From arshad.mcrc at gmail.com Mon Oct 2 08:21:03 2006 From: arshad.mcrc at gmail.com (arshad amanullah) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:21:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] THE ISSUE OF HAJ SUBSIDY Message-ID: <2076f31d0610011951x7eb86e92m412d479995fe07e2@mail.gmail.com> THE ISSUE OF HAJ SUBSIDY By: Arshad Amanullah. For a week or so, the issue of Haj subsidy is in news. The Supreme Court had stayed the Allahabad High Court order restraining the Centre from granting financial subsidy to Haj pilgrims every year and cleared the subsidy for 2006. However, it asked the latter to dispose of the main petition on the validity of the subsidy as expeditiously as possible, but before Haj 2007. This judicial intervention into an issue which is directly linked to the religious sentiments of the Muslim community raises several questions regarding the difference in the understanding of the idea of secularism enshrined in the Constitution and the role of the political and religious elite of the community and the country at large. Initiated as a financial support for those who used to go on the Haj pilgrimage by ships, Haj subsidy continued even after 1995 when it was prohibited to travel in ships. In the same year, Hari Shankar Jain on behalf of BN Shukla, a VHP activist, challenged the legitimacy of the subsidy in a writ filed in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court. It is, during one of the hearings on this petition, the Court had given its latest verdict. The judiciary is of the view that Haj subsidy violates "the secular character of our Constitution" according to which there shall be no discrimination on the basis of religion while no communities other than Muslims receive such a subsidy for their pilgrimage. It has spurred a debate among the Muslim society whether it's Islamic to accept a grant from the Government to perform Haj, a religious ritual. Those who are for the subsidy, argue that it is not alms on the part of the government to the Muslims as the subsidy is paid from the exchequer of the country to which the Muslims tax-payers also contribute. It is true that the Government has been providing facilities for the Kailash Manasarovar yatra and incurring an expense of Rs. 3,200 on each pilgrim. But, the tax-payers money here is used as provision of facilities, not as subsidy. Those Muslims who oppose the subsidy aver how Islamic it is to perform Haj with subsidies generated from taxes, mostly paid by non-Muslims. Even Muslim nations do not offer subsidy for Haj to their poorest citizens. In 1997, Justice Tanvir Ahmed of the Lahore High Court had ruled that any expenditure defrayed by the government in subsidizing the Haj pilgrims was contrary to the Shariat. Religiously speaking, only those Muslims are required to perform Haj who can bear the expense out of their own legitimate income. Thus, the fear expressed by Solicitor General G E Vahanvati in the Supreme Court that most of 1,47,000 pilgrims for Haj 2006-II would not undertake Haj if there was non subsidy, does not stand to the test of Shariat. An analysis of the financial aspects of Haj subsidy exposes its absurdity. It's the government which benefits more from the subsidy than the intending pilgrim do. They are compelled to travel by Air India and this is to, as some politicians allege, make up of the huge losses incurred by the same. An intending pilgrim has to pay Rs.36000 for his ticket from Delhi to Jeddah while an average traveler has to pay only Rs.22,000 for the same as Air India effects considerable increments in its fare for the same destination for Haj pilgrims. If one avails the services of other airways, one needs to pay much less amount than he pays to Air India. It should also be borne in the mind that only those pilgrims can avail the facility of the subsidy who travel through the Central Haj Committee. Before lapse of even two months, it starts preparations for the next Haj. In this connection, many delegates visit Saudi Arabia for several times to make arrangements for the stay of the pilgrims. In the process, they make money as they are bribed to make compromise on the healthy and comfortable stay of the pilgrims. It is very prominent in the process of building selection. Generally, eleven pilgrims are accommodated in the space allocated for only ten of them and, thus, the expenses of one pilgrim are saved. Likewise, while fixing the rate for the exchange of currencies, a huge margin is observed, resulting in large amount of profits. The Sangh Parivar is lambasting the UPA government for its minority appeasement policy on the issue of Haj subsidy. However, the fact that even the BJP, despite its being so keen on the abolition of the subsidy, refused to do away with it in the six years of the NDA rule at the Centre, speaks volumes about how beneficial the subsidy is in practice for the intending pilgrims. This serves as a yardstick to measure the opportunism of the UPA leadership to keep its Muslim vote-bank consolidate at the cost of the electorate. In a nutshell, the package of Haj subsidy is in no way beneficial for the Muslim community. Clamor for its restoration on the part of the political and the religious leadership of the community belies their demonstrated commitments for the betterment of the community. arshad amanullah 35,masihgarh, jamia nagar new delhi-25. From sunil at mahiti.org Sun Oct 1 23:55:50 2006 From: sunil at mahiti.org (Sunil Abraham) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:55:50 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Request for Peer Review - FOSS: Open Content Message-ID: <1159727151.5107.166.camel@localhost.localdomain> Dear Friends, Greetings from the IOSN! The International Open Source Network (IOSN) is an initiative of APDIP and supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada. IOSN is a Centre of Excellence for Free/ Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Content and Open Standards in the Asia-Pacific region. It is a network with a small secretariat based at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok and three centres of excellence – IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries), and IOSN South Asia, based in Manila, Suva and Chennai respectively. We are currently seeking public feedback on an IOSN primer titled FOSS: Open Content by Lawrence Liang. Lawrence Liang is a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture, the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. He is the author of two books, “Guide to Open Content Licenses” and “The Public is watching: Sex, Laws and Videotapes” and numerous articles on copyright, informal information economies and the commons. Contents Include: Contexualising Open Content, The Myths of Copyright, Expansion of Copyright Over The Years, How Copyright impedes Creativity and Access to Knowledge, Emergence of the Open Content Paradigm, Licenses and the Control of Copyright, The Public Domain, Open/ Collaborative Production and its Advantages, Characteristics of Open Content Licenses, Survey of Open Content Projects, Policy Implications and Limitations of Open Content. You can download the files in OpenOffice.org, MS Office and PDF format from here:- http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.doc http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.odt http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.pdf We would be very grateful if you could send your feedback on Lawrence's primer by 14th of October 2006. Thanking you in advance. Sunil == People who have provided peer review in the past include: Dr. M Sasikumar Dr. Nah Soo Hoe Onno W. Purbo Colin Charles Phet Sayo Richard Stallman Wooi Tong Tan Atsushi Yamanaka Raul Zambrano Helena Loh Gaurab Raj Upadhaya Anousak Souphavanh Arun M Dr. Sarmad Hussain Javier Sola Guntupalli Karunakar Pramod Raghavendra Will Smith Bjorn Stabell Jethro Cramp Karl O. Pinc Serge Marelli Vorasone Dengkayaphichith Vincent Berment Alberto Escudero-Pascual Eric S. Raymond Aniruddha Shankar Mahesh T. Pai Kenneth Wong Philippe Langlois Dinesh Nair Devdas Bhagat Raj Mathur Satyakam Goswami Vimal Joseph Simos Xenitellis Seow Hiong Goh Michael Mudd Peter Chong From mail at shivamvij.com Mon Oct 2 19:07:51 2006 From: mail at shivamvij.com (Shivam Vij) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:07:51 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Merit at AIIMS: Doctor dies of dengue, Delhi on the verge of a dengue epidemic Message-ID: <9c06aab30610020637m2368eea4kac7369cc87518162@mail.gmail.com> [Given below is the press release of the Progressive Medicos and Scientists Association.] Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum Press release Dated: 2.10.06 AIIMS administration that has earned a reputation for itself to rake up and foster divide on sectarian questions has once again proved its ineptness in doing what it is supposed to do best i.e. provide quality medical care to the patients, that too at a time when the Government is considering declaring Delhi being in the grip of Dengu epidemic. Only that in the latest instance the victim of negligence has been none other than a brilliant student of AIIMS it self. A senior faculty member of the Department of Medicine at AIIMS has himself told the tale of utter negligence that cost Kalmalla Raj Kiran his life. It may first be known that at a time when there is an explosion of sorts in cases of Dengu at AIIMS itself, most of the senior medical staff of AIIMS casualty has been deputed to organizing the Indo-U.S Summit on Emergency Medicine that is going on at AIIMS. The emergency services have been virtually left to junior doctors who are not oriented to deal with the outbreak of Dengu. Apart from this AIIMS has a surplus of 60 faculty that have been appointed for the 'Trauma Centre' of AIIMS that has not started functioning till date. Even this faculty that is posted in the casualty was not present. Raj Kiran was first brought to the casualty on the 27th of September with complaints of fever and coffee colored vomiting, which is a sign of bleeding in the stomach or food pipe (the esophagus). He was attended to by a junior doctor who failed to take notice of the symptoms which should have immediately aroused suspicion of Dengu. However Dengu was ruled out by the junior resident doctor as the platelet count (cells in the blood that prevent excess bleeding) was 1.3 lacks. The next time Raj Kiran was rushed to the casualty by his friends when he was found collapsed in the toilet of the hostel. However the same story got repeated as earlier. Even though he was brought to the casualty earlier in the day on 28th, no Consultant was approached to examine him. The platelet count had dropped drastically to 60,000 by this time. Finally when the doctor wrote that he be admitted immediately, no bed was available for the student. Later in the evening Raj Kiran had an attack of seizure as noticed by the another medical student who had been attending to Raj Kiran. On being told about it the attending doctor in the casualty, dismissed it merely as shivering due to high fever. Even though the patient was very drowsy and had altered sensorium, no CT was done. He was rushed to the medical ICU in ward C-2 at 2.00am on 29th, where again the senior resident doctor on duty was not present. The junior post-graduate students who attended to Raj Kiran tried their best to salvage the situation. A CT scan was performed only at 5.00 am in the morning and when it was finally learnt at 6.30 am that Raj Kiran had had a massive bleeding in the brain, that the concerned Consultant on call was informed of the condition for the first time. Even though the consultant immediately arranged for the patient to be taken up for surgery in the Neurosurgery department, but the patient had virtually been lost. In the meantime at least a dozen friends of Raj Kiran were running from pillar to post to donate blood for him when they learnt that there was not a single unit of 'Fresh Frozen Plasma' available for transfusion. To their utter shock when they finally managed to contact the doctor incharge of the blood bank they were told that the kit meant for separating platelets from blood (SDP kit) was not available with the blood bank of the 'Premier Medical Institute' of the country. If this is the efficiency with which a student of AIIMS was done to death due to a series of negligence in the treatment, one can only well imagine the plight of common faceless patients in whose stories never get to see the light of the day. PMSF feels that there is an Institutional breakdown at AIIMS as shown by the shoddy handling in the case of Raj Kiran. The death of this student is a reflection of the state of affairs at AIIMS and the capabilities of the administration. PMSF also demands that a through going enquiry be conducted by an outside agency in this whole issue, that responsibilities be fixed and proper action be taken in the matter against the authorities. * sd – (Dr Vikas Bajpai) Spokesperson, PMSF From abhayraj.naik at hotmail.com Mon Oct 2 19:31:35 2006 From: abhayraj.naik at hotmail.com (Abhayraj Naik) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:31:35 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Quirk litmag submission call for sept-dec 2006 Message-ID: the 8th issue (may-august 2006) of quirk has recently released with limited print copies floating around bangalore, delhi, mumbai, chandigarh and a few other cities. most of the writing is also available online on quirk's (still-under-construction) website http://www.quirk.in find below, the submission call for the september-december 2006 issue. please do circulate in interested channels. abhay. " WRITING FOR QUIRK: THE SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER EDITION We really appreciate new writers/artists contributing to Quirk through pieces exploring the theme or otherwise. We encourage contributions of all kinds � articles, poetry, stories, prose, visual art, crosswords, quizzes, trivia�the list goes on � with absolutely no restrictions on content, style or form. So go ahead, let the creative juices flow and swirl around freely � and surprise us, or stick to traditional literary styles � you meet our quirky quality standards, we�re good to publish! The theme for the September-December edition of Quirk is �Taste Abandon�. The flexible deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2006. And no, your submissions do not have to relate to the theme. Just to give you a pointer as to how diverse the material that we�ve published in the past has been � from sports literature to children�s literature to sci-fiction to horror to humour � we traverse the whole terrain. And if you�re specially burning with the desire to let out and let the world know what exactly you think of them � albeit from the point of the pen � here�s your chance. Because we encourage criticism. Of. Books, movies, music, pubs, restaurants, sportspeople, politics and university bureaucracy � in fact, anything under the sun that may be possibly subject to review. E-mail your submissions to quirk at nls.ac.in. For postal submissions, send your contributions to: (pleases mark the envelope with �Attn: Ms. Ganeev�) The Quirk Editorial Collective, National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore � 560072, India. Flexible deadline: November 20, 2006 CONTRIBUTE. CRITICIZE. ABUSE. PRAISE. Send in your contributions http://www.quirk.in " _________________________________________________________________ One and only Ash. Find out all about her. Only on MSN Search http://server1.msn.co.in/profile/aishwarya.asp From mail at caei.com.ar Mon Oct 2 21:47:10 2006 From: mail at caei.com.ar (Argentine Center of International Studies) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:17:10 -0300 Subject: [Reader-list] International Organisations Area of the CAEI invites... Message-ID: <412-220061012161710498@oemcomputer> Dear Colleagues, The International Organisations Area of the CAEI (Argentine Center of International Studies) is proud to announce the beginning of its research program. The CAEI is a research-oriented website that analyses international politics from a pluralist point of view. Within the CAEI, the International Organization Area aims to serve as an open forum for debate on most of the critical issues on International Relations regarding International Organizations. We welcome the participation of both scholars and students. If you are interested in taking part of our activities or publish in our website, please submit your working paper or contact us to the following e-mail address: organismos at caei.com.ar. Our URL direction is http://www.caei.com.ar/en/iorg.htm Best regards, Lic. Mariana Foglia Lic. Mauro Vega Lic. Carla Majdalani From nuaiman at gmail.com Tue Oct 3 14:27:34 2006 From: nuaiman at gmail.com (Nuaiman ,) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:27:34 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Re; Note from Bangalore Message-ID: <9c57aafc0610030157n258c00a4k6c08c1cd6128f1dc@mail.gmail.com> I was reading the article Zainab has written about Bangalore, particularly about Thilagnagar, where I live for two months during my summer vacation and was narrowly escaped from a communal clash between Tamilians, who are rehabilitated in that area and Muslims, who have been living there for generations. Most of the Tamilians in that area are lower class Dalits, converted into Christianity. The tension was broken up because three Muslim girls ran away with Tamilians and speculation started to spread saying that those three girls were raped and was forcefully converted into Christianity. The rehabilitation program was initiated a s part of govt's policy to "manage the city" and "beautification of the city" and ironically became the agency of communal tensions later. Still the people in the area are divided on communal as well as regional lines. That is Kannada Muslims and Tamil Dalit Christians. Nuaiman Hyderabad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20061003/495ed22b/attachment.html From sadan at sarai.net Tue Oct 3 19:40:06 2006 From: sadan at sarai.net (Sadan) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:40:06 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Sarai, CSDS Student Stipendship Workshop: 6-7 Oct, 2006 Message-ID: <45226F3E.5080605@sarai.net> Dear All, Please find below the programme schedule for the third and final workshop of Sarai,CSDS Student Stipendship programme for research on the city. A brief note about research scholars associated with this programme, their topic of research as well as abstracts are also given below. You all are invited in the workshop. Wishes, sadan. Sarai-CSDS Student Stipendship for Research on the City, 2005-2006 Student Stipendship Programme at Sarai Sarai is committed towards building a network of young researchers, with an interest in the urban condition. The Student Stipendship Programme is a crucial intervention in this regard. Students are provided financial support and academic resources to carry out research, present their work and interact with the wider academic community. Covering a wide frame of geo-cultural regions from Thiruvananthapuram to Varanasi and Pune to Darbhanga and Kolkata, these stipendiaries focus on a broad range of disciplines including literature, history, gender studies, urban planning and communication studies. In the course of nine months of stipendship, researchers were invited to participate in three workshops to discuss their ideas and problems and engage with scholars of urban studies. This is third and final workshop intended for researchers to present their research addressing a wide variety of themes. This year's subjects include engagements with dynamics of new urbanism in Pune, historical trajectories of matrimonial classifieds, Popular music and issues of regional and gendered identities urban memories and question of representations, narratives and desires, geographies of capital and labour in Trivandrum, historical construction of goondas in context of Great Calcutta Killings of 1946 and many worlds of beauty and the beauty industry. Sarai, CSDS Student Stipendship For Research on City Life 2006 Third Workshop 6-7 October 2006 Sarai,CSDS Seminar Room Day One October 6, 2006. 10.00-10.15 Opening Remarks: Awadhendra Sharan 10.15-12.00 Development, Planning and Emerging Urbanism Chair: Sugata Nandi Ateya: Development/Displacement: Understanding the Tools of Urbanisation Discussant: Ramya Swayamprakash Apurva:The Cultural Economy of New Urbanism: Pune’s Magarpatta City, A Case Study. Surbhi Tiwari Mythri Prasad: Geographies of Capital and Labour in Trivandrum City, Kerala. Sutapa Majumdar Open Discussion 12.00- 1.15 Performative Traditions Chair: Sukanya Sen Amruta sadanand More :Development of Marathi Experimental Theatre in Pune in the Post-‘90s Discussant: Girija Duggal Shirish Khare: Little Bele Troupe aur Chhau Nritya Parampara (Little Bele Troupe and the Chhau Dance Tradition), Discussant: Rajeev Ranjan Giri Open Discussion 1.15-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.15 Popular Music and Issues of Identity Chair: Ateya Khorakiwala Deepak Kumar: Popular Music and the Configuration of Jat Identity in Haryana Discussant: Pawas Bisht Swati Das:Exploring the Impact of Audio-Video Recording of Women's Songs in Bihar, Discussant: Mythri Open Discussion 3.15-3.30 Tea Break 3.30-5.15 Institutions, Narratives and Images of/from Small Towns Chair: Apurva Pawas Bisht and Sukanya Sen:Situating Small-Town Desire: Space and Memory in Bunty aur Babli Discussant: Deepak Kumar Manoj Kumar Jha: Vikshipton par Padti Nigahon ki Dastan, (A Story of Gazing Madness and Mad People) Discussant: Surbhi Tiwari Rajeev Ranjan Giri: Pushtakalaya aur Shahar ke Baudhik Vikas ka Antarsambandh (Library and the Intellectual Life of a City) Discussant: Swati Das Open Discussion 5.15-5.45 Feedback 01: Prasad Shetty and Prabhu Mohapatra. Day II 7 October 2006 10.00-11.15 Going Beyond: Beauty and Urban Spaces Chair: Surbhi Tiwari Sutapa Majumdar: Beyond the Beauty Myth: Exploring Invention, Invisible Labour and Consumption in Beauty Services Discussant: Ateya Amit Ranjan: Memories and Narratives of Delhi Discussant: Sukanya Sen Open Discussion 11.15-11.30 Tea Break 11.30-1.15 Historical Trajectories of Representations Chair: Pawas Bisht Sugata Nandi : A Criminal Riot: The Calcutta Riot of August 1946 and the Goondas, Discussant: Sadan Jha Girija and Sudeep Duggal: Deconstructing Holy Matrimony: The Politics of the Matrimonial Classified in Delhi’s Leading Newspapers, Discussant: Ateya Khorakiwala Open Discussion 1.15-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.15 Kolkata: Domains of Legality and literature Chair: Sutapa Majumdar Surbhi Tiwari: The Corrupt Son of the Erupting City: Kolkata in Law and Lovely Matters like Relationship, Discussant: Vaibhav Parel Jhelum Biswas: Calcutta in Modern Indian English Literature, Discussant: Sugata Nandi Open Discussion 3.15-3.30 Tea Break 3.30—5.15 Communities, Localities and Work Culture Chair: Deepak Kumar Rajesh Narayan Dwivedi:Varanasi ke Bunakaron ki Samkalin Chunautiyan: Ek Sarvekshana (Contemporary Challenges of the Weavers of Varanai: A Survey) Discussant: Amruta Ramya Swayamprakash:Textile Dreams, Discussant: Apurva Vaibhav Parel: Brahmin Gali, Ehthnography of a Bylane Discussant: Amit Ranjan Open Discussion 5.15-5.45 Feedback 02: Ranjini Mazumdar and Debjani Sengupta. 5.15-- 6.00 Feedback 03: Researchers Remarks Moderated by Sugata Nandi and Sutapa Majumdar. 6.00-7.00 Feedback 04 : Remarks by Senior Research Scholars Moderated by Ravi Sundaram Participants: Ranjini Mazumdar, Debjani Sengupta, Prabhu Mohapatra, Awadhendra Sharan. Selected Proposals: 1. Amit Ranjan Sharma, Memories and Narratives of Delhi, M.Phil. English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. amit_ranjan10 at rediffmail.com An experiment in creative writing, the project intends to rediscover old language and the old city through the stories of families that have stayed in Delhi. These are juxtaposed with contemporary memoirs/accounts, such as those focusing on the 1984 riots. The project will use a collage format to enhance creative expression. 2. Amruta Sadanand More, Development of Marathi Experimental Theatre in Pune in the Post-‘90s, MA Communication Studies, University of Pune, Pune. more.amruta at rediffmail.com This project studies the transformations in content, themes, forms, sensibilities and language of Marathi experimental theatre in Pune. It examines the changing social structure and cultural presence/influence of this group on communities in Pune during a particular historical moment. 3. Apurva, The Cultural Economy of New Urbanism: Pune’s Magarpatta City, A Case Study, M.Phil. Sociology, University of Pune, Pune. apurvakr at yahoo.com This project focuses on the dynamics of new urbanism in Pune, examining the new cultural economy that is (re)organising and creating new forms of spatial segragation in the era of global capitalism. The project assesses the relationship between the production of space, class, culture and consumption through observing a gated community (Magarpatta) in Pune. 4. Ateya Khorakiwala, Development/Displacement: Understanding the Tools of Urbanisation, B.Arch. KRVIA, Mumbai. ateya.k at gmail.com This project studies the demolition drives that have been equated with a form of 'urban cleansing' in Mumbai, and attempts to correlate these with plans to develop and upgrade the metropolis. It examines how communities have been displaced by the development plan, raising the question of whether the drive towards urbanisation is also simultaneously a drive towards the depoliticisation of the city. 5. Deepa Palaniappan, Invisible in New Delhi: Spatial Narratives of the Disabled in City 'Public' Spaces, M.Phil. Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. deepa.palaniappan at gmail.com This project attempts to document various imaginaries and signifiers that constitute city space for disabled populations, by studying the mobility patterns of their daily life in New Delhi. The study asks whether the disabled are able to participate in/contribute to the normative public terrain that culturally defines a city. 6. Deepak Kumar, Popular Music and the Configuration of Jat Identity in Haryana, M.Phil. History, Delhi University, Delhi. hie_Deepak at yahoo.com. This project studies the emergence of the cassette industry in Haryana, and the forces by which oral tradition has been tapped in a manner that not only legitimises this tradition, but also enables the forging of a Jat identity. The research explores networks of reception and dissemination, linkages with film music, and with other regional cassette industries. 7. Girija Duggal and Sudeep Duggal, Deconstructing Holy Matrimony: The Politics of the Matrimonial Classified in Delhi’s Leading Newspapers, MA English, Delhi University, Delhi; B.Tech (Computers), IILM, UP Technical University, Noida. girijaduggal at gmail.com, duggalsudeep at gmail.com This project studies the content of matrimonial classifieds in the city’s leading newspapers, and maps their dominant trends. It compares these findings with the patterns of previous decades; it also attempts to analyse related changes, if any, to socio-cultural, political, economic and technological factors. This documentation of a media space will analyse changing value systems, particularly in the urban middle classes. 8. Jhelum Biswas, Calcutta in Modern Indian English Literature, M.Phil. English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. jhelumb at rediffmail.com The project focuses on the concept of the urban novel, exploring what has fascinated generations of writers about the city of Calcutta, a complex space that is viewed as semi-decadent, and well as on the verge of resurrection. The researcher will draw upon contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Indrajit Hazra, Raj Kamal Jha and others whose work features Calcutta as the prominent fulcrum of the narrative. 9. Manoj Kumar Jha, Vikshipton par Padti Nigahon ki Dastan, (A Story of Gazing Madness and Mad People) MA Political Science, Annamalai University, Darbhanga. jhamanoj01 at rediffmail.com This project explores urban responses to madness in the small town of Darbhanga in Bihar. It focuses on issues such as linkages and tensions between the ‘mad’ people of today and the ‘mad’ saints of the past; it also examines the presence of madness in social memory and the changing nature of social responses to madness The study will incorporate oral culture, folk and literary sources that relate to the theme. 10. Mythri Prasad, Geographies of Capital and Labour in Trivandrum City, Kerala, M.Phil. Applied Economics, CDS, Thiruvananthapuram. mythriprasad at rediffmail.com Focusing on road construction sites in the city of Trivandrum, this project analyses the political economy of urban infrastructure in the context of a regime of privatisation. It explores the patterns and trajectories of the relocations of ethnic communities of Bengal and Jharkhand in these new spaces of global capital. Methodology includes archival research as well as in-depth field interviews. 11. Pawas Bisht and Sukanya Sen, Situating Small-Town Desire: Space and Memory in Bunty aur Babli, MA Mass Communication, AJKMCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi. pawasbisht at rediffmail.com, sensukanya at gmail.com Through a semiotic and an ideological analysis of the Hindi blockbuster Bunty aur Babli (2005), the study aims to track the process and the politics of the transference of urban space and collective memory onto the cinematic text. It is also a reception study, exploring the relationship between the audience and the cinematic city as a site of the collective memory. 12. Rajeev Ranjan Giri, Pushtakalaya aur Shahar ke Baudhik Vikas ka Antarsambandh (Library and the Intellectual Life of a City), Ph.D, CIL/SLL &CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. rajeevgirijnu at rediffmail.com This project attempts to understand the changing dynamics of a particular space and its relationship with its urban location. Focusing on a library with a long history, the Sharda Sadan Pushtakalaya in the small town of Lalgunj (Bihar), the research documents the varying trends of readership as well as the history of this library. 13. Rajesh Narayan Dwivedi, Varanasi ke Bunakaron ki Samkalin Chunautiyan: Ek Sarvekshana (Contemporary Challenges of the Weavers of Varanai: A Survey), Ph.D Hindi, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. narayan_vats at yahoo.co.in This project documents the challenges and different livelihood strategies of the weavers of specific Varanasi localities. The study attempts to understand how the weaver community has devised ways to negotiate economic pressures such as globalisation, within which identity, work culture and craft traditions have been transformed. A wide range of representational registers, e.g., literary texts, documentary films, government records and newspaper reports, will also be documented and analysed. 14. Ramya Swayamprakash, Textile Dreams, MA Political Science, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. ramya.swayamprakash at gmail.com. This project takes the shape of a 'walk' through different periods of the textile mills of Mumbai. An attempt at oral history, the study explores migrants’ perspectives on the city during the past two decades. It also examines the viability of ‘ghost trades’ and the relevance of trade unionism in Mumbai. 15. Shirish Khare, Little Bele Troupe aur Chhau Nritya Parampara (Little Bele Troupe and the Chhau Dance Tradition), MA Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. shirish_khare at rediffmail.com This project documents 25 years of activity of the Little Bele theatre troupe of Indore and Bhopal. This group has developed a unique style by incorporating Chhau dance movements/rhythms into its repertoire. The research will document visual materials and texts, newspaper reports, folders and brochures, as well as record interviews with people associated with the group. 16. Sugata Nandi, A Criminal Riot: The Calcutta Riot of August 1946 and the Goondas, Ph.D History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. meetnandi at hotmail.com This project analyses the mechanisms used to produce the discourses through which the Calcutta riot of August 1946 has been represented as a carnival of crime actualised by goondas, urban criminals of the city. The research draws on government reports, media accounts and personal memoirs. It explores how the concept of criminality was constituted in the context of the ‘Great Calcutta Killing’, and then employed in a contest over claims to the correct and definitive account of the riot. 17. Surbhi Tiwari, The Corrupt Son of the Erupting City: Kolkata in Law and Lovely Matters like Relationship, MA Political Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata. surbhi1010 at yahoo.co.in This project explores how Kolkata becomes a site of reference for law, through a close reading of a legal case – a child-parent dispute initiated over the neglect of parents by their offspring. The research reflects on the manner in which the city itself is articulated in legal rhetoric, and also explores questions of agency and legitimacy. 18. Sutapa Majumdar, Beyond the Beauty Myth: Exploring Invention, Invisible Labour and Consumption in Beauty Services, M.Phil. Sociology, University of Pune, Pune. sutapa_majumdar at yahoo.com This project studies the various worlds of beauty and the beauty industry in the city of Pune. With an emphasis on different levels of hierarchy and gradation that exist within this service industry, the research attempts to understand 'beauty' as a process of consumption in daily life, focusing on the services offered, labour structure, notions of space and hygiene, and their interface with processes relating to the medicalisation of beauty. 19. Swati Das, Exploring the Impact of Audio-Video Recording of Women's Songs in Bihar, M.Phil. Sociology, University of Pune, Pune. sweeti_das at yahoo.com This project examines the interface of oral traditions and the cassette industry in Bihar. The research documents the commercial videotaping of social events involving music, such as marriages. Analytical parameters focus on the reformulation of both the context and performance of folk songs, including songs that celebrate female sexuality. The research also scrutinises how cassettes are replacing the living voices of women performers, and enabling the erasure of the images of folk artists. 20. Vaibhav Parel, Brahmin Gali, Ehthnography of a Bylane, MA English, Delhi University, Delhi. viparel at yahoo.co.uk This project is an ethnographic study of a Delhi bylane called Brahmin Gali. It attempts to highlight the intersecting strategies of intense brahmanical ritualism/spirituality, aggressive materialism, a rigid caste hierarchy and patriarchal structures within this space, and their relationship with the larger urban context. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From zainab at xtdnet.nl Wed Oct 4 23:30:57 2006 From: zainab at xtdnet.nl (zainab at xtdnet.nl) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:00:57 +0400 (RET) Subject: [Reader-list] Notes from Bangalore - contd Message-ID: <19639.202.56.231.116.1159984857.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> I "These days when I travel by auto rickshaws, I notice the addresses of the auto drivers (auto drivers in Bangalore have to put up their driving license and address details on the auto). I wonder where these addresses are in Bangalore. I start chatting up with some of the auto drivers to find out where exactly their residential addresses are. I now realize that this city tries to hide its slums. Most of the areas which are shown as addresses of these auto drivers are actually slums which we cannot see. It is different in Bombay where you do not have the space to hide the slums." II I think of individual identity and group identity these days. I have realized that identity is not an end in itself. I am not sure if I can extend this statement to all, but I do believe that identity is a means to an end for a lot of groups. There is something material about identity which allows the individual and which allows groups to be able to mobilize their claims and rights by alluding to their identities. What then is this identity? What kind of a self and a subject are we with and without our identities? Zainab Bawa Bombay www.xanga.com/CityBytes http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html From quraishy at sarai.net Thu Oct 5 10:10:50 2006 From: quraishy at sarai.net (Moslem Ali Quraishy) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:40:50 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] DD-1 to telecast Anand Patwardhan Message-ID: <2efe79247dd2a064bafa32afce6d1c83@sarai.net> Finally ! DD-1 to telecast Anand Patwardhan's "Father, Son and Holy War" on this Sunday, October 8th at 10 a.m. (All India \ telecast) At 10 am on Sunday morning, October 8, 2006 an 11 year old battle will \ finally come to an end. Anand Patwardhan's 1995 documentary "Father, Son and \ Holy War" on the connection between communal violence and the male psyche had \ won two National and several international awards. But when he submitted it \ for telecast, Doordarshan rejected it. Patwardhan took the matter to the Bombay \ High Court and in 2001 the court ordered DD to telecast the film but DD \ chose to appeal the matter in the Supreme Court. The SC asked DD to review the \ film. DD's own preview panel approved the telecast but Prasar Bharati, then \ dominated by BJP appointees, stepped in and rejected the film. Patwardhan moved \ the High Court again and won a fresh order to telecast in 2004. Prasar Bharati \ once again went to the Supreme Court in appeal. Finally on 25 August 2006 \ Justice Lakshmanan and Justice Panta of the Supreme Court upheld the High \ Court order to telecast the film without cuts within 8 weeks of the judgement. Noting that several times in the past DD had rejected Patwardhan's \ documentaries until the judiciary forced them to be telecast, the Honourable \ Justices went so far as to pass strictures against DD and Prasar Bharati \ reprimanding the broadcaster for finding "flimsy excuses" time and again not \ to telecast Patwardhan's films. When asked what DD found so hard to swallow in his films, Patwardhan said: "When a government and its bureaucrats become averse to the slightest sign of \ criticism, it signals a lack of self-confidence. America today is passing \ through a similar phase and resorting to outright censorship to cover up its \ war crimes in Iraq. In India the BJP openly stifled the secular voice while \ the Congress merely gave it lip service. Luckily for people like me the Indian \ Constitution has proven to be much more robust. It is this that gives us some \ hope for the preservation of our secular democracy." Patwardhan thanked his lawyers P.A.Sebastian, Prashant Bhushan and Nitya \ Ramakrishnan for consistently taking up the cause of civil liberties and human \ rights and expressed the hope that Prasar Bharati would no longer force people \ like him to go to court. "Father, Son and Holy War" is a two hour documentary that was shot from the \ mid 80's to the mid 90's and covers a wide spectrum of events, from the Sati \ in Deorala in 1987 to the Bombay riots and subsequent bomb blasts in \ 1992-1993. It is a critique of the male bias that permeates the dominant \ religions of the world, with specific reference to Hinduism and Islam in India, \ and a critique of ruthless politicians who use the communal divide to further \ their own ends. In 2004 the film was included by Dox Magazine (Europe) amongst the 50 \ memorable documentaries in world cinema. Information on this film and other \ works by Anand is available from the website www.patwardhan.com Thanking You Regards Shashi Mehta (09819188806), Simantini Dhuru (09820528030) Contact for Anand Patwardhan (09819882244) anandpat at gmail.com \ www.patwardhan.com From mail at shivamvij.com Wed Oct 4 21:47:35 2006 From: mail at shivamvij.com (Shivam Vij) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:47:35 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Google Video: Burning books at AIIMS Message-ID: <9c06aab30610040917o1c9281c5s238a08dcff47ce37@mail.gmail.com> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8912592540526323634&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20061004/a31bc91e/attachment.html From patrice at xs4all.nl Thu Oct 5 14:13:51 2006 From: patrice at xs4all.nl (Patrice Riemens) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:43:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Reader-list] newsletter eurozine octobre 06: On the Indian view of things Message-ID: <24296.84.192.158.206.1160037831.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> (excerpt from:) Newsletter 10/2006 * Article of the month: On the Indian view of things > > Article of the month: On the Indian view of things With India as guest of honour at the Franfurt Book Fair, Wespennest publishes a conversation between Austrian writer on religion Adolf Holl and Indian psychoanalyst and author Sudhir Kakar, whose book The Indians. Portrait of a Society was published this year. Beginning with a contrast between the Western and Indian ego ("In the West, the ego is a fortress [...] The exchange between environment and ego is emphasized much more strongly in India"), the discussion of "The Indian view of things" moves onto religion and the female principle: "For me, the most important religious moment [...] is the gaze into the mother's countenance, in which the child also sees itself," Kakar tells Holl. "That is religious awe, entrancement, magic. Human beings want to rediscover this magic in religion. [...] This awe, this magic, is actually sought in all possible kinds of religion and, as long as the religion is not some dead ritual, can also be found." Moving through India's penetration of the West in the form of Ayurveda, esotericism, and the wellness trend -- "I welcome all these things that have come to the West through globalization [...] I'm not one of those who say that everything always has to be authentic" -- the conversation ends on Kakar's analysis of the connections between globalization, class, and religion in India today: "Globalization is actually not rejected by Hindu nationalists, and that's the biggest difference to Christian and Muslim fundamentalists. The only thing that is strictly rejected by all is liberated Western sexuality. All fundamentalists are scared of the sexual aspect of the modern. The Hindus define themselves as the winners of globalization in the areas of technology, finance, and communication, while the Muslims consider themselves more as losers." Adolf Holl, Sudhir Kakar On the Indian view of things This article is available in German and English. .................................................................................... If you have questions or comments, please write to us: comments.newsletter at eurozine.com To subscribe, follow this link, or visit the Eurozine Newsletter page: www.eurozine.com/newsletter.html. > Eurozine Imprint > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Email: office at eurozine.com > Web: http://www.eurozine.com > Phone: +43-1-334 29 80 > Fax: +43-1-334 29 80-20 > Postal address: Rembrandtstraße 31/10, A-1020 Wien, Austria > > Eurozine Newsletter: 2006-10-03 | 10/2006 From quraishy at sarai.net Fri Oct 6 11:26:26 2006 From: quraishy at sarai.net (Moslem Ali Quraishy) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:56:26 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] Google Code Search Message-ID: <89386aeebccbecb5feb83271ffac5db5@sarai.net> Google has introduced a new search service -- strictly for computer programmers only. Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming code to improve existing software or create new programs. Similar to how a consumer might type a few words into a standard Google search box to find an answer, programmers can seek out relevant lines of code at http://google.com/codesearch and find a range of search results that link them to answers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500053. \ html Thanks & Regards, Moslem Quraishy From ashish_negi at cm.sarai.net Fri Oct 6 11:44:06 2006 From: ashish_negi at cm.sarai.net (Ashish Negi) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:14:06 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] [Internal] Google Code Search In-Reply-To: <89386aeebccbecb5feb83271ffac5db5@sarai.net> References: <89386aeebccbecb5feb83271ffac5db5@sarai.net> Message-ID: <0212dbb7764a484d556bfb6d5b4ad9b8@sarai.net> thanks ! it's a very good link for us cheers ashish On 7:56:26 am 10/06/06 "Moslem Ali Quraishy" wrote: > Google has introduced a new search service -- strictly for computer > programmers only. > > Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers > search for programming code to improve existing software or create > new programs. > > Similar to how a consumer might type a few words into a standard > Google search box to find an answer, programmers can seek out > relevant lines of code at http://google.com/codesearch and find a > range of search results that link them to answers. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006 > 100500053. \ > html > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Moslem Quraishy > > ___________________________________ > An Internal Sarai List > internal at sarai.net > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/internal From announcer at crit.org.in Thu Oct 5 21:25:55 2006 From: announcer at crit.org.in (7 Islands and a Metro) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:55:55 -0400 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Mumbai Release on 6 October Message-ID: <1160063755.7661.139.camel@localhost> Dear Friends: SEVEN ISLANDS AND A METRO, a non-fiction feature film by Madhusree Datta, will be theatrically released in Mumbai at INOX (Nariman Point), Fame Adlabs (Malad) and Fun Republic (Andheri) on FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2006. For show timings and more details, please contact Majlis at 101, Christina Apartments, near Police Post, Kalina-Kurla Road, Kalina Market, Mumbai 400098, Phone +91.22.5601.7723. For more information on the film, please visit http://7islandsfilm.googlepages.com ABOUT THE FILM A frayed rug round his shoulders, My father came down the Sahyadris And stood at your doorstep, With only his labour in his hands. -- from “Mumbai” by Narayan Surve The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives. By Madhusree Dutta Duration 100 minutes Format: DVcam / DG Beta Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi and Bombayia Actors: Harish Khanna / Vibha Chibbar Camera: Avijit Mukul Kishore Editing: Reena Mohan / Shyamal Karmakar Dialogue: Sara Rai Sound Design: Boby John Music: Arjun Sen Available with English and French subtitles MORE ABOUT THE FILM ‘Seven Islands and a Metro’ is a hard-hitting, yet lyrical take on Mumbai’s turbulent story. Where the city’s islands become touchstones for seven significant moments in its life to generate a tantalizing mix of images, anecdotes and information. Waves of migration, regularly hitting the city’s muddy shores all through the centuries, have left behind memories and mind-sets that still influence Mumbai. The film explores them through a touch of poetry, a bit of drama and mostly through unsettling conversations with its citizens. To reveal the contrary worldviews that make up Mumbai’s rambling public sphere. One that is as fragmented - and islanded – as it is cohesive - glued together by an abstract affection for the city. ‘Seven Islands and a Metro’ takes you through Mumbai’s streets so intimately you can smell them. It uncovers secrets from the past and constructs riddles for the present in a way that each frame surprises, puzzles and intrigues. Graveyards speak, application forms torment, Bombay ducks glisten, fisherwomen grumble, disembodied maps of the city haunt, futuristic vehicles rumble through the night, nights dance crazily and dancer’s bristle with indignation. Two extraordinary storytellers gather these tumultuous moments to re-tell their stories. After all, the city hasn’t changed that much – it still erupts into violence; people riot, the poor are destroyed, women get a raw deal – and stories have to be repeated, once again. The film pays a rich obeisance to the goddesses that guard Mumbai’s porous boundaries and personify its unpredictable moods, even though it disapproves of their cruel ways. After all, at the end of the day, the goddesses remain, like the resilient city itself, extraordinarily powerful. But each citizen, like the film, maintains the right to disobey. (from a review by Rahul Srivastava, social scientist based in Mumbai and Goa). ABOUT THE FILM-MAKER Madhusree Dutta is an alumnus of the National School of Drama, India, and has been making non-fiction films since 1993. Gender, identity and marginalisation are her chosen areas of work. She is the executive director of Majlis, a centre initiating multicultural projects in Mumbai, India. The centre is engaged in campaigning for cultural literacy among students and other youth groups, mobilizing artists around contemporary issues and in producing plays, films and multidisciplinary art works. Madhusree has designed a number of pedagogical courses on multiculturalism both for social movements and academic institutions. She has also curated and coordinated several art and cultural festivals, among others, Expressions, the first women’s art festival in India in 1990; India Sabka, a youth festival on multiculturalism in 2002; Substitute City, a multidisciplinary event on Bombay/Mumbai for Volksbuehne theatre, Berlin in 2003; Culture at WSF, the art component for the World Social Forum, 2004. Madhusree has co-edited, along with Flavia Agnes and Neera Adarkar, The Nation, The State and Indian Identity, an anthology of essays published in 1994. She has received several citizens’ honors among others the Salaam Mumbai award, Bharat Nirman award and Stree Shakti Sanman. _____ CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai Announcements List http://www.crit.org.in http://lists.crit.org.in/mailman/listinfo/announcer _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From cziellah at yahoo.co.in Sat Oct 7 14:42:03 2006 From: cziellah at yahoo.co.in (Yengkhom Jilangamba) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:12:03 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Reader-list] Irom Sharmila arrested Message-ID: <20061007091203.11848.qmail@web8401.mail.in.yahoo.com> New Delhi: In a late night swoop on Friday, the Delhi police arrested human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who is on a hunger strike against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, for six years from Jantar Mantar and took her to the All-India Institute for Medical Sciences for urgent medical treatment. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com Sat Oct 7 16:36:20 2006 From: mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 16:36:20 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Letter from Mohammed Afzal-to be hanged on the 20th... Message-ID: Letter to Sushil Kumar, senior advocate Supreme Court. This was the only stage when Afsal had a lawyer of his choice. But as you know, a criminal case is made at the trial stage (in the sessions court) when you cross-examine witnesses. At the HC and SC you don't can't into the evidences. And in the lawyer court there was no lawyer for Afsal. Respected Shri Sushil Kumar; Hello (I) I am extremely thankful and feel very much obligated to you that you have taken up my case and decided to defend me. From the beginning of this case I was neglected and had never been given a chance to reveal the truth before media or in court. The designated court did not provided me the lawyer inspite of giving three applications. In the high court one human rights lawyer asked the court that Afzal had expressed his desire that he want to be killed by toxic injection rather by hanging which is absolutely false. I never told this to my lawyer. Since that lawyer was not of my own choice (or my family) but it was due to my helplessness and non-accessibility to proper lawyer. Being locked up in high security jail and without being in communication with that human rights lawyer I could not change him or to convey my objection regarding my death desire to highcourt as I came to know this after high court's decision. In the parliament attack case I was entrapped by Special Task Force of Kashmir. Here in Delhi the designated court sentenced me to death on the basis of special police version which workes in nexus with STF, and also came under the influence of mass media in which I was made to accept the crime under duress and threat by special police A.C.P. Rajbir Singh. That threat even get confirmed to designated court by T.V. interviewer (Shams Tahir Aaj-Tak). When I was arrested in Srinagar bus stand I was taken to STF Headquarter from here the special police along with STF brought me to Delhi. In Srinagar at Parompora Police Station everything of my belongings was seized and then they beated me and threatened me of dire consequences regarding my wife and family if I reveal or disclose the reality before anybody. Even my younger brother Hilal Ahmad Guru he was taken into police custody without any warrant etc. and was kept there for 2-3 months. This was first told to me by A.C.P. Rajbir Singh. Special police told me that if I will speak according to their wishes they will not harm my family members and also gave me false assurance that they will make my case weak so that after sometime I will get released. The most important priority I gave to safety of my family. As I know from last seven years how the STF men kill, the Kashmiris, how they had made youth invisible and had disappeared them while killing them in custody. I am living and organic eye-witness to various tortures and custodial killings and I am myself the victim of STF terror and torture. Being an surrendered militant of JKLF I was constantly harassed, threatened and agonized by various security agencies like Army. B.S.F. and S.T. F., But since S.T.F. is unorganized, without being accountable a band and gang of renegades patronised by state government. They intrude every house, every family everywhere in Kashmir anytime day or night. If anybody is picked up by STF and his family came to know this, then family members only wait to get his dead body which they hope. But usually they never came to know his whereabouts. 6000 youthes have disappeared. Under these circumstances and under this fearful environment persons like me are always ready to play any dirty game in the hands of S.T.F. Just for the survival. The people who are able to pay in terms of cash are not forced to do the diryt things the way I did as I was not able to pay. Even one of the policeman of the same police station of Parimpora named Akbar had extorted 5000 Rs. Long brfore attack and threatened me that he will charge me as selling duplicate medicines and surgical items of which I was doing business at Sopore, in 2000. He came here in designated court and became a witness against me. He was knowing me before parliament attack. In the court room he told me in Kashmiri that my family is o.k. indirectly it was a hidden threat which the designated court hardly could realise otherwise in court I would have questioned him but before court started recording his statement he told me this. Throughout the trial I remained mute and helpless spectator as witnesses, police and even judge they all became a single force against me. I remained a frustrate bewildered and confused between the security and safety of myself and my family. I protected and saved my family. That is how I am lying in deathrow. II. In 1997-98 I started a business of medicines and surgical instruments on commission basis as I could not get a govt. job due to the reason of being an surrendered militant. Because surrendered militants were not given jobs. They were either to work as SPOs or STF or to join the renegades under the patronage of security forces or police. Everyday SPOs were get killed by militants. In these conditions I started my commission based business earning 4000Rs. – 5000Rs. per month. But since the police informers (SPOs) usually harass those surrendered militants who do not work with S.T.F. etc. >From 98-2000 I usually used to pay 300Rs. sometimes 500 Rs. to local SPO so as to keep myself in business otherwise these SPO make us to present us before security agencies. Even one of the SPO one day told me that they too have to pay their bosses. As I was working hard in my business my business flourished. One day at 10 AM I was on my Two wheeler scooter that I had purchased just before two months. I was whisked away by STF men in bullet proof gypsy to ------- camp. There the D.S.P. Vinay Gupta tortured me, electrified me—put me in cold water – used petrol—chillies and other techniques. He told me that I possess weapons but at evening time one of his inspector Farooq told me that if I can pay 1000,000 Rs. to him (D.S.P) I will be released or they will kill me. Then they took me to Humhama STF camp where D.S.P. Dravinder Singh also tortured me. One of his torture inspector as they called him Shanty Singh electrified me naked for 3 hours and made me drink water while giving electric shocks through telephone instrument. Ultimately I accepted to pay them 1000000Rs. for which my family sold the gold of my wife. Even after this they could manage only 80000 Rs. Then they took the scooter too which was just 2-3 months old which I bought for 24000Rs. Thus after getting 1lakh rupees they let me free. But now I was a broken person. In the same Humhama STF camp there was one more victim named Tariq. He suggested me that I should always co-operate with STF otherwise they will always harass and will not let me to live normal—free life. This was a turning point of my life . I decided to live the way Tariq told me. Since from 1990-1996 I had studied in Delhi University I was also giving tuitions in different coaching centres and also home tuitions. This fact reached to the man named Altaf Hussain who is brother-in-law of S.S.P. Ashaq Hussain of Budgam. Since it was this Altaf Hussain who managed my family rather he became the broker between my family and D.S.P. Humhama Dravinder Singh. Altaf told me that I should teach his two children one on 12th , 2nd [second one] in 10th class as his children were not able to go outside for tuition due to militant threat. Thus I became very close to Altaf's and Altaf also. One day Altaf took me to Dravinder Singh (D.S.P.). D.S. told me that I had to do a small job for him that has to took one man to delhi as I was well aware about Delhi and has to manage a rented house for him. Since I was not knowing the man but I suspected that this man is not Kashmiri as he did not speak in Kashmiri but I was helpless to do what Dravinder told me . I took him to Delhi. One day he told me that he want to purchase a car. Thus I went with him to Karol Bagh. He purchased the car. Then in Delhi he used to meet different persons and both of us he Mohammad and me used to get the different phone calls from Dravinder Singh. One day Mohammad told me that if he want to go back to Kashmir he can. He also gave me 35000Rs. and told me that this gift is for you. 6 days or 8 days before I took a rented room at Indra Vihar for my family as I decided to live in Delhi with my family because I was not satisfied with my this life. I left the keys of rented house to my land lady and told her that I will be back after Eid festival on 14th Dec. after parliament attack about which there was a lot of tension. I contacted Tariq in Sgr. [Srinagar]. At evening he told me when I came back from Delhi. I replied just one hour before. Next morning when I was about to leave to Sopore from bus stand Sgr. police caught me and took me to Parampora police station . Tariq was there also with STF. They took 35000 Rs. from my pocket, beated me and directly took me STF Head Quarter. From there I was taken to Delhi. My eyes were blind folded. Here I found myself in special police torture cell. In special cell custody I told them everything regarding Mohammad etc. but they told me that I Showkat his wife Navjot (Afshan) Geelani are the people behind parliament attack. They too threatened me regarding my family and one of the inspector told me that my younger brother Hilal Ahmad Guru is in STF custody. They can lift the other family members too if I don't co-operate with them. They tried me and forced me to implicate Showkat his wife and Geelani but I did not yield. I told them this is not possible. Then they told me that I should not say anything about Geelani (be about his innocence). After some days I was presented before media hand-cuffed. There were NDTV, Aaj tak, Zee news, Sahara TV etc. Rajbeer Singh (A.C.P.) was also there. When one of the interviewer Shams tahir told me what is the role of Geelani in parliament attack, I just said that Geelani is innocent. This moment A.C.P. Rajbeer Singh got up from his moving chair he shouted at me and told me that he had already said me not to speak about Geelani in front of everybody (Media-personnel). Rajbeer Singh's behaviour exposed my helplessness and media personnel atleast came to know that what Afzal is saying under threat or duress. Then Rajbir Singh (A.C.P.) requested T.V. personel that the question regarding Geelani should be washed away or not to be shown before public. At evening time Rajbir Singh told me that if I want to talk [to] my family. I replied in yes. Then I talked to my wife. After finishing my phone he told me if I want to see my wife & family alive I must co-operate [with] them at every step. They took me to various places in delhi. >From where they showed that Mohammad had purchased different things. They took me to Kashmir from where we came back without doing anything. They made me to sign on atleast 200-300 blank pages. I was never given an [a] chance in [the] designated court to tell the real story. The judge told me that I will be given full opportunity to speak at the end of case but at the end he even did not recorded my all statements neither the court gave me whatever even court recorded. If phone numbers recorded will be seen carefully the court would have come to know the phone numbers of STF. Now I hope that the Supreme Court will consider my helplessness and the reality through which I had passed. STF made an [a] scapegoat in all this criminal act which was designed and directed by STF and others which I don't know. Special Police is definitely the part of this game because every time they forced me to remain silent. I hope my forced silence will be heard and justice will prevail. I once again pay heart felt thanks to your good self for defending my case. May truth prevail! (Sd) Mohammad Afzal S/O Habibullah Guru Ward No. 6(High Security Ward) Jail No. 1, Tihar New Delhi 110064 From arshad.mcrc at gmail.com Sun Oct 8 08:56:17 2006 From: arshad.mcrc at gmail.com (arshad amanullah) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 08:56:17 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] FILM CELEBRATES AMERICAN RAMAZAN Message-ID: <2076f31d0610072026g49a65be1k6bcf2373bf26455f@mail.gmail.com> FILM CELEBRATES AMERICAN RAMAZAN Washington: A Muslim-Amarican film-maker has directed a new and unique film about the American Muslim experience in the holy fasting month of Ramazan in order to counter the negative stereotype in the mainstream media and to meet the growing demand for positive Muslim content."Our goal essentially was to show American Muslims in realistic light," said Naeem Randhawa,a first time film-maker. " We want to show Muslims in their real world that we don't often get to see in mainstream media or Hollywood, ' he added. Islam had been lampooned in movies,writings and TV shows in the United States,including "JAG","24" ,and Arnold Schwarzen-egger's "True Lies". Trying to build bridges between all faithts,the film shows the personal stories of five American Muslim families observing their faith in Ramazan with commentary by a Jewish rabbi,Christian doctor and a Muslim scholar. "We want to show that Muslims are a very diverse group," said Randhawa,who was born in Pakistan and raised in Canada. In his movie, Randhawa tried to show that American Muslims are part of the fabric of America and that they go through the same issues as their fellow Americans."American Muslims have the same hopes, fears and aspirations as any other American has," he said. Randhawa's documentary will be screened round the nation and will enter into film festivals in the US and abroad. It will be aired on PBS-Dallas,Link TV, KRA and other netwroks world-wide. The film has already been awarded official Selection status by 'Dallas South Asian Film Fest' and Dallas video Fest' , the first two fests that it was submitted to. (Islamic Voice,Monthly,Bangalore,October-2006). arshad amanullah 35,masihgarh, jamia nagar new delhi-25. From mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com Sun Oct 8 11:57:35 2006 From: mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:57:35 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] mailka pukhraj throgh Saleem Kidwai Message-ID: Saleem Kidwai, the author of Same Sex Love in India and the translator of Malika Pukhraj's memoirs Song Sung True will hold a conversation about Malika Pukhraj and other Singing Ladies of twentieth century at Sarai on Monday, 9th October at 3 pm. There will also be a brief reading from Song Sung True. From ravis at sarai.net Sun Oct 8 14:58:14 2006 From: ravis at sarai.net (Ravi Sundaram) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:58:14 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] monday the 9th Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20061008145657.035f6700@mail.sarai.net> Dear Sadan and all, i wont be in this monday as I have just got an important research appt. I will be in Tuesday the 10th. best Ravi From mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com Sun Oct 8 16:40:22 2006 From: mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 16:40:22 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Jahangirabad Media Director Announcement Message-ID: Apropos the announcement calling for applications to the post of the director for the Jehangirabad Media Institute at Barabanki, the following is the e-mail address that one can write to- Chairmanjmisearch at yahoo.co.in -------------------- Jahangirabad Media Institute has been set up by Jahangirabad Education Trust under Jahangirabad Institute of Technology as one of its centers of excellence in electronic media. JMI aims to train and shape highly skilled professionals for the video, television and advertising industry. Its broad mission is to impart a holistic education It aims to stimulate creative potential of students and to cultivate a scientific temper, carry out research in media and communication and encourage the students to creatively e xplore the audio visual medium for social change. To achieve above objective the institute is currently imparting post graduate diploma to prepare its students for a leading careers in TV channels, production houses, advertising firms, MNC's, media research and educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, more courses are planned soon. This premier institute of higher learning is located in the fort of Jahangirabad, a 19th century palatial monument, built across the serene and picturesque environs of more than 30-acre campu s at Barabanki district, is about 35 kilometers from Lucknow City . The institute is loo king for Director, The candidate will be a Dynamic media professional with a vision & passion to shape the Media Studies and set global benchmarks. The ideal candidate will have proven track record as a leader and of handling academic, administrative and financial matters. He/She will have excellent contacts in the media & government agencies. The position carries competitive emoluments as well as appropriate ac commodation on the campus. The interested candidates are requested to send their detailed resume in confidence along with a 'Vision Paper' to: The Chairman Search Committee for Director Media Institute Jahangirabad Institute of Technology Jahangirabad Fort. District Barabanki UP." From mail at shivamvij.com Mon Oct 9 02:43:25 2006 From: mail at shivamvij.com (Shivam Vij) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 02:43:25 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Bant Singh: Celebrating Resistance Message-ID: <9c06aab30610081413h2edaf75cra0af6a13d94dc60@mail.gmail.com> [ Please spread the word. Info on Bant Singh here: 1) http://tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=Cr052706An_appeal.asp 2) http://www.flonnet.com/fl2302/stories/20060210003703300.htm 3) http://www.himalmag.com/2006/october/profile.htm 4) http://www.petitiononline.com/Bant06/petition.html ] ====================================================== http://doingdelhi.blogspot.com/2006/10/bant-singh-can-still-singh.html ====================================================== Bant Singh: Celebrating Resistance Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:00 pm JNU City Centre, Near Mandi House 35, Feroze Shah Road Delhi, Delh, India Phone: 9868038981 Forum for Democratic Initiatives invites you to an evening of cultural performances to celebrate resistance. Bant Singh, a Dalit singer and an agrarian worker, who continues to be defiant even after the amputation of three limbs, is currently being treated in St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi. The doctors are hopeful that with artificial limbs, Bant Singh will be able to walk again. An evening of cultural performances to honour Bant Singh's courage and defiance and to raise funds for his rehabilitation will be held on 15th October 2006 (Sunday) venue: jnu city centre, near mandi house, 35, feroze shah road, new delhi time: 4:00 pm * an exhibition of photographs by raghu rai and others * 'video letter from bant singh' * musical performance by rahul ram of indian ocean * sufi songs by dhruv sangari * bhojpuri songs by hirawal, a patna-based cultural group * ragini and haryanvi folk songs * akarmashi: a play based on saran kumar limbale's story * dastangoi: the lost art of urdu story telling by mahmood farooqui and danish husain * protest poetry by balli singh cheema and others * revolutionary Punjabi songs by iqbal udasi Contributions for the programme will be directed to the 'bant singh relief fund' Entries are through coupons ranging from Rs. 100/- to Rs. 500/- For further details, coupons and contributions contact: Forum for democratic initiatives 9868038981/ 9811625577 / 9910074470/ 9810252416/ 9818416968/ 9871338943 From aarti at sarai.net Mon Oct 9 01:58:09 2006 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti Sethi) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 01:58:09 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings of Online Pornography Message-ID: <3B62865B-CE76-4718-B567-0D692CF40B7D@sarai.net> Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings of Online Pornography Facilitated by Susana Paasonen 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Satruday, 14 October 20056 Seminar Room Sarai-CSDS This one day workshop addresses the politics involved in feminist, cross-cultural studies of (online) pornography and possible departures from the still influential legacy of North-American sex wars of the 1980s. With specific attention on location and theorisations of affect, we will discuss the critical possibilities of context-specificity and 'other pornographies'. [Susanna Paasonen, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä and Reader in Universities of Turku and Tampere, Finland. Her research interests include Internet research, feminist theory, studies of popular culture and pornography. She is the author of Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse (Peter Lang, 2005), and the co-editor of the anthologies Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity (Lang, 2002) and Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (Berg, forthcoming in 2007). Url: http://www.translocal.net/susanna/] To register, please send a short bio and why you wish to attend the workshop to dak at sarai.net by 12 October 2006. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From nicheant at yahoo.co.uk Sat Oct 7 18:03:37 2006 From: nicheant at yahoo.co.uk (Nishant) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:33:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] Essar gets tribal spit on its face Message-ID: <20061007123337.9278.qmail@web27903.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Essar gets tribal spit on its face (http://merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=123539&catID=2&category=India) Seby Rodrigues 07 October 2006, Saturday Industry biggies that have signed up to set up mega projects in Jharkhand are facing the heat of violent opposition from the affected tribals. Essar Steel recently experienced their seething rage. EVEN AS RED-CARPET welcome is being extended to corporate investors in Jharkhand, getting to the ground is not so easy. Essar Steel learnt this lesson recently on September 29 near the Chaibasa city. As part of a confidence-building exercise, Essar Steel organized medical camps in collaboration with the doctors of Chaibasa Sadar Hospital. The company had held one camp in Buzujol village with moderate success and emboldened by it organized another in Ulijhari. And, it is here that it got the taste of Adivasi revolt and was forced to beat a hasty retreat. Tribal chief Antu Hembrom, who was cooperating with the company, was caught and beaten up in front of company officials and the Jharkhand Police, and then tied and paraded through the city market, with women spitting into his face. Hembrom was also forced to give a written undertaking that he will not henceforth collaborate with the company. A pot was hung around his neck with a poster reading: “I am a land robber.” A garland of slippers was also presented to Hembrom, who is also the president of Manki Munda Sangh. He was forced to walk, carrying the poster and the garland, a distance of 4 km. Essar Steel plans to set up a steel plant and make major investments in the state. It is among the 44 corporates that signed memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with the previous state government headed by Arjun Munda. The new government, headed by Madhu Koda, has upheld MoUs signed by the earlier government, but with a mild warning that “unnecessary” MoUs would be cancelled. It has, however, not spelt out the cancellation criteria. The quantum of investments in mining and other industrial plants are around Rs 66,000 crore. Among the major investors in Jharkhand, besides Essar Steel, are Tatas, Mittals, Jindals, Dempos and South African De beers. Each of these companies is finding it tough getting hold of suitable land for its project. A number of officials of these companies have been prevented — sometimes violently — from conducting surveys, as most such lands are inhabited by tribals and Dalits. A large-scale industrialization of Jharkhand has been planned. This will displace and uproot a large number of natives from their forest areas, where they have been living and farming for ages. Essar Steel organized a medical camp in Ulihatu village, where the villagers were given ladoos to eat and some tablets to get cure of the various diseases identified by the doctors at the campsite. Essar then took signatures of the villagers on a blank paper. Nobody knows what happened to those blank papers on which the villagers’ signatures were taken. The company, in a press statement to the Ranchi edition of The Telegraph called it a “confidence-building exercise” with the villagers whom the company is trying to get rid of. But ironically it was the company’s confidence that got shattered when angry villagers refused to eat the ladoos and swallow the tablets. Essar Steel is seeking land measuring 4,000 acres, which is estimated to directly displace about 15,000 persons near Chaibasa. The villages that are resisting Essar Steel project are Amita, Achu, Buzujul, Barizol, Katikutu, Ulijhari, Chinihatu, Kanki, Lokyahatu, Nakahatu, Sinderi and Ulihatu. All these villages are in West Singhbhum District’s Sadar Prakhand. Villagers were alerted when the company itself served letters to village heads (Mundas) before the state authorities could come out in its support. This was followed by a letter from the state authorities intimating plans for land survey for the company. Villagers then responded with letters of protest and demonstrations. Essar is not the only company that is vying for the land in these remote villages. Prakash Industries and Rungta industries are also in the race to buy out land. Essar officials were earlier chased away from Manoharpur district of West Singhbhum. The same land is being preyed upon by Goa’s Dempo Mining Corporation. And, they are facing an equally uphill task. Corporates that are all set to invest in Jharkhand are finding the going tough in the initial stages and are keeping their fingers crossed on the fate that will befall them them in the future. Essar Steel is the first to have got the bitter taste. It is now an open battle of wits as Adivasis vow to fight until death. Tribals in Orissa have affirmed that they will not get cowed down even though if blasted by Tata’s landmines in Kalinganagar. The road to development of Jharkhand is as fraught with dangers as one saw earlier in Orissa on January 2. (With inputs from Ashish Kudada, Ulijhari village, Sadar, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand.) ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! 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From: homen thangjam Subject: Fwd: [Campaign update: manipur Freedom] Repeal Armed Force Act:: Sharmila continues fast at AIIMS Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:16:53 +0100 (BST) Size: 9098 Url: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20061008/b25330b2/attachment.mht From mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com Mon Oct 9 13:18:43 2006 From: mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:18:43 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: Dastangoi and other performances for Bant Singh's fund raising In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Husain Date: 08-Oct-2006 22:25 Subject: Dastangoi and other performances for Bant Singh's fund raising To: Hey Everyone, We're doing a Dastangoi performance as part of a fund raiser for Shri Bant Singh. I am sure you must have heard about him. If you're curious then you may click here for details. I'd request you to join us at the fund raiser and contribute to Bant Singh's rehabilitation funds. If you cannot make it then you may, if you wish, tip your friends about this fund raiser. Thanks & warm regards, Danish Bant Singh Can Still Singh Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:00 pm JNU City Centre, Near Mandi House 35, Feroze Shah Road Delhi, Delh, India Map & Directions Phone: 9868038981 Forum for Democratic Initiatives invites you to an evening of cultural performances to celebrate resistance. Bant Singh, a Dalit singer and an agrarian worker, who continues to be defiant even after the amputation of three limbs, is currently being treated in St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi. The doctors are hopeful that with artificial limbs, Bant Singh will be able to walk again. Bant Singh was assaulted by powerful landlords in Mansa, Punjab for consistently pursuing the legal battle against the rapists of his daughter and for organising the rural poor under the banner of Mazdoor Mukti Morcha (of the All India Agriculture Labour Association). An evening of cultural performances to honour Bant Singh's courage and defiance and to raise funds for his rehabilitation will be held on 15th October 2006 (Sunday) venue: jnu city centre, near mandi house, 35, feroze shah road, new delhi time: 4:00 pm * an exhibition of photographs by raghu rai and others * 'video letter from bant singh' * musical performance by rahul ram of indian ocean * sufi songs by dhruv sangari * bhojpuri songs by hirawal, a patna-based cultural group * ragini and haryanvi folk songs * akarmashi: a play based on saran kumar limbale's story * dastangoi: the lost art of urdu story telling by mahmood farooqui and danish husain * protest poetry by balli singh cheema and others * revolutionary Punjabi songs by Iqbal Udasi Contributions for the programme will be directed to the 'bant singh relief fund' Entries are through coupons ranging from Rs. 100/- to Rs. 500/- For further details, coupons and contributions contact: Forum for democratic initiatives 9868038981/ 9811625577 / 9910074470/ 9810252416/ 9818416968/ 9871338943 http://punjabdalitsolidarity.blogspot.com - -- Dan's Blogs http://shamethepoem.blogspot.com http://proseonama.blogspot.com http://dastangoi.blogspot.com http://writersagainstterrorism.blogspot.com From jcm at ata.org.pe Mon Oct 9 18:23:28 2006 From: jcm at ata.org.pe (Jose-Carlos Mariategui) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:53:28 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] RESISTANCES: THE FIRST MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES IN PERU Message-ID: ---> English (Spanish version follows) CENTRO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA AND ATA PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION ³RESISTENCIAS: PRIMERAS VANGUARDIAS MUSICALES EN EL PERÚ² (RESISTANCES: THE FIRST MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES IN PERÚ) * ³Resistencias² rescues and highlights the works from a generation of internationally-renowned Peruvian avant-garde musicians. * Science, art and new technologies ­all considered from a historical perspective­ will come together in this, the second exhibition organized by sound art festival VIBRA: Audio Lima Experimental. * The exhibition will be complemented by a series of activities in which two generations of musicians, each one from a different avant-garde, will join together in concerts and seminars. During the sixties, music experienced an age of splendor all over the world, due to the emergence of great geniuses who have become a part of the cultural heritage in the West and part of the East. People from almost every corner of the world were singing to, dancing to and thinking to the rhythm of the big names in music. Thanks to the emergence of new concepts and new technologies, those years were a time for research and experimentation. And Lima¹s musical scene was not the exception. The sixties saw the birth of a gifted generation of Peruvian musicians, who experimented with the new languages developed after the end of the Second World War. Serialism, aleatory techniques, electronic devices, electro acoustic music and an interdisciplinary approach were key to the works of this Peruvian avant-garde. César Bolaños, Édgar Valcárcel, Olga Pozzi-Escot, Leopoldo La Rosa, Enrique Pinilla, Celso Garrido-Lecca, Alejandro Núñez Allauca, Walter Casas, among others, revolutionized Peruvian experimental music history, and left a mark that spread beyond the boundaries of their country. Centro Fundación Telefónica and Alta Tecnología Andina association present Resistencias: primeras vanguardias musicales en el Perú (Resistances: the first musical avant-gardes in Peru), the second exhibition organized by sound art festival VIBRA: Audio Lima Experimental. Resistencias intends to uncover and re-discover the significance of this generation of Peruvian experimental scholarly composers, whose works had a national and international impact, and who had an intensely active career during the sixties, yet today are unknown to the general public. Public assisting to Sala Paréntesis of Centro Fundación Telefónica will be part of an experience in which they will be able to see, listen and come closer to these musicians¹ worlds through sound documents, such as recordings from reel-to-reel tapes that have been digitalized for the first time; and documents, such as photographs, show programs, press clippings, and scores. Furthermore, there is a video recording of interviews made to the composers, which will allow the public to be acquainted with the context in which this generation developed, a context marked by a complete reinvention of scholar music in Latin America. Complementary activities As a complement to Resistencias, Centro Fundación Telefónica presents a seminar about musical avant-gardes in Latin America, and a concert of Peruvian compositions and performances. Seminar: ³Latinoamérica y la vanguardia musical² (Latin America and the musical avant-garde) Presented by Centro Fundación Telefónica, this seminar will be held on October 12th, 17th, 18th, 24th, 26th and 31st. It will allow the public to be acquainted with how Latin America experienced the first samples of electronic music and the avant-garde, starting from the fifties. The research done by Luis Alvarado ­about musical avant-gardes in Peru and Latin America­ is the starting point for this seminar in which will take part some renowned composers and theorists from Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Peru, such as: Édgar Valcárcel (Peru), Leopoldo La Rosa (Peru), José Javier Castro (Peru), Luis Alvarado (Peru), Daniel Varela (Argentina), Francisco Kröpfl (Argentina), Federico Schumacher (Chile), and Mesías Maiguashca (Ecuador). Place: Centro Fundación Telefónica Address: 1155 Arequipa Ave., Lima Entrance: free of charge (limited seating capacity), after registration at http://www.centro.fundaciontelefonica.org.pe. Tributo (Homage) Adaptation of Intihuatana for string quartet (1967), composed by Celso Garrido-Lecca, performed by electric guitar players Valentín Yoshimoto, Tete Leguía, Paulo Novoa and Renzo Gianella, and conducted by young musician Juan Carlos Rivera. Also, José Javier Castro will perform an adaptation of Interpolaciones (Interpolations) for electric guitar and sound recording tape (1966), composed by César Bolaños. Place: Centro Fundación Telefónica Date: Friday, October 27th Time: 19.00 Entrance: free of charge (limited seating capacity) The festival takes place at Centro Fundación Telefónica, open Monday to Saturday from 12.00 to 21.00 (Wednesdays closed), and Sundays from 12.00 to 19.00. Access to all activities is free of charge (limited availability). Centro Fundación Telefónica can also be reached at http://centro.fundaciontelefonica.org.pe/. ---> Spanish CENTRO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA Y ATA PRESENTAN LA MUESTRA ³RESISTENCIAS: PRIMERAS VANGUARDIAS MUSICALES EN EL PERÚ² · ³Resistencias² rescata y pone en valor la obra de una generación de músicos peruanos de vanguardia internacionalmente reconocidos. · Esta muestra es la segunda exposición del festival de arte sonoro VIBRA: Audio Lima Experimental, y en ella confluyen ciencia, arte y nuevas tecnologías en una perspectiva histórica. · La exposición será complementada por actividades en donde dos generaciones de músicos, cada una desde sus vanguardias, se encontrarán en interesantes conciertos y seminarios. Durante los años sesenta, la música a nivel mundial gozaba de un momento de esplendor por la aparición de grandes genios que hoy son parte del acervo cultural de occidente y parte de oriente. Personas de casi todas las latitudes cantaban, bailaban y pensaban al ritmo de los grandes de la música. Estos años significaron una época de búsqueda y experimentación, gracias a nuevos conceptos y a nuevas tecnologías. Y la escena limeña no fue la excepción. Los años sesenta vieron surgir a una talentosa generación de músicos peruanos que experimentaron con los nuevos lenguajes desarrollados tras la segunda posguerra. Serialismo, aleatoriedad, electrónica, electroacústica e interdisciplinariedad, son las coordenadas de la creación musical de esa vanguardia peruana. César Bolaños, Edgar Valcárcel, Olga Pozzi-Escot, Leopoldo La Rosa, Enrique Pinilla, Celso Garrido-Lecca, Alejandro Núñez Allauca, Walter Casas, entre otros, fueron quienes revolucionaron la historia de la música experimental nacional y dejaron una marca más allá de las fronteras del país. El Centro Fundación Telefónica y la asociación Alta Tecnología Andina presentan la exposición Resistencias: Primeras vanguardias musicales en el Perú, como segunda muestra del festival de arte sonoro Vibra: Audio Lima Experimental.. Resistencias responde a la intención de poner al descubierto la importancia, de carácter nacional e internacional, que tuvo la existencia de esta generación de compositores académicos experimentales peruanos, que estuvo intensamente activa en la década de 1960, y que hoy pasa desapercibida para el público. Los asistentes a la Sala Paréntesis del Centro Fundación Telefónica serán partícipes de una experiencia en donde podrán ver, escuchar y aproximarse al mundo de estos músicos, a través de documentos sonoros tales como grabaciones digitalizadas por primera vez a partir de las cintas de carrete originales; y de documentos gráficos, como fotografías, programas, recortes periodísticos y partituras. Además, un video con entrevistas a los compositores permitirá conocer el contexto en el que se desarrolló esta generación, marcada por una renovación musical de la música erudita en Latinoamérica. Actividades complementarias Para complementar Resistencias, el Centro Fundación Telefónica presentará un seminario sobre vanguardias musicales en Latinoamérica y un concierto con composiciones e interpretaciones hechas por peruanos. Seminario ³Latinoamérica y la vanguardia musical² Los días 12, 17, 18, 24, 26 y 31 de octubre el Centro Fundación Telefónica presenta este seminario a través del cual el público asistente conocerá la experiencia latinoamericana en torno a las primeras manifestaciones de la música electrónica y de vanguardia a partir de los años cincuenta. Este seminario parte de la investigación realizada por Luis Alvarado acerca de las vanguardias musicales en el Perú y Latinoamérica. Contará con la presencia de reconocidos compositores y teóricos de Argentina, Chile, Ecuador y Perú, como Edgar Valcárcel (Perú), Leopoldo la Rosa (Perú), José Javier Castro (Perú), Luis Alvarado (Perú), Daniel Varela (Argentina), Francisco Kröpfl (Argentina), Federico Schumacher (Chile), Mesías Maiguashca (Ecuador). Lugar: Centro Fundación Telefónica Dirección: Av. Arequipa 1155, Lima Ingreso gratuito, capacidad limitada. Inscríbete en www.centro.fundaciontelefónica.org.pe Tributo Adaptación de Intihuatana para cuarteto de cuerdas (1967), de Celso Garrido-Lecca, que interpretarán los guitarristas eléctricos Valentín Yoshimoto, Tete Leguía, Paulo Novoa y Renzo Gianella, dirigidos por el joven músico Juan Carlos Rivera. Asimismo, José Javier Castro interpretará la adaptación de Interpolaciones para guitarra eléctrica y cinta magnetofónica (1966), de César Bolaños. Fecha: Viernes 27 de Octubre Hora: 7:00 p.m. Lugar: Centro Fundación Telefónica Ingreso libre, capacidad limitada El Festival se realiza en el Centro Fundación Telefónica, el cual está abierto al servicio de la comunidad de lunes a sábado de 12.00 m. a 9.00 p.m. (a excepción del miércoles que está cerrado) y los domingos de 12.00 m. a 7.00 p.m. El ingreso para todas las actividades es gratuito y la capacidad limitada. Además, se puede acceder al Centro a través de http://centro.fundaciontelefonica.org.pe/ From sirfirf at yahoo.com Mon Oct 9 19:50:50 2006 From: sirfirf at yahoo.com (irfan) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 07:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Reader-list] one hundred singing ladies! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061009142050.76229.qmail@web36812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Mahmood and all, I have compiled one hundred pre recorded songs of one hundred singing ladies of twentieth century.I am looking for some financial support to make the whole project public. Irfan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From trebor at thing.net Mon Oct 9 23:08:11 2006 From: trebor at thing.net (Trebor Scholz) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:38:11 -0400 Subject: [Reader-list] Reminder: ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: The Center for Virtual Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the Institute for Distributed Creativity, and The Architectural League of New York present: ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES October 19-21, 2006 @ The Urban Center & Eyebeam New York City http://www.situatedtechnologies.net A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore new sites of practice, research vectors, and working methods for the confluence of Architecture and Situated Technologies. Organized by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, and Mark Shepard Participants: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Richard Coyne, Michael Fox, Anne Galloway, Charlie Gere, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Sheila Kennedy, Eric Paulos, Karmen Franinovic, Kazys Varnelis NOTE: Space is limited. Reservations/advance ticket purchase required. Contact: Jessica Blaustein - blaustein at archleague.org or call 212.753.1722x13 From quraishy at sarai.net Tue Oct 10 11:18:02 2006 From: quraishy at sarai.net (Moslem Ali Quraishy) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:48:02 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] Web Curator Tool Message-ID: Web Curator Tool 1.1 Released on (22 September 2006) The National Library of New Zealand, the British Library, and Sytec Resources Ltd are pleased to announce the official launch of the Web Curator Tool as an open-source project. The release was announced on Friday at The 6th International Web Archiving Workshop in Alicante, Spain. Steve Knight (National Library of New Zealand) and Philip Beresford (British Library) spoke about the development of the tool and their future plans, and Arun Persad gave a live demonstartion of the tool in action. Version 1.1 of the Web Curator Tool can be downloaded from http://webcurator.sf.net/. The source code is also freely available under the terms of the Apache Public License. With regards Moslem quraishy Sarai Archive Delhi From cziellah at yahoo.co.in Tue Oct 10 12:21:23 2006 From: cziellah at yahoo.co.in (Yengkhom Jilangamba) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:51:23 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Reader-list] afspa Message-ID: <20061010065123.29033.qmail@web8404.mail.in.yahoo.com> REPEAL ARMED FORCES SPECIAL POWERS ACT, 1958 A CALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION Miss Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike since Nov 2006 demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 2000. This was her immediate response to the Malom Massacre (Manipur) of 2nd Nov 2000 when the Assam Rifles massacred 10 innocent civilians, including women and children, and brutally assaulted more than 64 civilians in the name of counter insurgency. She was arrested on the charge of attempted homicide and has been forced fed in custody. After her escape she reached Delhi on 4th October and continued her hunger strike at Janter Manter, Delhi. She was arrested by the police on 6th October 2006. The people’s movement against Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, (AFSPA) has been continuing since the time of its very imposition in 1958. The movement has been historically fought by many struggling communities. It is important to remember that when the Act was enacted for the first time in 1958, many regions where the Act was imposed did not have a manifestation of armed struggle. Moreover, this Act of 1958 is the continuation of a colonial law (to suppress Quit India Movement-1942) in ‘post-colonial’ India. The inherent colonial character of independent India is manifested in the ‘continuance’ defining the frontiers as politico-military regions only. The resistance against AFSPA is imminent in the wake of prolonged experiences of involuntary disappearances, rape, killings on mere suspicion, protest, self-immolation, nude protest, ceaseless hunger strikes and street protests. The rape and killing of Thangjam Monarama by paramilitary, nude protest of Manipuri women, self-immolation of Pebam Chitranjan against AFSPA and continuing hunger strike of Irom Sharmila against AFSPA since November 2000 are some of the accounts that explain the existential state of the people in Manipur and elsewhere. This shared experience of existential deprivation of many societies is well reflected in some of the Clauses of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, as the most fundamental question of Right to life itself is suspended. To cite, under the Article 4 Clause (a) of the AFSPA, the security forces can use force “even causing death” on mere grounds of suspicion and ‘arrest any person without warrant’ and Article 6 further implicates a total derailing of the autonomy of federal/constituting units of India as it says that without a prior approval of the Central government no commissions or prosecutions or other legal proceedings be constituted against the issues concerning the Act. Such tendencies of the Act spell out the politics of defining how specific communities are suspected historically by the Indian State which is aptly seen in the Article 4 (a) of AFSPA. The struggle against AFSPA has been successful in initiating a wider demand for repealing the Act at the mass level. Today, the presence of Irom Sharmila in Delhi (arrested by Delhi police on 6th Oct 06) continuing her hunger strike at AIIMS and not being responded to the demand for repeal by the Government has in turn strengthened the collective struggle against the Act. It is important to remember that when the movement against the AFSPA in 2004 reached a significant height, the GOI set up the Justice Reddy Committee to review the Act. This Committee report has still not been made public by the GOI. Ironically, the leaked copy of the report has nothing substantial for the people despite its recommendation for the ‘Repeal of the Act’. For, it recommends the incorporation of AFSPA in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 which will be operable all over India. The ‘collective’ will always fight against any form of re-appropriation of the Act. We demand: * Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. * Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee Report on AFSPA, 1958, public. * Do not retain AFSPA in any form. JOIN US Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 ITO, Delhi 11 October 2006 Time: 11:00 AM. (Bring your protest Banners) Issued by: MSAD, NPMHR, LRS, SAHELI, DMMSA, JNUSU, AISA, DSU, FDI, MRFD, JAGORI, PSU, Other Media, PUDR, PUCL, PLS, HRA, HRLN, Oxfam, Amnesty I, SANGAT, CG P I, MPO, ISI-Delhi, New Democracy. KJS, SAD, KYSV, JKLF, Yuba Bharat, Justice for worker, NTUI, SPDPR. Mail: msad_manipur at yahoo.com/ adissent at yahoo.co.in/ mningthouja at yahoo.com Date: 08-10-2006. Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), 9811352626 (Banerjit). __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From cziellah at yahoo.co.in Tue Oct 10 12:24:03 2006 From: cziellah at yahoo.co.in (Yengkhom Jilangamba) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:54:03 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Reader-list] AFSPA Message-ID: <20061010065403.27918.qmail@web8401.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear all, Miss Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike since Nov 2006 demanding the repealing of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 2000. This was her immediate response to the Malom Massacre (Manipur) of 2nd Nov 2000 when the Assam Rifles massacred 10 innocent civilians, including women and children, and brutally assaulted more than 64 civilians in the name of counter insurgency. She was arrested on the charge of attempted homicide and has been forced fed in custody. After her escape she reached Delhi on 4th October and continued her hunger strike at Janter Manter, Delhi. She was arrested by the police on 6th October 2006. AFSPA 1958: • Suspends Democratic Rights • Legitimizes State Terrorism WE DEMAND: • Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. • Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee Report on AFSPA, 1958, public. • Refrain from retaining provisions of AFSPA in any form. JOIN Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 Venue: ITO, Delhi, Date :11 October 2006, Time: 11:00 AM. Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), 9811352626 (Banerjit) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From uddipana at gmail.com Tue Oct 10 14:12:03 2006 From: uddipana at gmail.com (Uddipana Goswami) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:12:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] AFSPA In-Reply-To: <20061010065403.27918.qmail@web8401.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <20061010065403.27918.qmail@web8401.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: do you really think that the reddy committee report being made public will have any positive impact towards the repeal of the act? 'amendment' maybe, but 'repeal' no. it will just be the 'old wine in a new bottle' formula. the justice reddy committee was a government-constituted committee. whatever it has to say will not be radically different from the state's appoach to the northeast. On 10/10/06, Yengkhom Jilangamba wrote: > Dear all, > > > Miss Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike since Nov > 2006 demanding the repealing of the Armed Forces > Special Powers Act 2000. This was her immediate > response to the Malom Massacre (Manipur) of 2nd Nov > 2000 when the Assam Rifles massacred 10 innocent > civilians, including women and children, and brutally > assaulted more than 64 civilians in the name of > counter insurgency. She was arrested on the charge of > attempted homicide and has been forced fed in custody. > After her escape she reached Delhi on 4th October and > continued her hunger strike at Janter Manter, Delhi. > She was arrested by the police on 6th October 2006. > > > AFSPA 1958: > • Suspends Democratic Rights > • Legitimizes State Terrorism > > WE DEMAND: > • Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers > Act, 1958. > • Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee Report on > AFSPA, 1958, public. > • Refrain from retaining provisions of AFSPA in any > form. > > JOIN > Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 > Venue: ITO, Delhi, Date :11 October 2006, Time: 11:00 > AM. > Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), > 9811352626 (Banerjit) > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new > http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ > _________________________________________ > 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: From sridevi.panikkar at gmail.com Mon Oct 9 17:29:05 2006 From: sridevi.panikkar at gmail.com (sridevi panikkar) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:29:05 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: repeal afspa - protest on 11th october 2006 at 11am at ITO In-Reply-To: <42d681650610090456l4b36098embda03c2b004975cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <42d681650610090456l4b36098embda03c2b004975cb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <431944be0610090459h2941efeaodd5b6d4eb578bc26@mail.gmail.com> Do please send on... * **Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958* ** *A Call for Your Participation* The people's movement against Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, (AFSPA) has been continuing since the time of its very imposition in 1958. The movement has been historically fought by many struggling communities. It is important to remember that when the Act was enacted for the first time in 1958, many regions where the Act was imposed did not have a significant manifestation of armed struggle. Moreover, this Act of 1958 is the retention of a colonial law (to suppress Quit India Movement-1942) in 'post-colonial' India. The inherent colonial character of independent India is manifested in the continuance defining the frontiers as politico-military regions only. The resistance against AFSPA is imminent in the wake of prolonged experiences of involuntary disappearances, rape, killings on mere suspicion, protest self-immolation, nude protest, ceaseless hunger strikes and street protests. The rape and killing of Thangjam Monarama by paramilitary, nude protest of Manipuri women, self-immolation of Pebam Chitranjan against AFSPA and continuing hunger strike of Irom Sharmila against AFSPA since November 2000 are some of the accounts that explain the existential state of the people in Manipur and elsewhere. This shared experience of existential deprivation of many societies is well reflected in some of the Clauses of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, as the most fundamental question of Right to life itself is suspended. To cite, under the Article 4 Clause (a) of the AFSPA, the security forces can use force "even causing death" on mere grounds of suspicion and 'arrest any person without warrant' and Article 6 further implicates a total derailing of the autonomy of federal/constituting units of India as it says that without a prior approval of the Central government no commissions or prosecutions or other legal proceedings be constituted against the issues concerning the Act. Such tendencies of the Act spell out the politics of defining how specific communities are suspected historically by the Indian State which is aptly seen in the Article 4 (a) of AFSPA. The struggle against AFSPA has been successful in initiating a wider demand for repealing the Act at the mass level. Today, the presence of Irom Sharmila in Delhi (arrested by Delhi police on 6 th Oct 06) continuing her hunger strike at AIIMS and not being responded to the demand for repeal by the Government has in turn strengthened the collective struggle against the Act. It is important to remember that when the movement against the AFSPA in 2004 reached a significant height, the GOI set up the Justice Reddy Committee to review the Act. This Committee report has still not been made public by the GOI. Ironically, the leaked copy of the report has nothing substantial for the people despite its recommendation for the 'Repeal of the Act'. For, it recommends the incorporation of AFSPA in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 which will be operable all over India. The collective will always fight against any form of re-appropriation of the Act. We demand: * Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. * Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee Report on AFSPA, 1958, public. * Do not retain AFSPA in any form. ** *JOIN US* *Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 * *ITO, Delhi* *11 October 2006* *Time: 11:00 AM. (Bring your protest Banners)* Issued by: MSAD, NPMHR, LRS, SAHELI, DMMSA, JNUSU, AISA, DSU, FDI, MRFD, JAGORI, PSU, Other Media, PUDR, PUCL, PLS, HRA, HRLN, Oxfam, Amnesty I, SANGAT, CG P I, MPO, ISI-Delhi, New Democracy. KJS, SAD, KYSV, JKLF, Yuba Bharat, Justice for worker, NTUI, SPDPR. Mail: msad_manipur at yahoo.com/ adissent at yahoo.co.in Date: 08-10-2006. Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), 9811352626 (Banerjit). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20061009/e69e5904/attachment.html From cziellah at yahoo.co.in Tue Oct 10 15:24:20 2006 From: cziellah at yahoo.co.in (Yengkhom Jilangamba) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:54:20 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Reader-list] AFSPA In-Reply-To: <12d068e70610100218u1d043940w5ceef19c5f9dd010@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061010095420.39701.qmail@web8407.mail.in.yahoo.com> Thank you Depti, I fouond out the mistake after I had posted it. Solidarity Jilangamba --- Saheli Women wrote: > Dear all, > Please note a correction in the below mentioned > e-mail: > In November 2000, Sharmila was arrested for > attempted suicide and not for > attempted homicide. Last night in AIIMS, the police > have again booked her > under section 309. > Regards, > Deepti > > On 10/10/06, Yengkhom Jilangamba > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > Miss Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike since > Nov > > 2006 demanding the repealing of the Armed Forces > > Special Powers Act 2000. This was her immediate > > response to the Malom Massacre (Manipur) of 2nd > Nov > > 2000 when the Assam Rifles massacred 10 innocent > > civilians, including women and children, and > brutally > > assaulted more than 64 civilians in the name of > > counter insurgency. She was arrested on the charge > of > > attempted homicide and has been forced fed in > custody. > > After her escape she reached Delhi on 4th October > and > > continued her hunger strike at Janter Manter, > Delhi. > > She was arrested by the police on 6th October > 2006. > > > > > > AFSPA 1958: > > • Suspends Democratic Rights > > • Legitimizes State Terrorism > > > > WE DEMAND: > > • Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces > Special Powers > > Act, 1958. > > • Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee > Report on > > AFSPA, 1958, public. > > • Refrain from retaining provisions of AFSPA > in any > > form. > > > > JOIN > > Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 > > Venue: ITO, Delhi, Date :11 October 2006, Time: > 11:00 > > AM. > > Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), > > 9811352626 (Banerjit) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn > something new > > http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ > > _________________________________________ > > 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: > > __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From cziellah at yahoo.co.in Tue Oct 10 15:28:53 2006 From: cziellah at yahoo.co.in (Yengkhom Jilangamba) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:58:53 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Reader-list] AFSPA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061010095853.92716.qmail@web8406.mail.in.yahoo.com> First, the Justice Reddy Committee Report has not been officially made public. It was leaked through some media. So, there is still a need to demand that the Government should make it public. Second, there are dangerous provisions in the report. But as an initial step, the Government should make it public, so that there can atleast be a debate around the report. --- Uddipana Goswami wrote: > do you really think that the reddy committee report > being made public > will have any positive impact towards the repeal of > the act? > 'amendment' maybe, but 'repeal' no. it will just be > the 'old wine in a > new bottle' formula. > > the justice reddy committee was a > government-constituted committee. > whatever it has to say will not be radically > different from the > state's appoach to the northeast. > > On 10/10/06, Yengkhom Jilangamba > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > > > Miss Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike since > Nov > > 2006 demanding the repealing of the Armed Forces > > Special Powers Act 2000. This was her immediate > > response to the Malom Massacre (Manipur) of 2nd > Nov > > 2000 when the Assam Rifles massacred 10 innocent > > civilians, including women and children, and > brutally > > assaulted more than 64 civilians in the name of > > counter insurgency. She was arrested on the charge > of > > attempted homicide and has been forced fed in > custody. > > After her escape she reached Delhi on 4th October > and > > continued her hunger strike at Janter Manter, > Delhi. > > She was arrested by the police on 6th October > 2006. > > > > > > AFSPA 1958: > > • Suspends Democratic Rights > > • Legitimizes State Terrorism > > > > WE DEMAND: > > • Immediate Repeal of the Armed Forces > Special Powers > > Act, 1958. > > • Make the Justice Reddy Review Committee > Report on > > AFSPA, 1958, public. > > • Refrain from retaining provisions of AFSPA > in any > > form. > > > > JOIN > > Mass Demonstration against AFSPA, 1958 > > Venue: ITO, Delhi, Date :11 October 2006, Time: > 11:00 > > AM. > > Contacts: 9899925345 (Malem), 9312314339 (Rojesh), > > 9811352626 (Banerjit) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn > something new > > http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ > > _________________________________________ > > 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: > > __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From ixa10 at psu.edu Tue Oct 10 22:20:08 2006 From: ixa10 at psu.edu (Irina Aristarkhova) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:50:08 -0400 Subject: [Reader-list] Ana Politkovskaya's funeral Message-ID: <2A08F2F9-D1BF-4C1B-9D7C-5E10B6BBEFEE@psu.edu> If anyone is interested in the images from Ana Politkovskaya's funeral in Moscow today, please refer to this site: http://www.grani.ru/galleries/m.112641.html Regards! Irina From cahen.x at levels9.com Thu Oct 12 04:08:24 2006 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:38:24 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] pourinfos Newsletter / 10-11 to 10-18-2006 Message-ID: <452D7260.8040003@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualité du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wenesday October 11, 2006 to Wenesday October 18 2006 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) @ 001 (11/10/2006) Screening : Peregrination, Yanira Yariv , Brouillon d’un rêve , Wednesday October 11, Scam, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33685-tit--Peregrination-Yanira-Yariv-Brouillon -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (11/10/2006) Workshop : atelier puredata, Médias-Cité, 11-13 October, 2006, Saint-Medard en Jalles, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33695-tit-Formation-atelier-puredata-Medias-Cite- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (11/10/2006) Screening : Two short films, Wednesday October 11, 2006, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33725-tit--Deux-rendez-vous-courts-metrages- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (11/10/2006) Residence : artist at Joseph Ducuing Hospital, Toulouse, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33731-tit-Residence-d-un-artiste-plasticien-a -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (11/10/2006) Publication : They're Already Here, Dr. Roland Korg / P.A.M., éditions nieves, Zürich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-33734-tit--They-re-Already-Here-Dr-Roland-Korg- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (11/10/2006) Publication : "Yves Klein : Substitution", editions Art inprogress, Editions of contemporary art, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33735-tit--Yves-Klein-Substitution-editions -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (11/10/2006) Publication : “Numerical Arts” in the digital images, n# 118, magazine Pixel , Suresnes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33736-tit--Arts-numeriques-aux-images -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (11/10/2006) Publication : Abécédaires formels, Richard Marnier, Lendroit, Rennes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33737-tit--Abecedaires-formels-Richard-Marnier- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (11/10/2006) Publication : DOMINATIONS de Denis Robert et Philippe Pasquet, Hugo Editions, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33738-tit--DOMINATIONS-de-Denis-Robert-et-Philippe -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (11/10/2006) Publication : frieze issue 102, London, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-33739-tit--frieze-issue-102-Londres-Royaume -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (11/10/2006) Call : lÎle de PAradis(TM) paradis island, Ultralab(TM), Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33740-tit--lIle-de-PAradis-TM-Ultralab-TM- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (11/10/2006) Call : Call: ICEBOX 02 Audio/Visual Art Festival, Johannesburg, South African. http://pourinfos.org/art-33741-tit--Call-ICEBOX-02-Audio-Visual-Art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (11/10/2006) Call : young “video-cinema”, Pépinières européennes for young artists, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33742-tit--jeune-video-cinema-Pepinieres -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (11/10/2006) Call : Magmart | International Festival of VideoArt | 2nd edition, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum's, Naples, Italy. http://pourinfos.org/art-33743-tit--Magmart-International-Festival-of -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (11/10/2006) Call : Call for Entries: Impakt Festival 2007, Utrecht, Netherlands. http://pourinfos.org/art-33744-tit--Call-for-Entries-Impakt-Festival-2007- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (11/10/2006) Call : International symposium of sculptures in 2007, Cridart, center of contemporary art, Amneville les thermes, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33745-tit-Appels-a-candidature-Symposium-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (12/10/2006) Meetings : Angel's World - Girls at Work, 12-29 October 2006 at Frigos, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33609-tit--Angel-s-World-Girls-Work-du-12-au-29 -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (12/10/2006) Meetings : press conference of the 19th Instants Vidéo, Thursday October 12, 2006, Compagnie, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33674-tit--conference-de-presse-des-19es-Instants -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (12/10/2006) Exhibition : Musée Ferraille, les Requins Marteaux, Astérides, Galerie de la Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33694-tit-Expsoition-Musee-Ferraille-les-Requins -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (12/10/2006) Screening : 59 Seconds Video Festival Fall Tour Italy. http://pourinfos.org/art-33716-tit--59-Seconds-Video-Festival-Fall-Tour -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (12/10/2006) Exhibition : Réponse à Zola, Clark, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-33719-tit--Reponse-a-Zola-Clark-Montreal- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (12/10/2006) Various : libr-critique.com, Arras, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33722-tit-Divers-Nouveautes-libr-critique-com- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (13/10/2006) Meetings : Conference “Surrealism and formal constraints”, 13 October 14, 2006, Research center on surrealism (Paris III-CNRS) and the review Formules, Sorbonne, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33707-tit--Colloque-Surrealisme-et-contraintes -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (13/10/2006) Exhibition : RIDER Project 2006, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-33718-tit--RIDER-Project-2006-New-York- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (13/10/2006) Meetings : Jean Helene-Conference: Reporters in the war, on October 13, 2006, CARGO 21, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33724-tit--Jean-Helene-Conference-Reporters-dans -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (13/10/2006) Publication : bribes/ratures/fragments, LIVRAISON #7, éditions rhinoceros, Strasbourg, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33732-tit--bribes-ratures-fragments-LIVRAISON-7- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (14/10/2006) Exposition : The Pirate University & Biennial of Paris 2006 the, Biennial one of Paris 2006, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33654-tit--L-Universite-Pirate-la-Biennale-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (14/10/2006) Various : Reservations for one poetry day Songs for one evening with Pantin, Saturday October 14, Pantin, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33696-tit-Divers-Reservations-pour-Chansons-d-un -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (14/10/2006) Meetings : “L’ART EST L’ENTREPRISE”, Art and flow of the CERAP, 14 & October 21, 2006, Amphithéâtre Bachelard à la Sorbonne, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33701-tit--L-ART-EST-L-ENTREPRISE-Art-et-flux- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (14/10/2006) Exhibition : Breughel’s View, Geert De Mot, Etablissement d’en face projects, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-33720-tit--Breughel-s-View-Geert-De-Mot- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (15/10/2006) Meetings : Congress AICA 2006: Critical Evaluation Reloaded, 40th congress International of Criticisms of Art, the 15 with October 19, 2006, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33630-tit--Congres-AICA-2006-Nouveaux-modes -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (15/10/2006) Screening : "l'Index", lEmbassy, October 15, 2006, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33717-tit--l-Index-l-Ambassade-15-octobre- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 034 (15/10/2006) Meetins : presentation of the editions PPT, October 15, 2006, Espace Khiasma, Les lilas, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33729-tit--presentation-des-editions-PPT-15-octobre -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 035 (17/10/2006) Exhibition : BLUE, Ingrid Luche, Transpalette, Bourges, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33482-tit--BLUE-Ingrid-Luche-Transpalette- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 036 (17/10/2006) Performance : "L'EXP. TOT. plan of attack", Dominiq Jenvrey, Tuesday October 17, 2006, Ensci/Les Ateliers, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33595-tit--L-EXP-TOT-plan-d-attaque-Dominiq -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 037 (17/10/2006) Meetings : melody and melody function and melody function as object of analysis, conference, Tuesday 17 Wednesday October 18, Ircam, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33612-tit--melodie-et-fonction-melodique-et-fonction -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 038 (17/10/2006) Meetings : Marc Veyrat, Marc Veyrat, company I material, Tuesday October 17, Palais de Tokyo, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33628-tit--Marc-Veyrat-Soutenance-de-these-La -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 039 (17/10/2006) Meetings : “VJ culture, video art in real time? ”, Tuesday October 17, 2006, Espace Culture Multimédia Kawenga, Mopellier, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33671-tit--VJ-culture-l-art-video-en-temps-reel -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 040 (17/10/2006) Exhobotion : Anima Sonora, Winshluss et Cizo, Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-33686-tit--Anima-Sonora-Winshluss-et-Cizo-Espace -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 041 (17/10/2006) Rencontres : extensions #7, dynamiques d'écritures, Tuesday October 17, 2006, Ensci/Les Ateliers, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33723-tit--extensions-7-dynamiques-d-ecritures- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 042 (18/10/2006) Exhibition : « L’Art désemmure », Univer, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33650-tit--L-Art-desemmure-Des-artistes-se -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 043 (18/10/2006) Meetingss : Reality with the fiction. The human figure represented, Conference, Wednesday October 18, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33708-tit--Du-reel-a-la-fiction-La-figure-humaine -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 044 (18/10/2006) Meetings : madness, wisdom and reject, Ecrans Philosophiques, mercredi 18 octobre 2006, Georges-Méliès movie theater, Montreuil, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-33726-tit--La-folie-la-sagesse-et-le-rebut-Ecrans -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 045 (18/10/2006) Displaying works of art. Some remarks about exhibition design. Jérôme Glicenstein http://pourinfos.org/art-33648-tit-Displaying-works-of-art-Some-remarks-about-exhibition-design- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From quraishy at sarai.net Thu Oct 12 10:20:13 2006 From: quraishy at sarai.net (Moslem Ali Quraishy) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:50:13 +0200 Subject: [Reader-list] Anand Patwardhan's War and Peace on DD National on Sunday morning 10.30, 15th October Message-ID: Press Release Anand Patwardhan's War and Peace on DD National on Sunday morning 10.30, 15th October It never rains, it pours! Fast on the heels of Father, Son and Holy War \ which Doordarshan (DD) telecast last Sunday morning, DD National is set to \ telecast Anand's anti-nuclear documentary War and Peace on Sunday, 15th \ October at 10.30 AM While Father, Son and Holy War took 11 years in court, War and Peace has \ had its own share of legal and extra legal battles. A chronology