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Call for Papers

Liberty, Art & Culture Seminar

Mumbai: November 24-27, 2005

 

Speaker

Topic

Swati Chawla, Centre for Civil Society Dimensions of Liberty
Mohit Satyanand (Consultant) Games People Play
Culture, Diversity & Democracy
Anjali Monteiro & KP Jayasankar (Unit of Media & Communications, TISS) Image Making: Critical Approaches
Sidharth Bhatia Paper Tigers: How the Print Beast has Evolved
Gautam Bastian (LSS Graduate 2001) IPR & Freedom of Expression
Raza Haider (SIKHSA) Gab & The Gag: The Politics of Muffled Characters

Dr. Parth J. Shah, Centre for Civil Society

Economic Freedom: The Forgotten Human Right
Do We Deserve the Government We Get?

Researching Reality Field Exercise

Participants conducted hands on research on the following issues:
- Roadside vendors
- Cycle rickshaw pullers 
- Auto rickshaw drivers
- Provision and quality of water and school education in the unauthorised colony of Sangam Vihar

Working Groups

What is Seen and What is Unseen

Participants were asked to prepare a role play.  The topic:  You are a reporter who has been assigned to cover the opening of a private school in a village. 

Three groups presented the role play and brought out various issues related to private schools, education quality, stereotypes and politics in education through this creative medium.

Documentary Screenings

License Permit Raj: A View from Below
Greed
Sex, Drugs & Consenting Adults