just thinking of watching a third rate American TV comedy show.. Now no need.. thanks again Jai Sriram, Jai Hanuman.. From arshad.mcrc at gmail.com Sun Feb 25 22:22:54 2007 From: arshad.mcrc at gmail.com (arshad amanullah) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:22:54 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Urdu Journalism, Indian Muslims and Issues in Democracy Message-ID: <2076f31d0702250852g3337f59eg10fe5af546b7f51b@mail.gmail.com> Urdu Journalism, Indian Muslims and Issues in Democracy Association of Mohan Chiraghi with the Urdu Press dates back to years when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India. As the editor of Qaumi Awaz, a leading Urdu daily from Delhi, he has lived to many events which are seen as watersheds of modern India. He speaks his mind over issues related to democracy and the interplay between the journalism and Indian Muslims through the language of Urdu to Arshad Amanullah. Q: How do you look at the present scenario of Urdu journalism? A: Urdu journalism in India is a lost battle; both in terms of money as well as of job satisfaction. There is no channel through which you can know feedback of the readers regarding your writings. The reason is that Urdu journalism is no more a medium that can influence its readers in its own way. It has not established itself as a distinct entity. Q: Who are responsible for this state of affairs while once it used to be the most influential language journalism? A: Unfortunately, after the Partition the politicians, especially the Muslim politicians projected Urdu as the language of Muslims though the fact is that no language belongs to any religion. Had that been the truth, all Indian Muslims would have been speaking Arabic, the language of the Qur'an and all Hindus would have been speaking Sanskrit, the language of the Gita. Q: How did this affect the journalistic praxis of the Urdu Press? A: The notion that a language belongs to a particular religion, has serious implications on the editorial policy. Then one starts looking at all developments from a certain angle. It affects news-selection, copy-editing and editorial writing. This reduces a newspaper to the representative of a particular community, at the cost of ignoring the society at large. Q: Is Urdu Press honest towards raising the problems of even the Muslim community? A: No. It does not pay attention to the real problems of the community. It is the backwardness in education and economy which dogs the Muslims. A Muslim student generally drops out after standard 6-7. But nobody addresses these issues. If some attention is paid then to the madrasa education which has no relevance to the practicality of the daily life. Q: But where is the leadership? A: The predicament of the North Indian Muslim society is that its leadership lacks vision and rationality to take community to the path of development and prosperity. The visible faces of the Muslim leaders happen to be either an imam or a head of a religious institution. Though there are definitely some people who are working in the education sector, they do not enjoy any mass-acceptance as they do not inform the fantasy the community lives in. Q: Is Urdu journalism to be blamed for this sorry state of affairs? A: The Urdu newspapers have been capitalizing on the unreal aspirations of the community. Instead of debating its basic problems, they keep it busy with by and large only three issues: minority character of Aligarh Muslim University without knowing the meaning of the word 'university', Babri Mosque whether it will be rebuilt and Hindu chauvinism. They have exaggerated the extent of threat the community has been facing from the Hindu Right. It is true that there are chauvinist organizations among the Hindus but that is not the complete story. Had all Hindus fascist, India would have been a completely different country. Q: Vernacular newspapers are scaling new heights of progress. Do you foresee any chance for such a boom in Urdu Press? A: No, I do not see any. Presently, the situation is that circulation of some 'big' Urdu newspaper does not exceed a few thousand copies. They do not get advertisements due to their very limited circulation. If some company advertises products like betel, bidi, cigarette, etc in them, it does not get expected response. It is only the ads by quacks like Hakim Usmani promising stuff for eternal youth, get response. As these newspapers do not generate revenue, they do not attract talent. Q: Despite this bleak situation, some corporate media houses are venturing into Urdu journalism? A: I was very glad when a corporate house had started a daily newspaper in Urdu for the first time. But it also got stuck in the same morass we already have been trying to come out of. Q: How the Urdu press reacted to the Saddam episode? A: When Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, I wrote that he was an aggressor, not an Islamic hero. Consequently, my circulation heavily went down. In contrast, a newspaper which entered the market at that time, managed to push its circulation up to lakh copies, publishing glossy photographs of Saddam in different poses. As soon as the war ended, the newspaper came to a standstill. Once again he has become the priority of the Urdu newspapers. Though he was a great administrator, he denied his people democracy and destroyed the country for his personal gains. Then how can he become overnight an Islamic hero. My hats are off to the people of Iraq who are fighting against the neo-colonial forces but not to Saddam. It was he who provided the Neocons opportunities to invade Iraq. Q: How the Urdu media has been discussing the Sachar Committee report? A: It is not interested in discussing what went wrong with the Muslims that the situation has worsened to this extent. All are dancing to the tune of reservation for all Muslims as a religious community. But how many people will benefit from reservation? Harijans got it but it was only the upper class among them who seized the opportunity while others are still backward. No community in India can resolve its problems in isolation until it strives to mobilize a mass movement for the same. As soon as one starts doing something in isolation, the issue gets communalized. For this, we need a national outlook which reflects the Urdu ethos of North India but nobody thinks along these lines. arshad amanullah new delhi-25. From t.ray at vsnl.com Sun Feb 25 22:26:51 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:56:51 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 40 References: <2a1c900c0702250847j54ff878fm5ef75d06c2f2e34a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <001f01c758fd$f3175030$a400a8c0@Tapas> Thanks, Sunandan, for bringing us these gems from a "nationalist" mind at work ... or is it play? I mean, are these people serious? ... Sorry, bad question. Gujarat was not (and is not) play. It was (and is) dead serious work. > For those who don't have time to read the wonderful nationalist blog, > which was suggested by vedavati, I will give a > summary. From vrjogi at hotmail.com Sun Feb 25 23:58:31 2007 From: vrjogi at hotmail.com (vedavati) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:28:31 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin" Message-ID: <200702251828.l1PISVaO023215@bs1.cb.internal> vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific Analysis". Scientific Analysis - Post: http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 ---------------------------------------------------------- ........................ ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Blogsource http://www.blogsource.com/ Note: The personal information used to send this email was not stored and will be used for any other purpose. From vrjogi at hotmail.com Mon Feb 26 10:12:37 2007 From: vrjogi at hotmail.com (Vedavati Jogi) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:42:37 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin" In-Reply-To: <83253d810702251031x3d4da8a3i93c90fee6c03d393@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: this shows your level mr. abhik! when you people curse hindutv forces especially rss & family, we should not react but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't tolerate moreover you use such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it secularism?is it liberalism? vedavati >From: "Abhik Samanta" >To: vedavati >Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body >of muslim terrorist with pig skin" >Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 > >depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of wasting time thinkin shit >dont u have anyone to fuck > >On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: >> >> >>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with >>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific Analysis". >> >>Scientific Analysis - Post: >>http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 >> >>---------------------------------------------------------- >> >>........................ >> >>---------------------------------------------------------- >> >>-- >>Powered by Blogsource >>http://www.blogsource.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >>Note: The personal information used to send this email was not stored and >>will be used for any other purpose. >> >> >> >>_________________________________________ >>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. >>Critiques & Collaborations >>To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with >>subscribe in the subject header. >>To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >>List archive: _________________________________________________________________ Crave for a healthier lifestyle? Ask an expert http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default07.htm From yasir.media at gmail.com Sun Feb 25 13:14:20 2007 From: yasir.media at gmail.com (yasir ~) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:44:20 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] shehri In-Reply-To: <5af37bb0702242334o1e4758f3lec9408f9be04d845@mail.gmail.com> References: <5af37bb0702242334o1e4758f3lec9408f9be04d845@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5af37bb0702242344n3e1109cax182de33a5a0a6275@mail.gmail.com> register at info at shehri.org karachi needs a vigorous citizens campaign. be counted. http://dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm Kidney Hill By Ardeshir Cowasjee MY column last week was devoted to Kidney Hill, a 62-acre area lying between Karsaz Road and Shahid-e-Millat, the original 1966 park notification showing 18 acres of the total devoted to a water reservoir which would serve hundreds of thousands of citizens in the adjoining residential societies. It related how three statutory agencies, including the federal, provincial and city government, had signed in June 2006 an 'Agreement of Settlement' to unlawfully convert two-thirds of this notified park area neighbouring the Karachi Housing Cooperative Society area into residential plots for the benefit of the neighbouring Overseas Cooperative Housing Society (OCHS). (The agreement had annulled a 1984 Presidential Order forbidding any conversion or residential allotment in this area.) Fourteen affected residents and the NGO Shehri filed a petition in the Sindh High Court against this illegality. What was not mentioned in the column was that during the year preceding this 'Agreement of Settlement' members of the OCHS had several meetings with Sindh Governor Ishrat-ul Ebad on how this long standing matter could be resolved. The resolution eventually turned out to be the creation in the park of 120 residential plots of 400 square yards each, a project which would generate for various pockets and funds approximately Rs10 billion. The governor is quoted in yesterday's Dawn under the headline: "Parks to be city's identity : governor". He stressed that "parks and games activities were the guarantee of a peaceful atmosphere of any city and all round development activities were a manifestation of the vision of the government and the emerging parks in every part of the city were a reflection that the people want peace." Where does this leave Kidney Hill? The column also told how the 14 local residents of the Kidney Hill area, who had petitioned the Sindh High Court against the carving out of plots from parkland, had withdrawn the public-interest petition, stating "we regret not to elaborate a reason". It is a sad day for any country when the government of the day 'persuades' its citizens from pleading for their rights in a court of law. On February 22, 2007, an appeal by the sole remaining petitioner, Shehri, was printed in the Metropolitan section of this newspaper, dateline Karachi, February 20: "Shehri has been trying to save Kidney Hill, an amenity plot of park space in KCSH Union area. The case is fixed in the High Court for February 22, 2007. "Since the withdrawal of the 15 local residents, Shehri is the only petitioner left. Over the past two days, even Sherhri members have begun to receive threats on the telephone, warning them to get out of the case -- or else! "In order to diffuse the threat and establish that more residents of Karachi than just Shehri are actually interested in saving open spaces for our future generations, we are urging NGOs and concerned citizens to become interveners or to file a separate case that can be joined with our case."Are you interested? Call us immediately at 453-0646 or 438-2298, or send us a return e-mail on info at shehri.org." (Nothing much happened on the 22nd other than the filing of a vakalatnama by Barrister Abdul Hafeez Pirzada on behalf of the Overseas Society, and an adjournment of the proceedings to a later date.) In response, four concerned citizens and one NGO (Helpline Trust, Taj Haider, Arif Hasan, Navaid Hussain and me) have given their vakalatnamas to Barrister Gilbert Naim-ur-Rahman and an intervenor application has been filed in the high court. Reportedly, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is filing to be impleaded through Barrister Kamal Azfar. Additionally, a number of political personalities and city councillors, as reported in the lead story in the Metropolitan section of Dawn on February 21, at a joint press conference the previous day "reiterated their stance that the amenity plot could not be used for any other purposes, saying, the Gutter Bagheecha land was an amenity plot and no one had any right to convert it for any purpose. They recalled the land had been declared a national park and a gift to the people of Karachi by the president and warned that any attempt to convert it for any other purpose would be met with resistance. "[it was] also alleged that the government had made an underhand deal of the Kidney Hill Park land, alleging that attempts were being made to convert all amenity plots for commercial purposes." Our 'authorities,' those who direct the governance of this city and regulate our lives, and wittingly or unwittingly destroy and degrade our environment were quick off the mark following my last Sunday's column. The next day, February 19, the normal 'threats' began directed at certain citizens involved in the Kidney Hill petition, the usual bumph which unfortunately cannot be lightly dismissed as those behind it are well practised in violence. These threats have continued through last week, up to Friday. Inspector-General of Police, Sindh, Jehangir Mirza, and Chief Secretary of the province Fazlur Rahman have both been made aware of this somewhat dangerous situation and are taking full measures to ensure that no harm comes to citizens under their watch. The final paragraph of last week's column also told of the 'commercialisation' of the five-acre Webb playfield in the Lines Area of Karachi by the Army Welfare Trust and Makro-Habib for the construction of a 'Cash & Carry Store'. It emerges that Makro-Habib is an old hand at the conversion of amenity spaces. A number of residents of Model Town Society in Lahore have been battling in the Lahore High Court for the past year over the 'commercialisation' by Makro-Habib of 80 kanals (10 acres) of a garden plot in their society. Quoted hereunder is an excerpt from the November 11, 2006, observations of the learned single judge, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, in the judgment handed down in the writ petition dealing with the issue: "Similarly it was also stressed very vehemently that the proposed project constitutes economic growth and will bring financial benefit to the country, city and the locality. In this behalf, suffice it to say that no doubt foreign investment is to be encouraged but foreign investors are not above the law and must conform to laws of the land and must necessarily also exhibit sensitivity to the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the area. The learned counsel for the petitioner has rightly drawn the distinction between growth and development. The two concepts are not synonymous and all growth must be measured against the collateral damage accrued thereby. Even otherwise, growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." History will record the growth of various forms of 'cancer' in our society : the conversion of parks and playgrounds, the construction of grandiose projects on the remaining open spaces and beaches, the attempts to establish a 'world-class city' in Karachi, a city in which over half its population resides in katchi abadis, where a polluted and inadequate water supply is distributed, where 400 millions gallons per day of raw sewage is dumped into the sea. The case of Kidney Hill, if pursued, and if the 'authorities' understand and cooperate, may well provide a watershed in the case of our infected environment. e-mail: arfc at cyber.net.pk -------- register at info at shehri.org please forward. From amitrbasu50 at yahoo.co.in Sun Feb 25 23:45:31 2007 From: amitrbasu50 at yahoo.co.in (Amit Basu) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:15:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] Charitra In-Reply-To: <001f01c758fd$f3175030$a400a8c0@Tapas> Message-ID: <489047.22682.qm@web8512.mail.in.yahoo.com> Tapas Ray wrote: Thanks, Sunandan, for bringing us these gems from a "nationalist" mind at work ... or is it play? I mean, are these people serious? ... Sorry, bad question. Gujarat was not (and is not) play. It was (and is) dead serious work. > For those who don't have time to read the wonderful nationalist blog, > which was suggested by vedavati, I will give a > summary. _________________________________________ reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques & Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list List archive: --------------------------------- Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I was amazed to know that in a district adjacent to Kolkata, one particular village has witnessed more than hundred rapes (only 32 recorded in FIR) in a year! Nilanjan has dealt the issue with mastery and instead being prophetic or judgemental forces us to take positions and ends up with an open question on male sexual desire. The film is a gripping one and glues the viewer to the seat for more than an hour. It is a film that would be very handy for activists to provoke discussion and explains the myth around rape. I wish Sarai will be interested to screen this film, which I think is a rare documentation on this issue. --------------------------------- Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070225/e41d8e55/attachment.html From ravikant at sarai.net Sat Feb 24 15:32:54 2007 From: ravikant at sarai.net (Ravikant) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:32:54 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Fwd: Conference on Communication for Social Development: Discourse and Practice Message-ID: <200702241532.54693.ravikant@sarai.net> Dear All, Greetings from CMS! I am writing to inform you of CMS Conference on "Communication for Social Development: Discourse & Practice" scheduled for April 12-14, 2007 at University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. This is a three-day event for exploring the role and relevance of social, development, public service communication in increasingly market oriented, globalizing developing countries, with focus on in South Asia. Invitees include academicians, practitioners of social and development communication, international development funding agencies, representatives of civil society organizations, government policy makers, communication practitioners drawn from conventional media, advertising and business and industry sectors. We are proposing to forge a South Asia forum on social communication for serving as a clearinghouse for information on development and social communication research and create a platform for developing a south Asian perspective on social communication. The 3-day deliberations will focus on the politics of communication; research and evaluation in communication for social change and development; issues of access, copyright & patenting; ICT & new media for development; evolution and future of the discipline of 'development communication'; and sectors specifically to be taken up are environment, health, human rights, governance, and education. The conference registeration and 'call for papers' (extended abstracts) is open now. Please see our conference website www.cmsindia.org/csd for further details. Look forward to your participation in this conference and forum. best wishes & regards P N Vasanti Director CMS RESEARCH HOUSE Saket Community Centre, New Delhi 110 017, India P: 91-11-26522244/55 F: 91-11-26968282 www.cmsindia.org ============================== Dipti Kulkarni Researcher Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi www.cmsindia.org Phone Nos: 011-26522244/55 ============================== ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From shuddha at sarai.net Mon Feb 26 14:29:13 2007 From: shuddha at sarai.net (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:29:13 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45E2A161.8070202@sarai.net> Dear All, Let me clarify at the very beginning that I find the contents of the exchange between Vedavati and Abhit (which we have all been subjected to because of Vedavati's forward, with comment, of Abhik's off list email to her) sad and deplorable. While Abhik's language betrays an unfortunate misogyny, Vedavati's postings and responses are not exactly exemplars of liberality and tolerance. This is not the first time that Vedavati Jogi has posted material on this list that many on this list will find objectionable, just as there are many others on this list who post material that Vedavati, and perhaps some others on this list might have found objectionable. We have had other instances such as this in the past with others as well. The history of a list such as this grows to accommodate all manner of eccentricities, and that is a sign of the health and robustness of a free and open electronic space. It is in the nature of an unmoderated (that is uncensored) list such as this, that some people will use the platform to post material that many of us will consider reprehensible. However, I would suggest that one way to respond to such provocation is also to not necessarily dignify every such provocation with a response. Abhik Samanta has written in his private capacity to Vedavati, and not on the list. So his post (no matter how objectionable and misogynist its content may be, which I think it is, even though I can understand his outrage at Vedavati's clear act of hate speech) is not technically a breach of list etiquette. Vedavati's reply to Abhik which is addressed both to Abhik and to the list is however a clear case of someone dragging what is essentially a private exchange between two people on to the public space of the list. Doing so,without asking for the permission of the concerned persons (and there is no indication that she has asked Abhik) is a clear breach of list eitquette. As a list member, I would advise all other list members (including Vedavati, and Abhik) to try and refrain from blowing this issue out of proportion. I personally find the sentiments that Vedavati is asking us to consider (in the blog whose url she has forwarded) pathetic. I personally think that the real power of Hindutva-vadis lies in their ability to hog public attention. Just ignore what is said by Hindutva-vaids , be amused, at best by the sad level of the arguments and the rhetoric that they put forward, and see how powerful your unwillingness to pay attention to their agenda can be. I hope this puts an end to what might become an otherwise unpleasant distraction on this busy list. regards, Shuddha Vedavati Jogi wrote: > this shows your level mr. abhik! > > when you people curse hindutv forces especially rss & family, we should not > react > but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't tolerate moreover you use > such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it secularism?is it liberalism? > > vedavati > > >>From: "Abhik Samanta" >>To: vedavati >>Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body >>of muslim terrorist with pig skin" >>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 >> >>depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of wasting time thinkin shit >>dont u have anyone to fuck >> >>On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: >> >>> >>>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with >>>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific Analysis". >>> >>>Scientific Analysis - Post: >>>http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>........................ >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>-- >>>Powered by Blogsource >>>http://www.blogsource.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Note: The personal information used to send this email was not stored and >>>will be used for any other purpose. >>> >>> >>> >>>_________________________________________ >>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. >>>Critiques & Collaborations >>>To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with >>>subscribe in the subject header. >>>To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >>>List archive: > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Crave for a healthier lifestyle? Ask an expert > http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default07.htm > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Mon Feb 26 16:37:51 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:37:51 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] More Missing People, Crying Mothers.. Message-ID: [This was sent to the list on Saturday, but I didn't get it on the list yet.] This time, Samjhautha Express. Killing about 70 people on the spot. Another shot at making fear prevail over any attempts towards peace. The tragedy, security lapses, images of the suspects, and an image of a BSF man on a horseback alongside the train (that one on the front page of today's The Telegraph) are all over the newspapers and television. And Pakistan and India getting into a word of wars again. You think it's just the scale of the horror of the incident that makes the media jump on it so happily? I think thats just a part of it. Now, think Nithari. Another feast that the media has had in recent times, despite the news of the missing children coming out very late. What made it easy meat? Missing children? Skeletons? Crying moms? May be all of that, but looking closer, I see something common: An easy villain. (Almost every news report related to Nithari had Moninder Singh's photo with it. And for "us" on this side, there is an "easy villain" in ISI every time any act of terror happens in this country. This time it wasn't so easy, as most of the people who died were Pakistanis. Still the media is playing that "Pak hand" card, though in a more subtle way.). Here's another story that had both missing clildren and people continuously living in fear. And yes, it has crying Mothers too. Families of missing people from Jammu and Kashmir were on a day-long hunger strike day before (Thursday, February 22) in New Delhi. I heard this from a journalist friend in Delhi. I try googling but can't find anything on it in our leading "National" newspapers. The only news article I could find on this is from "Greater Kashmir", that calls it a "part of a campaign to mobilise public support against human rights violations in the strife-torn state." "Sixty family members of the missing people, mostly women, arrived here [Delhi] on Monday from Srinagar in a bus to participate in the campaign", goes the news. [The false encounter killings in Kashmir came to news again recently, with former Superintendent of Police Hansraj Parihar and his deputy in Ganderbal, Bhadur Ram, arrested for allegedly killing five south Kashmir villagers in fake encounters after dubbing them as Pakistani militants, for reward money. I had read that news at a couple of places but all I could find now with Google was a single Indian Express article: "There is a man who says his brother, a Special Police official, was picked up from home, tortured to death and to hide the truth..." Then a Kashmiri Observer article about a protest strike in Kashmir. And a statement in Peoples Democracy. Is there a filter working inside Google India like, say, the one in China? I am not sure.] -sudeep [also posted, with links to the refered articles, on http://sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com ] From rahul_capri at yahoo.com Tue Feb 27 07:51:43 2007 From: rahul_capri at yahoo.com (Rahul Asthana) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:21:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin" In-Reply-To: <45E2A161.8070202@sarai.net> Message-ID: <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> Shuddha, For whatever its worth, I dont agree to your divisive "us" and "them" labelling and tactics of promoting exclusivity and discouraging dialogue;which is akin to what our politicians want so that they have their own constituenties of voters who vote on non issues Precisely for the reason that I dont agree with Vedavati, I hope she continues posting here and time permitting I will try and have a dialogue with her,as I have in the past.And your bias is clearly visible when you somehow seem to understand Aviks post. I personally dont give a damn who said what to whom..(people have abused me in the past) but perhaps some of you who wear your liberalism and tolerance on your sleeve would realise how fake and hollow it is in the face of handling Vedavati's posts. Regards Rahul --- Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote: > Dear All, > > Let me clarify at the very beginning that I find the > contents of the > exchange between Vedavati and Abhit (which we have > all been subjected to > because of Vedavati's forward, with comment, of > Abhik's off list email > to her) sad and deplorable. While Abhik's language > betrays an > unfortunate misogyny, Vedavati's postings and > responses are not exactly > exemplars of liberality and tolerance. > > This is not the first time that Vedavati Jogi has > posted material on > this list that many on this list will find > objectionable, just as there > are many others on this list who post material that > Vedavati, and > perhaps some others on this list might have found > objectionable. We have > had other instances such as this in the past with > others as well. The > history of a list such as this grows to accommodate > all manner of > eccentricities, and that is a sign of the health and > robustness of a > free and open electronic space. It is in the nature > of an unmoderated > (that is uncensored) list such as this, that some > people will use the > platform to post material that many of us will > consider reprehensible. > However, I would suggest that one way to respond to > such provocation is > also to not necessarily dignify every such > provocation with a response. > > Abhik Samanta has written in his private capacity to > Vedavati, and not > on the list. So his post (no matter how > objectionable and misogynist its > content may be, which I think it is, even though I > can understand his > outrage at Vedavati's clear act of hate speech) is > not technically a > breach of list etiquette. > > Vedavati's reply to Abhik which is addressed both to > Abhik and to the > list is however a clear case of someone dragging > what is essentially a > private exchange between two people on to the public > space of the list. > Doing so,without asking for the permission of the > concerned persons (and > there is no indication that she has asked Abhik) is > a clear breach of > list eitquette. > > As a list member, I would advise all other list > members (including > Vedavati, and Abhik) to try and refrain from blowing > this issue out of > proportion. I personally find the sentiments that > Vedavati is asking us > to consider (in the blog whose url she has > forwarded) pathetic. > > I personally think that the real power of > Hindutva-vadis lies in their > ability to hog public attention. Just ignore what is > said by > Hindutva-vaids , be amused, at best by the sad level > of the arguments > and the rhetoric that they put forward, and see how > powerful your > unwillingness to pay attention to their agenda can > be. > > I hope this puts an end to what might become an > otherwise unpleasant > distraction on this busy list. > > regards, > > Shuddha > > > > Vedavati Jogi wrote: > > this shows your level mr. abhik! > > > > when you people curse hindutv forces especially > rss & family, we should not > > react > > but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't > tolerate moreover you use > > such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it > secularism?is it liberalism? > > > > vedavati > > > > > >>From: "Abhik Samanta" > >>To: vedavati > >>Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you > would like "wrap the body > >>of muslim terrorist with pig skin" > >>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 > >> > >>depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of > wasting time thinkin shit > >>dont u have anyone to fuck > >> > >>On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of > muslim terrorist with > >>>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific > Analysis". > >>> > >>>Scientific Analysis - Post: > >>>http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 > >>> > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>>........................ > >>> > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Powered by Blogsource > >>>http://www.blogsource.com/ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Note: The personal information used to send this > email was not stored and > >>>will be used for any other purpose. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>_________________________________________ > >>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > the city. > >>>Critiques & Collaborations > >>>To subscribe: send an email to > reader-list-request at sarai.net with > >>>subscribe in the subject header. > >>>To unsubscribe: > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > >>>List archive: > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Crave for a healthier lifestyle? Ask an expert > > > http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default07.htm > > > > _________________________________________ > > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > the city. > > Critiques & Collaborations > > To subscribe: send an email to > reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the > subject header. > > To unsubscribe: > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > List archive: > <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to > reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the > subject header. > To unsubscribe: > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. From kaustubh at houndbee.com Tue Feb 27 11:31:16 2007 From: kaustubh at houndbee.com (Kaustubh Srikanth) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:31:16 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] foodradio_network presents "live_feed : Snack City" Message-ID: <922fdfef0702262201k77f95f5cj45dd4e8ddbb1d06c@mail.gmail.com> foodradio_network presents "live_feed : Snack City" from the MediaWala Festival as the culmination of a two day workshop with local/international/remote participants exploring the culture and politics of streetfood. == CALL IN == CALL the SNACK CITY OPEN PHONE IN and talk to us about your favorite street food. Share the taste, smell and the sound of your favorite neighbourhood street snack joint live. Turn your phone into a microphone! 1. CALL 9818977450 (DELHI) 2. Listen to the phone ring twice and go quiet 3. You are ON AIR! == LISTEN LIVE == 8pm-10pm IST - Thu, March 1st free103point9 Online Radio http://free103point9.org/ == ABOUT THE foodradio_network == foodradio_network is an open and variable network of broadcasters and foodsters exploring the culture, politics and creativity of food as a medium and a metaphor for experiments in participatory and collaborative live radio. They regularly dish up aural appetisers on their show live_feed which plays on free103point9 online radio. live_feed @ MediaWalaFestival includes participants from Australia, India, Finland, America... and possibly also You! http://hybridradio.org/livefeed/ Snack City is supported: http://mediawalafestival.com http://free103point9.org/images/logo.jpg http://cmt.siba.fi/c/transp.gif -- Kaustubh Srikanth http://houndbee.com http://radioverve.com http://infinitymag.com From aman.am at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 13:39:46 2007 From: aman.am at gmail.com (Aman Sethi) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:39:46 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like "wrap the body of muslim terrorist with pig skin" In-Reply-To: <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <45E2A161.8070202@sarai.net> <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <995a19920702270009j2585e8d5raec7e1c418a411a4@mail.gmail.com> Rahul, I think (at the risk of mixing my metaphors) that you seem to be missing the woods for the trees while jumping the gun. While your willingness to engage with whoever you want is entirely your own decision, vedavati's posts don't seem to have much to engage with - they seem to be rather poorly wrought attempts at provocation. Your idea seems more an attempt to show her the error of her ways - something that you are free to do. What i would like to engage with is something that i have noticed in a huge number of posts on this list - particularly on subjects such as this one - the "pseudo-secularist", "hollow liberal", "supposed intellectual" label that is bandied abt with much freedom. The idea behind such labels seems to be to prove to people that they arent really who they think they are - but are infact imposters masquerading as "liberals", "secularists", or "intellectuals". Why? Why the urge to a) affix a label onto the object of ure ire- and b) to try and tear from them any ideas they might have of themselves - it is indeed a disturbing practice. Best A. On 2/27/07, Rahul Asthana wrote: > > Shuddha, > For whatever its worth, I dont agree to your divisive > "us" and "them" labelling and tactics of promoting > exclusivity and discouraging dialogue;which is akin to > what our politicians want so that they have their own > constituenties of voters who vote on non issues > Precisely for the reason that I dont agree with > Vedavati, I hope she continues posting here and time > permitting I will try and have a dialogue with her,as > I have in the past.And your bias is clearly visible > when you somehow seem to understand Aviks post. > I personally dont give a damn who said what to > whom..(people have abused me in the past) but perhaps > some of you who wear your liberalism and tolerance on > your sleeve would realise how fake and hollow it is in > the face of handling Vedavati's posts. > Regards > Rahul > --- Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > Let me clarify at the very beginning that I find the > > contents of the > > exchange between Vedavati and Abhit (which we have > > all been subjected to > > because of Vedavati's forward, with comment, of > > Abhik's off list email > > to her) sad and deplorable. While Abhik's language > > betrays an > > unfortunate misogyny, Vedavati's postings and > > responses are not exactly > > exemplars of liberality and tolerance. > > > > This is not the first time that Vedavati Jogi has > > posted material on > > this list that many on this list will find > > objectionable, just as there > > are many others on this list who post material that > > Vedavati, and > > perhaps some others on this list might have found > > objectionable. We have > > had other instances such as this in the past with > > others as well. The > > history of a list such as this grows to accommodate > > all manner of > > eccentricities, and that is a sign of the health and > > robustness of a > > free and open electronic space. It is in the nature > > of an unmoderated > > (that is uncensored) list such as this, that some > > people will use the > > platform to post material that many of us will > > consider reprehensible. > > However, I would suggest that one way to respond to > > such provocation is > > also to not necessarily dignify every such > > provocation with a response. > > > > Abhik Samanta has written in his private capacity to > > Vedavati, and not > > on the list. So his post (no matter how > > objectionable and misogynist its > > content may be, which I think it is, even though I > > can understand his > > outrage at Vedavati's clear act of hate speech) is > > not technically a > > breach of list etiquette. > > > > Vedavati's reply to Abhik which is addressed both to > > Abhik and to the > > list is however a clear case of someone dragging > > what is essentially a > > private exchange between two people on to the public > > space of the list. > > Doing so,without asking for the permission of the > > concerned persons (and > > there is no indication that she has asked Abhik) is > > a clear breach of > > list eitquette. > > > > As a list member, I would advise all other list > > members (including > > Vedavati, and Abhik) to try and refrain from blowing > > this issue out of > > proportion. I personally find the sentiments that > > Vedavati is asking us > > to consider (in the blog whose url she has > > forwarded) pathetic. > > > > I personally think that the real power of > > Hindutva-vadis lies in their > > ability to hog public attention. Just ignore what is > > said by > > Hindutva-vaids , be amused, at best by the sad level > > of the arguments > > and the rhetoric that they put forward, and see how > > powerful your > > unwillingness to pay attention to their agenda can > > be. > > > > I hope this puts an end to what might become an > > otherwise unpleasant > > distraction on this busy list. > > > > regards, > > > > Shuddha > > > > > > > > Vedavati Jogi wrote: > > > this shows your level mr. abhik! > > > > > > when you people curse hindutv forces especially > > rss & family, we should not > > > react > > > but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't > > tolerate moreover you use > > > such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it > > secularism?is it liberalism? > > > > > > vedavati > > > > > > > > >>From: "Abhik Samanta" > > >>To: vedavati > > >>Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you > > would like "wrap the body > > >>of muslim terrorist with pig skin" > > >>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 > > >> > > >>depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of > > wasting time thinkin shit > > >>dont u have anyone to fuck > > >> > > >>On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: > > >> > > >>> > > >>>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of > > muslim terrorist with > > >>>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific > > Analysis". > > >>> > > >>>Scientific Analysis - Post: > > > >>> > http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 > > >>> > > > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>>........................ > > >>> > > > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>>-- > > >>>Powered by Blogsource > > >>>http://www.blogsource.com/ > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>Note: The personal information used to send this > > email was not stored and > > >>>will be used for any other purpose. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>_________________________________________ > > >>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > > the city. > > >>>Critiques & Collaborations > > >>>To subscribe: send an email to > > reader-list-request at sarai.net with > > >>>subscribe in the subject header. > > >>>To unsubscribe: > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > >>>List archive: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Crave for a healthier lifestyle? 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Free and open to all! This Floating Points event will start with Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz both presenting their positions about opportunities and problems with participation in sociable web media. They will then discuss each others argumentation and end with a debate open to the public at large. The sheer scale of current networked sociality demonstrates the potential of sociable web media to democratize society through emerging cultures of broad participation. While phenomena like information overload accompanied the emergence of communication technologies for a very long time, this current social turn is new. Millions of people can now perform themselves as speakers, which is more pertinent than the question of quality or even political orientation of the produced content. In his presentation, titled "The Participatory Challenge," Trebor Scholz will investigate the affordances of sociable web media by looking at examples of the different intensities and motivations for participation in sociable web media and their effects. Is production the new consumption? In "Networked participation: Wisdom of crowds or stupidity of masses?" Ulises Mejias will assess whether sociable web media can live up to its promise of reinvigorating the public sphere. While participatory networks are certainly posing an alternative to the ways in which the old mass media generates and disseminates messages, there is increasing skepticism about their ability to transform this aggregation of (mostly self-referential) information into meaningful social change. Furthermore, participatory media networks run the risk of being appropriated by the same mass media networks that contribute to the alienation of the individual within society. 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Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From shuddha at sarai.net Tue Feb 27 15:22:13 2007 From: shuddha at sarai.net (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:13 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] How Fake and How Hollow In-Reply-To: <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <45E3FF4D.7060400@sarai.net> Dear Rahul, Vedavati, Abhik (and everyone else on this list) 1. Every list member is free to express their views on this list. This list does not have a policy of banning any member, or censoring content. This is not going to change. I think that the value of the freedom of expression on this list is far greater than the consequences of having to deal occasionally with the excesses of some of our fellow members. If we ban Vedavati for something that she may have said, then we will set an unfortunate precedent by which people may keep calling for bans on people they do not agree with, eventually, this will lead to the death of debate and dissent on this list. I would not like things to come to such a pass. 2. I have never suggested that Vedavati be banned, or that her posts be censored, neither now, nor on earlier occasions. So, I do not quite see how 'fake and hollow...the liberalism and tolerance' that I 'wear on (my) sleeve is in the face of handling Vedavati's posts' actually is. (as has been suggested by Rahul Asthana). If anyone else actually sees how 'fake and hollow' it is, I would be grateful if they could enlighten me, so that I can take measures to endow my liberality and tolerance with authenticity and depth. I had suggested that spats of this nature (as had occurred between Vedavati and Abhik) be ignored in the larger interests of the discursive life of this list. To advise fellow list members to ignore a provocation is not the same as asking for the provocator to be banned. Until and unless it can be demonstrated that I have asked for a gag order on Vedavati, it remains to be demonstrated as to how fake and hollow my liberality and tolerance actually are. I am willing to wait patiently for that to be demonstrated. 3. An aside : I find Sunandan's responses to 'Vedavatism' very appropriate, and I think that hindutva apologists are best disarmed with a refined sense of the absurd. Sunandan's response has a sophistication that I find it possible to learn from. 4. I prefer visible to invisible biases. My biases have never been invisible. I take special care to render them visible in everything I write. I think this makes for transparent and open debate. 5. The responsibility of being a participant in a free and uncensored list requires me occasionally to make my stand clear, in this case, I have only stated that I disagree with neither the content of Vedavati's interventions, nor the tenor of Abhik Samanta's response to those interventions. Failing to do so, would make me complicit in endorsing one or the other of these stances. I wish to do neither. 6. To fight what I think is secterian hatred with misogyny seems to me to betray a poverty of discursive imagination. I hope that the list can rise above this, and would welcome (if others so desire) a serious debate on issues of religion, nationalism and identity on the list. It would be preferable if such a debate could articulate a complex range of issues without getting stuck in the rut of the vocabulary of reciprocal abuse and name calling, so that we dont have to waste our time and limited attention spans in clearing the air in the wake of particularly offensive posts. At the risk of repetition, let me state that I would personally welcome a serious intervention from Vedavati, or from any person sympathetic to her positions, that can be debated seriously, without anyone having to deal with the detritus of personal and ad hominem attacks. 7. To do this, we (including Vedavati, or Abhik, or anyone else) do not necessarily have to descend to the level of references to the desirability of 'wrapping the bodies of muslim terrorists pigs' or to references to a fellow list member's personal life (or lack of it). 8. If anyone chooses to do so, it can only be seen as evidence of their propensity for grandstanding, their willingness to be trapped in a never ending game of reciprocal abuse, and a profound lack of seriousnes. 9.Finally, I think everyone's point of view, no matter how objectionable it may be to anyone else, deserves a fair hearing, but I also think that this does mean that a person who sort of keeps grinding away at monotonously offensive register riskes having themselves ignored by others on the list. Eventually they may well find themselves isolated. This list will never ban anyone, but a list that does not ban is also very good at ignoring, isolating and cornering posters who deliberately, and time and again make offensive postings. I would suggest that it be understood that being ignored, isolated, cornered and exposed is a fate far worse than being banned, because it does not come laden with the promise of the potential glamour of being identified as someone who is subject to censorship. Sometimes, to not be censored for what one says is far more damaging to the self than to be censored for what one says. I hope Vedavati and Abhik both understand this, because each callous statement that they (or anyone else) make(s) only exposes them further in the eyes of this entire discursive community. Enough said, now I would like to get back to work and get on with my life, thank you, and apologies in advance for any offence caused deliberately, or inadvertently to anyone on this list by this post. I mean that seriously. regards Shuddha Rahul Asthana wrote: > Shuddha, > For whatever its worth, I dont agree to your divisive > "us" and "them" labelling and tactics of promoting > exclusivity and discouraging dialogue;which is akin to > what our politicians want so that they have their own > constituenties of voters who vote on non issues > Precisely for the reason that I dont agree with > Vedavati, I hope she continues posting here and time > permitting I will try and have a dialogue with her,as > I have in the past.And your bias is clearly visible > when you somehow seem to understand Aviks post. > I personally dont give a damn who said what to > whom..(people have abused me in the past) but perhaps > some of you who wear your liberalism and tolerance on > your sleeve would realise how fake and hollow it is in > the face of handling Vedavati's posts. > Regards > Rahul > --- Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote: > > >>Dear All, >> >>Let me clarify at the very beginning that I find the >>contents of the >>exchange between Vedavati and Abhit (which we have >>all been subjected to >>because of Vedavati's forward, with comment, of >>Abhik's off list email >>to her) sad and deplorable. While Abhik's language >>betrays an >>unfortunate misogyny, Vedavati's postings and >>responses are not exactly >>exemplars of liberality and tolerance. >> >>This is not the first time that Vedavati Jogi has >>posted material on >>this list that many on this list will find >>objectionable, just as there >>are many others on this list who post material that >>Vedavati, and >>perhaps some others on this list might have found >>objectionable. We have >>had other instances such as this in the past with >>others as well. The >>history of a list such as this grows to accommodate >>all manner of >>eccentricities, and that is a sign of the health and >>robustness of a >>free and open electronic space. It is in the nature >>of an unmoderated >>(that is uncensored) list such as this, that some >>people will use the >>platform to post material that many of us will >>consider reprehensible. >>However, I would suggest that one way to respond to >>such provocation is >>also to not necessarily dignify every such >>provocation with a response. >> >>Abhik Samanta has written in his private capacity to >>Vedavati, and not >>on the list. So his post (no matter how >>objectionable and misogynist its >>content may be, which I think it is, even though I >>can understand his >>outrage at Vedavati's clear act of hate speech) is >>not technically a >>breach of list etiquette. >> >>Vedavati's reply to Abhik which is addressed both to >>Abhik and to the >>list is however a clear case of someone dragging >>what is essentially a >>private exchange between two people on to the public >>space of the list. >>Doing so,without asking for the permission of the >>concerned persons (and >>there is no indication that she has asked Abhik) is >>a clear breach of >>list eitquette. >> >>As a list member, I would advise all other list >>members (including >>Vedavati, and Abhik) to try and refrain from blowing >>this issue out of >>proportion. I personally find the sentiments that >>Vedavati is asking us >>to consider (in the blog whose url she has >>forwarded) pathetic. >> >>I personally think that the real power of >>Hindutva-vadis lies in their >>ability to hog public attention. Just ignore what is >>said by >>Hindutva-vaids , be amused, at best by the sad level >>of the arguments >>and the rhetoric that they put forward, and see how >>powerful your >>unwillingness to pay attention to their agenda can >>be. >> >>I hope this puts an end to what might become an >>otherwise unpleasant >>distraction on this busy list. >> >>regards, >> >>Shuddha >> >> >> >>Vedavati Jogi wrote: >> >>>this shows your level mr. abhik! >>> >>>when you people curse hindutv forces especially >> >>rss & family, we should not >> >>>react >>>but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't >> >>tolerate moreover you use >> >>>such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it >> >>secularism?is it liberalism? >> >>>vedavati >>> >>> >>> >>>>From: "Abhik Samanta" >>>>To: vedavati >>>>Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you >> >>would like "wrap the body >> >>>>of muslim terrorist with pig skin" >>>>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 >>>> >>>>depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of >> >>wasting time thinkin shit >> >>>>dont u have anyone to fuck >>>> >>>>On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of >> >>muslim terrorist with >> >>>>>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific >> >>Analysis". >> >>>>>Scientific Analysis - Post: >> >>>>http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 >>>> >>>>---------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>>>........................ >>>>> >> >>>>---------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Powered by Blogsource >>>>>http://www.blogsource.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Note: The personal information used to send this >> >>email was not stored and >> >>>>>will be used for any other purpose. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>_________________________________________ >>>>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and >> >>the city. >> >>>>>Critiques & Collaborations >>>>>To subscribe: send an email to >> >>reader-list-request at sarai.net with >> >>>>>subscribe in the subject header. >>>>>To unsubscribe: >> >>https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >> >>>>>List archive: >> >> >> >>> >>> > _________________________________________________________________ > >>>Crave for a healthier lifestyle? Ask an expert >>> >> > http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default07.htm > >>>_________________________________________ >>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and >> >>the city. >> >>>Critiques & Collaborations >>>To subscribe: send an email to >> >>reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the >>subject header. >> >>>To unsubscribe: >> >>https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >> >>>List archive: >> >><https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> >> >>_________________________________________ >>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and >>the city. >>Critiques & Collaborations >>To subscribe: send an email to >>reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the >>subject header. >>To unsubscribe: >>https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list >>List archive: > > <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> From jeebesh at sarai.net Tue Feb 27 16:49:53 2007 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh Bagchi) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:49:53 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you would like ........ In-Reply-To: <995a19920702270009j2585e8d5raec7e1c418a411a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <45E2A161.8070202@sarai.net> <248881.99293.qm@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> <995a19920702270009j2585e8d5raec7e1c418a411a4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: This debate has a very ambivalent undercurrent. The ambivalence is around the "assumed critical consensus" of the list members. Most "critical" writing mounts its position or analysis on such a consensus . Usually the consensus is guessed or approximated ("anuman lagate hain") and we carry on with the work of "critique". But given the fractious nature of contemporary intellectual life, consensus is much more fragile and breaks down with a little provocation (thus deliberate provocations work well as a tactics.) The problem is how to think about the "zone of breakdown". (we are surrounded by this point of breakdown and I am sure in our love lives we have learnt a few lessons about it :-) What breaks down? Is there a fear associated with this breakdown? What is the nature of this fear? Responses of exasperation or abuse or rage or moral righteousness or a defense of oneself do not address this question. The interesting question is how do we listen when faced with this "breakdown"? Do we act as if nothing has happened? Or hurriedly act to rectify thinking that something (wrong or bad) can happen? Or find a way to think what is at stake when faced with the uncertain and nameless terrain opened up by the breakdown? Is it possible to have a free and transparent mode of writing? Isn't all writing an attempt to grapple with multiple and contradictory impulses, and thus lists can best survive as a mass of chaotic utterances, rather than a affirmative and comforting space? I would think this ambivalence could be seen as productive and creative. Was discussing an audio recording of a PR person of a security industry with my colleague Iram, and both of us were surprised how much of the text of this PR persuasion exercise was based of an assumed consensus around security and thus making possible the speech act of the PR agent. The PR agent needed our fear, our sense of threat, our fascination with technology and our surrender to bounded space. (to unpack this is really difficult intellectual exercise as we realized over a few days.) warmly jeebesh On 27-Feb-07, at 1:39 PM, Aman Sethi wrote: > Rahul, > > I think (at the risk of mixing my metaphors) that you seem to be > missing the woods for the trees while jumping the gun. While your > willingness to engage with whoever you want is entirely your own > decision, vedavati's posts don't seem to have much to engage with - > they seem to be rather poorly wrought attempts at provocation. > Your idea seems more an attempt to show her the error of her ways - > something that you are free to do. > > What i would like to engage with is something that i have noticed > in a huge number of posts on this list - particularly on subjects > such as this one - the "pseudo-secularist", "hollow liberal", > "supposed intellectual" label that is bandied abt with much > freedom. The idea behind such labels seems to be to prove to > people that they arent really who they think they are - but are > infact imposters masquerading as "liberals", "secularists", or > "intellectuals". Why? Why the urge to a) affix a label onto the > object of ure ire- and b) to try and tear from them any ideas they > might have of themselves - it is indeed a disturbing practice. > > Best > A. > > On 2/27/07, Rahul Asthana wrote: Shuddha, > For whatever its worth, I dont agree to your divisive > "us" and "them" labelling and tactics of promoting > exclusivity and discouraging dialogue;which is akin to > what our politicians want so that they have their own > constituenties of voters who vote on non issues > Precisely for the reason that I dont agree with > Vedavati, I hope she continues posting here and time > permitting I will try and have a dialogue with her,as > I have in the past.And your bias is clearly visible > when you somehow seem to understand Aviks post. > I personally dont give a damn who said what to > whom..(people have abused me in the past) but perhaps > some of you who wear your liberalism and tolerance on > your sleeve would realise how fake and hollow it is in > the face of handling Vedavati's posts. > Regards > Rahul > --- Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > Let me clarify at the very beginning that I find the > > contents of the > > exchange between Vedavati and Abhit (which we have > > all been subjected to > > because of Vedavati's forward, with comment, of > > Abhik's off list email > > to her) sad and deplorable. While Abhik's language > > betrays an > > unfortunate misogyny, Vedavati's postings and > > responses are not exactly > > exemplars of liberality and tolerance. > > > > This is not the first time that Vedavati Jogi has > > posted material on > > this list that many on this list will find > > objectionable, just as there > > are many others on this list who post material that > > Vedavati, and > > perhaps some others on this list might have found > > objectionable. We have > > had other instances such as this in the past with > > others as well. The > > history of a list such as this grows to accommodate > > all manner of > > eccentricities, and that is a sign of the health and > > robustness of a > > free and open electronic space. It is in the nature > > of an unmoderated > > (that is uncensored) list such as this, that some > > people will use the > > platform to post material that many of us will > > consider reprehensible. > > However, I would suggest that one way to respond to > > such provocation is > > also to not necessarily dignify every such > > provocation with a response. > > > > Abhik Samanta has written in his private capacity to > > Vedavati, and not > > on the list. So his post (no matter how > > objectionable and misogynist its > > content may be, which I think it is, even though I > > can understand his > > outrage at Vedavati's clear act of hate speech) is > > not technically a > > breach of list etiquette. > > > > Vedavati's reply to Abhik which is addressed both to > > Abhik and to the > > list is however a clear case of someone dragging > > what is essentially a > > private exchange between two people on to the public > > space of the list. > > Doing so,without asking for the permission of the > > concerned persons (and > > there is no indication that she has asked Abhik) is > > a clear breach of > > list eitquette. > > > > As a list member, I would advise all other list > > members (including > > Vedavati, and Abhik) to try and refrain from blowing > > this issue out of > > proportion. I personally find the sentiments that > > Vedavati is asking us > > to consider (in the blog whose url she has > > forwarded) pathetic. > > > > I personally think that the real power of > > Hindutva-vadis lies in their > > ability to hog public attention. Just ignore what is > > said by > > Hindutva-vaids , be amused, at best by the sad level > > of the arguments > > and the rhetoric that they put forward, and see how > > powerful your > > unwillingness to pay attention to their agenda can > > be. > > > > I hope this puts an end to what might become an > > otherwise unpleasant > > distraction on this busy list. > > > > regards, > > > > Shuddha > > > > > > > > Vedavati Jogi wrote: > > > this shows your level mr. abhik! > > > > > > when you people curse hindutv forces especially > > rss & family, we should not > > > react > > > but when we talk about muslim terrorism you can't > > tolerate moreover you use > > > such a dirty language ...is it democracy? is it > > secularism?is it liberalism? > > > > > > vedavati > > > > > > > > >>From: "Abhik Samanta" < abhikauliya at googlemail.com> > > >>To: vedavati > > >>Subject: Re: [Reader-list] vedavati thought you > > would like "wrap the body > > >>of muslim terrorist with pig skin" > > >>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:01:43 +0530 > > >> > > >>depraved and poor deprived girl wats the use of > > wasting time thinkin shit > > >>dont u have anyone to fuck > > >> > > >>On 2/25/07, vedavati wrote: > > >> > > >>> > > >>>vedavati wants you to check out "wrap the body of > > muslim terrorist with > > >>>pig skin", the latest post from "Scientific > > Analysis". > > >>> > > >>>Scientific Analysis - Post: > > > >>>http://chritianitybreedspoverty.blogsource.com/post.mhtml? > post_id=132180&hbx_camp=5 > > >>> > > > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>>........................ > > >>> > > > >>>---------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>>-- > > >>>Powered by Blogsource > > >>>http://www.blogsource.com/ > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>Note: The personal information used to send this > > email was not stored and > > >>>will be used for any other purpose. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>_________________________________________ > > >>>reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > > the city. > > >>>Critiques & Collaborations > > >>>To subscribe: send an email to > > reader-list-request at sarai.net with > > >>>subscribe in the subject header. > > >>>To unsubscribe: > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > >>>List archive: > > < https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Crave for a healthier lifestyle? Ask an expert > > > > > > http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default07.htm > > > > > > _________________________________________ > > > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > > the city. > > > Critiques & Collaborations > > > To subscribe: send an email to > > reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the > > subject header. > > > To unsubscribe: > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > > List archive: > > > > > > _________________________________________ > > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and > > the city. > > Critiques & Collaborations > > To subscribe: send an email to > > reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the > > subject header. > > To unsubscribe: > > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > > List archive: > < https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. > Try it now. > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: < https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> From mail at shivamvij.com Tue Feb 27 18:44:00 2007 From: mail at shivamvij.com (Shivam Vij) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:44:00 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] A couple or articles on online misbehaviour and trolling In-Reply-To: <4d145a50702211704u5d14adb9h265d7a1fa9efedbf@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d145a50702211704u5d14adb9h265d7a1fa9efedbf@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9c06aab30702270514r6344b0fev8f629f213b691bdc@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From iram at sarai.net Tue Feb 27 20:23:50 2007 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:23:50 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Cartoons and Icons: Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy - Shuddhabrata Sengupta Message-ID: <45E445FE.1010603@sarai.net> Dear Friends (all members of the Reader List in Delhi), You are cordially invited to an illustrated lecture by Shuddhabrata Sengupta - (see below) - this is an attempt to to mark one year of reflection on the 'Danish Cartoon Controversy' that came to a head across the world around this time last year. The lecture is tomorrow (28th February, at 4:30 p.m.) at Sarai-CSDS Best Iram -------------------------------------------- Cartoons and Icons: Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy A Lecture-Demonstration by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai-CSDS 4:30 P.M., Wednesday, 28 February 2007 Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS Cartoons and Icons : Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy is an exploration of different histories of sanctioned and illicit image making in Islamicate societies, with a view to arriving at a more nuanced understanding of issues pertaining to image making, freedom of expressiona and the xenophobic and discourse around images, in the wake of the publication of the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in European and other newspapers. This presentation, which takes place exactly a year after the 'Danish Cartoon' question became an international crisis seeks to complicate prevalent narratives of blasphemy, heresy and ritualised iconoclasm in Islamicate societies, as well as the ritualised demonization of Muslims in Europe by pointing towards recalcitrant histories that defy the imperative of narrative simplification. [Shuddhabrata Sengupta works at the Media Lab at Sarai-CSDS. He is a media practitioner, artist and writer with the Raqs Media Collective.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Address: Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054 Getting to Sarai/CSDS is really easy. We are located in the Civil Lines area in North Delhi, close to Delhi University. If you take an auto rickshaw or taxi from South Delhi or any other part of the city, the best thing to say is ‘Near Transport Authority, Underhill Road, Civil Lines, I.P. College’; most auto and taxi drivers know the Civil Lines ‘Authority’ well. We are two minutes away from this landmark. The quickest and easiest way to get to Sarai is to take the Delhi Metro, from Connaught Place (Rajiv Chowk) to Civil Lines, or to change at Kashmiri Gate and take the metro to Civil Lines. Get off at Civil Lines cross Shamnath Marg, get on to Underhill Road, walk (10 minutes) or take a cycle rickshaw to the end of Underhill Road, where it meets Rajpur Road. Turn left, you will see Number 29, Rajpur Road soon (on your left). This is CSDS. Walk in, the lecture will take place in the seminar hall of the ground floor of the big white building behind the sunken lawn. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From anivar.aravind at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 19:25:47 2007 From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com (Anivar Aravind) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:25:47 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] 'Widespread support for Kerala Anti ADB campaign' Message-ID: <35f96d470702270555h469831d4q93987877b0536a64@mail.gmail.com> Peoples Forum Against Asian Development Bank (PFAAD) www.asianpeoplesforum.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- MEDIA RELEASE 27 February 2007 Thiruvanathapuram WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR KERALA ANTI ADB CAMPAIGN Kerala's anti-ADB campaign received a shot in the arm as activists from outside the state under the banner of Peoples Forum Against ADB (PFAADB) came out in support at a press conference in Thiruvanathapuram today. Speaking about the disastrous experience with Asian Development Bank (ADB) loans in Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal activists warned that a similar experience was in store for Kerala. The press conference was held at a crucial time. On 22 February 2007 the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) state committee meeting came to the conclusion there was nothing wrong in sanctioning the ADB supported 1422 crore rupee Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP). 2 days later the 'Anti ADB loan campaign committee' filed a legal notice to the Government of Kerala citing several violations in the signing of the loan by Kerala Resident Commissioner Inderjit Singh in New Delhi on 8 December 2006. The Government is yet to respond to the notice. 'Karnataka has the dubious distinction of receiving India's first ADB loan in the urban sector', said Vidya Dinker, Coordinator of the Citizens Forum for Mangalore Development, an alliance of concerned citizens. The ADB funded Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Project (KUIDP) was sanctioned in 1995 and amounted to $ 105 million (472.5 crores). Another loan, the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (KUDCEMP) was sanctioned in 1999 for an amount of $ 175 million (Rupees 787.5 crores). Dinker termed the experience of ADB loans in Karnataka as dismal and a wasteful expenditure of hundreds of crores. ' We were told that the ADB would bring in world-class urban expertise but it fell far short on planning and implementation. Of course the ADB ensured that consultants received world-class fees of several lakh rupees a month, but all we have now are shoddy projects with acute design flaws, she added. ADB project towns are now struggling to repay the loan due to faulty calculations by consultants on raising resources through new taxes and cost recovery in water distribution. In Chattisgarh peoples groups such as Nadi Ghati Morcha are campaigning against the ADB's Chattisgarh Irrigation Development Project. 'This project will benefit agribusiness companies at the cost of peoples livelihood. It will also adversely impact agro diversity in the region and lead to food insecurity, explained Gautam Bandhopadyay, the group's Coordinator. Bandhopadyay also spoke about the dangers inherent in the 900 crore ADB funded Urban Water supply and Environment Improvement Project in Madhya Pradesh. 'Conditionalities dictated by the ADB will gradually lead to privatisation of water distribution in the 6 largest urban centers in the state, he warned. National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers Steering Committee member Mohan Kothekar elaborated on the anti-people conditionalities present in the ADBs Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP). 'An examination of the loan agreement show a slew of conditionalities which include the establishment of a water supply and sewerage utility on corporate principles, gradual phasing out of trash sorters and reorganization of the Municipal Council of Kolkata, clarified Kothekar. T Peter State President of the Kerala Swathantra Matsythozhilali Federation (KSMTF) chaired the discussion. 'It is vital that people's movements across the country come together and jointly strategise on alternatives to institutions such as the ADB, he said. Peter also informed the press that the Anti ADB loan campaign committee would hold a massive statewide convention on 3 March 2007 at Ashir Bhavan in Ernakulam. Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, Justice Krishna Iyer and writer Sara Joseph will address the meeting. Plans are also underway to have a national convention on 'Alternatives to the ADB and World Bank' in Thiruvanathapuram in the last week of April 2007. The PFAADB is a broad and diverse collective of over 100 social movements, struggle groups and civil society groups from across India and Asia, including the National Hawkers Federation, National Fishworkers Forum, Plachimada Solidarity Committee, New Trade Union Initiative, National Alliance of Peoples Movements, Indian Social Action Forum and National Forum of Forest People & Forest Workers. =========================================================================== For more information please contact T Peter at 0471-3012196 or ksmtf at fishworkers.org -------------- next part -------------- ***** NOTE: An attachment named winmail.dat was deleted from this message because it possibly contained a windows executable or other potentially dangerous file type. Contact admin at sarai.net for more information. From ixa10 at psu.edu Tue Feb 27 20:33:03 2007 From: ixa10 at psu.edu (Irina Aristarkhova) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:03:03 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Microsoft lost! Linux wins? Message-ID: There has been moderately active Linux community in Russia, with availability of cheap hardware and good programming skills. However, there has been little government or institutional support, and a lack of understanding of why one would want not to use Windows. But not anymore. Runet and Russian official media have been flooded with discussions and instructions on open source, and what it would take to drop Microsoft 'soft' altogether. All this has been prompted by the recent legal case of 'Microsoft versus Ponosov'. Alexander Ponosov is a school director from a Perm' region (Ural mountains), who does not seem to be an 'advanced' Windows user himself (which in Russia usually means word, exel and powerpoint). However, he was charged with violating Microsoft copyright, and under the current legal provision could be sentenced for 5 years in jail. Plus Micrisoft side demanded 266.593.63 roubles (presumably calculated to equal 10.000 dollars, but the dollar is falling), from a school director whose salary is probably 200-300 dollars per month (at best!). What is it all about? 20 computers in his school computer lab, with illegal copies of Windows, claims Microsoft side, that violates piracy law and its IP. It started as a quiet case, but gradually became a matter of national concern. It became about "American multi-national mammoth corporation" against "a little man" of our own. The fact that Ponosov (whose name, curiously, might be translated both as related to 'nose' as well as 'diarrhea' that is widely referred to in Runet) looked like he had no clue what it is all about, was an 'ordinary' man, making very little money in a remote secondary school, unconnected to IT sector, showed how unwise Microsoft actions were. Until then Russia was demonstratively trying hard to fit Western IP laws. But 5 years in jail for 20 computers in a school lab? First, Russian bloggers started flooding Microsoft with letters that they all use pirated Windows, and that they are ready to go to jail for Ponosov. He had no idea what was on those computers, while they, real programmers and IT geeks, know what they are doing. Take me! Leave a poor school teacher alone! they were typing and e-mailing off. Second, Russian television and press jumped on this out of control, pressing local authorities to think further (at first it seemed as if Microsoft surely had the case, and would win it. Ponosov was visibly worried that he would lose). Microsoft corporation still had no comment, saying it is handled by its office in Moscow. Third, Gorbachev wrote an open letter to Bill Gates, asking him to personally interfere, and stop the case. Putin called the case "dog's rubbish". It was becoming an international scandal for Microsoft. And Bill Gates in his reply to Gorbachev distanced himself and his corporation from this case, arguing that it was started by Russians against Russians, and Microsoft had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Ponosov was becoming more and more visible and vocal, giving interviews to BBC and other major media. About two weeks ago a judge ruled that this case should be dismissed, since the charges (10,000 dollars and 5 years in jail) were unreasonable. Ponosov is unhappy and plans to appeal, he wants to be declared 'innocent'. Microsoft lost a very important case, made more important by its own making. And Russian officials, schools and Runet are busy discussing what it would take NOT to use Windows. They are not sure yet, and they feel it is a difficult task (Office price is about 5 dollars for a pirated copy). But they've started discussing it. For the first time so seriously and openly. Irina Aristarkhova PS. This is a short extract from one of the letters to Moscow Microsoft head Olga Dergunova: "Respected and Dear Olga, My name is Sasha, I live in Mitischi (near Moscow), and I am 30 years old. I have never - you hear me? never - bought any licensed software. And I never will. Let me know if you want my passport number, my address, and go ahead, sue me. I'd be only happy. I have about 15 unlicensed Microsoft products installed on my laptop. All of it - pirated. I am not ashamed, and please do not tell me about programmers who want to eat. ... Sue me, not Ponosov. And sue another one million people like me. It is not about love: that we do not love you personally, or Bill Gates - abstractly. We love everybody. It is you who hate us." (translated from a full letter and a blog at http://forum.msk.ru/material/news/19486.html) From rahul_capri at yahoo.com Wed Feb 28 08:03:36 2007 From: rahul_capri at yahoo.com (Rahul Asthana) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:33:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] How Fake and How Hollow In-Reply-To: <45E3FF4D.7060400@sarai.net> Message-ID: <250399.30797.qm@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> Shuddha, Suggesting to ignore the posting of someone is condescension\intolerance in my book.It may not be to you,and I do realize that making that ad hominem remark displayed my intolerance,so I apologise for that Anyway this is the last I have to say on this account. My more pertinent point was that Islamophobes (I am using this word instead of your Hindutva vadis, because one may not always be the other and vice versa) are not aliens. Some of them may be your family members,close friends,colleagues etc. They just should not be labelled and ignored, but engaged. If Ms Jogi is on this list, it is because she wants to have a dialogue, whatever the tone of that interaction may be. But anyway, to each their own, I guess. Thanks Rahul --- Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote: > Dear Rahul, Vedavati, Abhik (and everyone else on > this list) > > 1. Every list member is free to express their views > on this list. This > list does not have a policy of banning any member, > or censoring content. > This is not going to change. I think that the value > of the freedom of > expression on this list is far greater than the > consequences of having > to deal occasionally with the excesses of some of > our fellow members. If > we ban Vedavati for something that she may have > said, then we will set > an unfortunate precedent by which people may keep > calling for bans on > people they do not agree with, eventually, this will > lead to the death > of debate and dissent on this list. I would not like > things to come to > such a pass. > > 2. I have never suggested that Vedavati be banned, > or that her posts be > censored, neither now, nor on earlier occasions. So, > I do not quite see > how 'fake and hollow...the liberalism and tolerance' > that I 'wear on > (my) sleeve is in the face of handling Vedavati's > posts' actually is. > (as has been suggested by Rahul Asthana). If anyone > else actually sees > how 'fake and hollow' it is, I would be grateful if > they could enlighten > me, so that I can take measures to endow my > liberality and tolerance > with authenticity and depth. I had suggested that > spats of this nature > (as had occurred between Vedavati and Abhik) be > ignored in the larger > interests of the discursive life of this list. To > advise fellow list > members to ignore a provocation is not the same as > asking for the > provocator to be banned. Until and unless it can be > demonstrated that I > have asked for a gag order on Vedavati, it remains > to be demonstrated as > to how fake and hollow my liberality and tolerance > actually are. I am > willing to wait patiently for that to be > demonstrated. > > 3. An aside : I find Sunandan's responses to > 'Vedavatism' very > appropriate, and I think that hindutva apologists > are best disarmed with > a refined sense of the absurd. Sunandan's response > has a sophistication > that I find it possible to learn from. > > 4. I prefer visible to invisible biases. My biases > have never been > invisible. I take special care to render them > visible in everything I > write. I think this makes for transparent and open > debate. > > 5. The responsibility of being a participant in a > free and uncensored > list requires me occasionally to make my stand > clear, in this case, I > have only stated that I disagree with neither the > content of Vedavati's > interventions, nor the tenor of Abhik Samanta's > response to those > interventions. Failing to do so, would make me > complicit in endorsing > one or the other of these stances. I wish to do > neither. > > 6. To fight what I think is secterian hatred with > misogyny seems to me > to betray a poverty of discursive imagination. I > hope that the list can > rise above this, and would welcome (if others so > desire) a serious > debate on issues of religion, nationalism and > identity on the list. It > would be preferable if such a debate could > articulate a complex range of > issues without getting stuck in the rut of the > vocabulary of reciprocal > abuse and name calling, so that we dont have to > waste our time and > limited attention spans in clearing the air in the > wake of particularly > offensive posts. At the risk of repetition, let me > state that I would > personally welcome a serious intervention from > Vedavati, or from any > person sympathetic to her positions, that can be > debated seriously, > without anyone having to deal with the detritus of > personal and ad > hominem attacks. > > 7. To do this, we (including Vedavati, or Abhik, or > anyone else) do not > necessarily have to descend to the level of > references to the > desirability of 'wrapping the bodies of muslim > terrorists pigs' or to > references to a fellow list member's personal life > (or lack of it). > > 8. If anyone chooses to do so, it can only be seen > as evidence of their > propensity for grandstanding, their willingness to > be trapped in a never > ending game of reciprocal abuse, and a profound lack > of seriousnes. > > 9.Finally, I think everyone's point of view, no > matter how objectionable > it may be to anyone else, deserves a fair hearing, > but I also think that > this does mean that a person who sort of keeps > grinding away at > monotonously offensive register riskes having > themselves ignored by > others on the list. Eventually they may well find > themselves isolated. > This list will never ban anyone, but a list that > does not ban is also > very good at ignoring, isolating and cornering > posters who deliberately, > and time and again make offensive postings. I would > suggest that it be > understood that being ignored, isolated, cornered > and exposed is a fate > far worse than being banned, because it does not > come laden with the > promise of the potential glamour of being identified > as someone who is > subject to censorship. Sometimes, to not be censored > for what one says > is far more damaging to the self than to be censored > for what one says. > I hope Vedavati and Abhik both understand this, > because each callous > statement that they (or anyone else) make(s) only > exposes them further > in the eyes of this entire discursive community. > > Enough said, now I would like to get back to work > and get on with my life, > > thank you, and apologies in advance for any offence > caused deliberately, > or inadvertently to anyone on this list by this > post. I mean that seriously. > > regards > > Shuddha > > > > > > > > > > Rahul Asthana wrote: > > Shuddha, > > For whatever its worth, I dont agree to your > divisive > > "us" and "them" labelling and tactics of > promoting > > exclusivity and discouraging dialogue;which is > akin to > > what our politicians want so that they have their > own > > constituenties of voters who vote on non issues > > Precisely for the reason that I dont agree with > > Vedavati, I hope she continues posting here and > time > > permitting I will try and have a dialogue with > her,as > > I have in the past.And your bias is clearly > visible > > when you somehow seem to understand Aviks post. > > I personally dont give a damn who said what to > > whom..(people have abused me in the past) but > perhaps > > some of you who wear your liberalism and tolerance > on > > your sleeve would realise how fake and hollow it > is === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 From yasir.media at gmail.com Wed Feb 28 09:52:04 2007 From: yasir.media at gmail.com (yasir ~) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:22:04 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] How Fake and How Hollow In-Reply-To: <250399.30797.qm@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <45E3FF4D.7060400@sarai.net> <250399.30797.qm@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5af37bb0702272022k3d506faasaee2be0ec402162a@mail.gmail.com> now that we have a mountain out of a molehill, we'll hope some combination of climate change, deforestation and erosion will bring it back to size. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070227/57a95fa8/attachment.html From ravig1 at vsnl.com Wed Feb 28 09:57:05 2007 From: ravig1 at vsnl.com (Ravi Agarwal) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:57:05 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Scale and Dislocations Message-ID: Dear all, Today as I drove past the Chirag Delhi flyover, I saw that the roadside basti of nomads was no more. Nor was their pavement market of metal forged objects or their carts where they lived. Instead there was a familiar sheet barricaded line of HCBC, or High Capacity Bus Service, the new delively vehicle for our city. As I saw from my car at the red light a fight broke out amongst the dwellers, amongst their wares scaterred on the road. Stick were drawn and knives came out as people struggled to break the scuffle. Who knows what tensions must be brewing amongst people with no home anymore. The light changed, without my noticing, till the blaring horns made me drive on, whizz past what I had become used to whizzing past these past months. Earlier for days I had been watching in horror the tee lined avenues being cleaned of decade old trees. Transport corridors have taken over, as the commonwealth games become the defacto justification for all projects. The Conservator of Forests told me that for the metro alone over 35,000 trees had been cut. Another 2500 will go for the High Capacity Bus Service, and and over 20,000 for other road widning projects. Some trees evena hundred years old with girths of over 7 to 10 ft. All axed! As I sit on the Ridge Management Board, for the past three weeks we have had to deal with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) the holy cow of the city and its pride. They want to go through the protected Ridge Forest for 2.5 km , cut several hundred trees, to connect Delhi to neighbouring Gurgaon. Simeltaneouly an 8 lane high way is being proposed joining Delhi to Gurgaon. Going underground will cost 500 crores more they argue. I say to them that that is merely the cost of two plots of land in lutyen;s Delhi, who is to decide what is more important - a 2 billion year old Ridge or an ugly overground metro. The heritage guys had more clout - they pushed it away from Qutub Minar onto the Ridge. Well at least the build heritage has politcal agency. Alongside the old, tree and bird rich Sunder Nursery is slated to be sacrificed to an underground transport corridor. Who is to say what is needed or not. All process is lost and all rationality based on balance is not important it seems. However, the scale of this change leaves me still, unable to move. Which way should I react as an environmentalist. For over a decade I knew. Now I know not. When you are in the midst of a tsunami, what do you do? It is something they did not teach me. How to deal with scale? It is no longer a sum of small things. Small actions do not seem to matter. My human time cannot adapt to the implosion. Has the idea of something become so large now that I as an individual do not matter? Is there any single perputator any more? Or are we just caught in a moment much larger than ourselves? ravi agarwal Toxics Link H-2 Jangpura Extension New Delhi - 110014 ph + 91 11 24328006/ 24320711 fax: + 91 11 24321747 (NOTE :This is not a spam mail as it consists complete sender's details. If you have received this communication by error, please delete the email and destroy all copies of it & in case you wish to unsubscribe our special offerings / promotions kindly send us a email with Subject "UNSUBSCRIBE". excuse us if this was an unwanted mail for you.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070228/494b4931/attachment.html From tasveerghar at gmail.com Wed Feb 28 14:54:05 2007 From: tasveerghar at gmail.com (Tasveer Ghar) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:54:05 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Popular Arts Fellowship: Call for Proposals Message-ID: <484c1050702280124s3f49f518ia1bc2185c06bdf34@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends We are delighted to announce the launch of Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture. Tasveer Ghar is a trans-national virtual "home" for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia's exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art. Tasveer Ghar invites proposals for its first short-term fellowship involving the collection and documentation of popular visual arts with a focus on "Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday", resulting in the digitization of the collected specimens and their virtual exhibition on the website of Tasveer Ghar at the end of the fellowship. This fellowship is ideally meant for individuals or groups who already have an important collection of popular arts that needs to be archived, digitized, or restored, but may not have the resources or know-how to go about doing that. We are also open to proposals that seek to start a new collection or document/photograph something that is available in a public space and needs urgent attention (say, some unique political graffiti on the streets of Kolkata!). Currently we offer this fellowship to individuals or groups based in India only. In exceptional cases, we may consider projects from outside India, but the subject of research/documentation would have to be Indian and the artwork needs to be sent to New Delhi, India. The Tasveer Ghar Fellowship 2007 is a meant for a period of 6 months, starting June 2007. The last date for the submission of proposals is April 30, 2007. For more information on what we mean by popular visual culture, who is eligible to apply to this fellowship, and what one is expected to do during this fellowship, kindly visit our website www.tasveerghar.net, or write to us at tasveerghar at gmail.com We invite you—as friend, colleague, and partner—to join this initiative in whatever capacity that you are comfortable with. Kindly see our detailed Call for Proposals on the website. We also request to kindly forward this message to many more friends and inststitutions that maybe interested in such an initiative. Looking forward to hearing from you all. Christiane Brosius Sumathi Ramaswamy Shuddhabrata Sengupta Yousuf Saeed http://www.tasveerghar.net From shekhar at crit.org.in Wed Feb 28 22:39:06 2007 From: shekhar at crit.org.in (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:09:06 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Zotero for Firefox Message-ID: <1172682546.29946.156.camel@nowhereman> Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use web browser extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It has been developed by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University http://chnm.gmu.edu and is now in use by thousands of historians, anthropologists, journalists, lawyers and other researchers. Zotero is an open source alternative to citation tools like Endnote, and lives inside of your browser, allowing you to automatically capture and manage sources and citations in online catalogues, archives, and other repositories, as well as taking notes, tagging these materials, and exporting bibliographies in various formats. For more information and to download and install Zotero, go to http://www.zotero.org Zotero requires use of Firefox 2.0, the latest version of the popular open source web browser from the Mozilla Corporation. If you don't already use Firefox or haven't yet upgraded to the new version 2.0, go to http://www.getfirefox.com to download it. Once you've installed it or upgraded your earlier version, go to the Zotero site to download and install the extension for Firefox 2.0. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar From jaideepkharub at yahoo.com Wed Feb 28 14:23:04 2007 From: jaideepkharub at yahoo.com (jaideep kharub) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:53:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] IP Law News (1) - Bahrain Message-ID: <58543.21479.qm@web56707.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Dear All, Recently I have joined an international Intellectual Property Law Firm At Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. I would like to give information regarding the existing Intellectual Property System over here. This will be in 4-5 parts in the series, today is 1st one. Today, I am writing about trademarks. TRADE / SERVICE MARKS 1. LEGAL BASIS 2. MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS 3. GENERAL 4. DEFINITION & PROHIBITIVE MARKS 5. FILING 6. EXAMINATION, PROTECTION DURATION 7. CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION 8. INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 1. LEGAL BASIS - Legislative Decree No. 10 of 1991. A new law Trade Mark Law No. 11 of year 2006 (Published in Official Gazette No. 2741 dated May 31, 2006) is enacted but implementing regulations are not issued as yet. 2. MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS - WTO/TRIPS Agreement, since January 1995. - WIPO Convention, since June, 1995. - Paris Convention, since October, 1997. - Madrid Protocol (Registration of Marks), since December, 2005. - NICE Agreement, since December, 2005 - Trademark Law Treaty, acceded on December 18, 2006 (will come into force on March 18, 2007) 3. GENERAL: Bahrain has been a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property since 29 October 1997. However, claiming priority is not possible at the present moment and will not be possible until enforcement of the new law. 4. DEFINITION & PROHIBITIVE MARKS: As per Article 1 of the law, a trademark is any distinctive form of names, words, signatures, characters, numbers, drawings, codes, seals, pictures, inscriptions, or any other sign or group of signs that possesses a distinctive form and indicates that the item or product on which the mark is displayed belongs to the owner of the mark in respect of said owner's production, invention, or trading in the product, or performance of certain services. Article 5 of the law sets out the list of prohibitive marks which are neither considered as trademarks nor registrable in Bahrain . The following are the descriptions which are included in prohibitive list: (1) non distinctive marks; (2) any expression, drawing or sign which is immoral or contrary to public order; (3) public slogans, flags, military emblems, and other insignia belonging to the state, Arab or international organizations or one of their agencies, or to countries that treat Bahrain on a reciprocal basis, or any imitation thereof; (4) signs that are identical to the sign of the Red Cross or Red Crescent, or imitations of the same; (5) marks identical with or similar to symbols of a purely religious nature; (6) geographical names, if their use might cause confusion regarding the source or origin of the goods, products, or services; (7) the name, surname, photograph or logo of a third party, unless he or his heirs consent in advance to the use thereof; (8) details of honorary or academic degrees, unless the applicant for registration proves his legal entitlement thereto; (9) marks that might mislead the public, contain a false indication of source or origin of the products or services, or contain a false, imitated, or forged commercial name; (10) marks owned by natural or corporate persons with whom dealing is banned by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce; and (11) signs identical or similar to a mark previously registered by another for products or services, or signs the registration of which may cause the diminution of value of products or services distinguished by a prior mark. 5. FILING Any person who is the proprietor of a trade or a service mark according to the implication of Article 4 of the Trade Marks Law or any person deriving his right from such registered proprietor by assignment or other mode of transfer, may apply for registration in the territory. The international classification of goods and services (8th edition) for the purpose of the registration of marks is followed. Multi class applications are not permissible, however a series trademark (consists of more than one form) can be filed. The collective mark applications are accepted but registered only with the permission of the Minister of Commerce and Industry. A mark may be limited wholly or partly to one or more specific colors; such limitations are taken into account in considering the distinctive character of a mark. A mark registered without limitations of colour is deemed to be registered for all colours. Filing Requirements: Applications in Bahrain are to be filed with complete documentation and the following documents are required at the time of filing: I. A power of attorney signed by an authorized signatory of the applicant. It is not necessary to have the document notarized or legalized. II. One of the following documents: (a) Certified copy of a corresponding home registration or application; or (b) Certified copy of a corresponding foreign registration or application; or (c) Certificate of incorporation of the applicant company; or (d) Certificate issued by the registrar of companies; or (e) Extract of the entry of the applicant company in the commercial register; or (f) Certificate issued by the Chamber of Commerce. Documents in c, d, e, or f above must indicate the specification of goods and services or the line of the activity of the applicant company and must be legalized up to an a Arab consulate. III. Clear prints of the mark if it is a device mark. IV. Full particulars of the applicant. (Name, Address & Nationality) V. A list of the specification of goods and/or services to be claimed in the application(s). 6. EXAMINATION, PROTECTION DURATION Once a trade/service mark application is filed, the trademark is examined as to its registrability. Trademark applications accepted by the Registrar are published in the Official Gazette. There is a 60-day period open for filing an opposition by any interested party. In the absence of an opposition, a published trademark is registered, and the certificate of registration is issued. It is noteworthy that trademark rights are acquired by registration. However, a trademark application can be opposed successfully upon producing sufficient proof of the prior use of the mark, in Bahrain and elsewhere in the world. Article 18 of the Law provides for the term of protection and renewal. A trademark registration is valid for 10 years as from the date of filing the application. Thereafter, a trademark registration can be renewed during the last year of protection for the period of next 10 years. The Trademark Law provides for a three-month grace period for late renewal of a trademark, after which the registration lapsed due to non-renewal. 7. CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION Use of a trade mark in Bahrain is not compulsory for filing application for registration or for maintaining the trade mark registration in force. But a trade mark is vulnerable to cancellation and can be cancelled by any interested party who can establish that the trade mark was not actually used during the five years immediately preceding the application for cancellation, or that there was no bona fide intention of using the trade mark on the goods in respect of which the it was registered unless the owner of the mark presents a justification for not using it. Further, the commercial registry as well as any interested party may request the court to strike off the trade / service mark on the basis that the mark was unlawfully registered. Also the marks owned by natural or corporate persons with whom dealing is banned according to a resolution issued in this respect by the Minister of Industry & Commerce are to be struck off by the Commercial Registry. According to Article 21 of the Law, re-registration of a cancelled mark in favour of third party is not possible expect after the lapse of 3 years from the date of striking off. 8. INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGS As per Article 31 of the Law, unauthorized use of a trademark registered under the law or an imitation of such trademark applied on goods of the same class, or sale, storing for the purpose of sale, or exhibiting for sale of goods bearing a counterfeit mark, or using a mark duly registered under the law by another person to serve the purpose of unauthorized promotion of goods of the same class, are the offenses penalized under this article. Under Article 33, the owner can also seek precautionary measures with regard to machines & items used or being used in committing the offences stipulated in Article 31 of the Law. If any one of you want yo know more about that, let me know. You are invited for comments. Best Regards Jaideep Kharub IP Officer - AGIP PO Box - 990, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070228/b27fe1e8/attachment.html From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Feb 28 15:27:20 2007 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (cologneOFF) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:57:20 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_call=3A_CologneO?= =?iso-8859-1?q?FF_III_-_art_cartoons_and_animated_narratives?= Message-ID: <20070228105720.96B7DCD9.7647B842@192.168.0.4> Call for entries deadline 1 August 2007 ------------------------------------------- CologneOFF III 3rd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org Festival theme: Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animated narratives After the successful launch of CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival and the organisation of the first two editions in 2006 CologneOFF I - Identityscapes, CologneOFF II - Image vs Music VideoChannel is preparing now edition III of CologneOFF to be launched in October 2007. ---> Toon! Toon! art cartoons and animated narratives VideoChannel invites artists and directors for submitting animated films/videos telling a story in form of a cartoon or other forms of narratives by using the new digital technologies. Rules: • Deadline: 1 August 2007 • The subject can be chosen freely. • The films/videos may originate from the years 2002-2007. • The duration max. 10 minutes, exceptions possible. • Max 3 films/videos can be submitted. • Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles. • The preview copy should be made available online for review and/or download as Quicktime . mov, Windows Media .wmv, Flash video .swf or.flv or Real Media .rm minimum size 320×240 • After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality. All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=23 ------------------------------------------- CologneOFF Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is a new type of film festival which is organised simultaneously online and offline via worldwide collaborations organised by VideoChannel video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org ------------------------------------------- This call is released by netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net . info (at) nmartproject.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements