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Greetings! With May 2013 we re-start our regular sharing of selected information and communication resources available at the Kriti team's Docushop. These are available on contribution and can be posted to you wherever you are in India or abroad. Postage charges will apply in addition. Payments will be possible through e-transfers to start with or you can use snail mail too!
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Documentary Films
Whispers in the Night
By Sushmit Ghosh & Rinku Thomas/ Kriti Team Productions (16 min, Hindi, Bengali (with English Subtitles)/ DVD), 2011
Contribution: Rs. 250/-
By Anandi (34 min, Gujarati, DVD)
Contribution:
Rs. 250/-
Those women who used to work and earn daily
wage have now started their own business unit and have transformed themselves
from labourers into proprietors. Their story is depicted in this documentary
film.
Rikshawala
By Abhishek
Kukreja (18 min, Hind, English subtitled, DVD), 2012
Contribution: Rs. 250/-
Peddling his way in a mad city rush, he not only gets food
for his body, but also discovers something for his soul. “Rikshawala” is
a self - narrated story of transformation. It exemplifies that in the
university called ‘Life’, difficulty is perhaps the harshest teacher, but has
most virtuous lessons to impart. As we watch him taking his trips, let’s hope
we find inspiration in his journey.
The Lijjat
Sisterhood
By Kadhambari
Chintamani @ Ajit Oomen, PSBT (30 min, English, DVD), 2003
Contribution: Individual Rs. 400/- Institutional
Rs. 700/-
The film documents
the success story of a three hundred crore women's cooperative-the Shri Mahila
Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad - through the eyes of four key protagonists, their
colleagues and families and explores what it means to be part of this
sisterhood.
Goddess of Food:
Annapurna
By Paromita Vohra (25 min, English subtitled, DVD), 1995
Contribution: Rs. 500/-
Started in 1975 by 14 khanawalwalis – women who
prepared meals for migrant workers, thus earning the name food-lady – the
organization has today swelled to a membership of 150,000 and has it’s own
credit co-operative bank, short-stay home and catering centre.
The film observes the everyday life
of these women and intertwines it with the story of how the organization grew.
An exploration of the politics and economics of women’s work, the film is a
tribute to the fearless women who started Annapurna, and the feisty women who
carry it on. The film is part of an international series on women’s initiatives
entitled Half the Sky : Women of the World, made for the Beijing
conference, in 1995. It has been telecast in 11 countries.
Health Matters
By Shikha Jhingan
(60 min, Hindi, Marathi/English with English Subtitles, DVD), 2005
Contribution: Rs. 750/-
Economic reforms since the 90s have led to unprecedented
changes in the Indian health care system. Health Matters takes a panoramic look
at health care in India through the everyday experiences of patients in both
public and private hospitals, covering a range of rural and urban locations.
Stories of a retired mill worker, a domestic help, a daily wage labourer and
some women bare foot doctors are women together with fictional explorations,
prosthetic bodies and narrative text. As market forces start driving the
‘health industry’, words like healing and accountability acquire new meanings…
A Drop of Sunshine
By Aparna Sanyal,
PSBT (35 min, English, DVD), 2011
Contribution: Individual Rs. 400/- Institutional
Rs. 700/-
Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but conjures up multiple
connotations - Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A
lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. The
Film takes us through the story of Reshma Valliappan, a 30-year old Indian
woman, and charts out her journey of eventual triumph over her condition. It
takes a controversial and contrarian view towards recovery from Schizophrenia,
proposing that the only treatment method that can work in the condition is one
where the so-called ‘patient’ is encouraged and empowered to become an equal
partner in the process of healing.
Adha Asmaan
By Samina Mishra (32 min, English Subtitled, DVD),1996
Contribution: Individual Rs. 400/- Institutional
Rs. 700/-
Heera,
Deepa and Susheela work the fields, cut grass, tend cattle, and care for their
families. They contribute as much as men to sustenance of their families and
the economy of their villages. But their labour is rarely recognised as work.
The reason is as inescapable as it is simple – they are women. And so, they
never stop working even when they are sick, and never have their sickness taken
care of till the work begins to suffer.
Women’s
health in India continues to be seen in the restricted light of pregnancy and
motherhood so that health initiatives for women focus mainly on family planning
and maternal health. Shot in Almora and Sitapur districts in Uttar Pradesh,
this is a film about the attitudes that deny women their share of healthcare.
BOOKS
Summaries
of International Labour Standards: Second edition, updated in 1990
By International Labour Office,
Geneva, published 1991
Access Contribution: Rs. 20/-
The significance of these international labour standards is
in their practical effect. A country that has ratified a Convention must report
regularly on its application in law and in practice. Employers’ and workers’
organization have the right to provide information as well.
The summaries in the book, grouped by subject, reflect a
selection of international labour Conventions, accompanied in some cases by
extremely succinct overviews of selected recommendations; their purpose in the
first instance, is to help employers’ and workers’ organization to provide
information to their members in a form which is as simple and clear as
possible.
HIV/AIDS and
labour rights: a study of vulnerability of the workers in Wazirpur industrial
area delhi.
By Richa Singh and Nasir Ateeq, published 1999
Access Contribution: Rs. 20/-
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic is a new, but complex phenomenon,
challenging accepted ways of understanding health and human development in our
societies. The response to it can only be holistic as well as urgent.
Accordingly to UNAIDS, 6 million have died of AIDS worldwide and 30 million are
living with HIV. The number is growing every minute. In 1977 alone in 1977 alone it increased by
16,000 people per day. Unfortunately, a well accepted estimate of HIV
prevalence in India does not exist. According to the South East Asia regional
office, World Health Organization in March 1997 there were 2.5 million HIV
positive persons in India. NACO, at the end of October 1998 reported 79,574 HIV
positive persons among 3.35 millions people screened.
Child Labour –
Hindi (set of 7)
By ILO, Published 1994
Access Contribution: Rs. 20/-
This is a
training module on child labour in Hindi.
Readings on
Women Workers in India: Selected Annotations
By Preeti Bhat (Ed.), Published 1999
Access Contribution: Rs. 75/-
This publication begins with a brief conceptual
and methodological introduction, and includes readings classified under nine
subject areas concerning women workers. The bibliography includes books,
journal articles, reports and other materials, which have been collected from
primary and secondary sources. The readings are selected by subject area, and
they offer a range of material on the theme of women and work. The final
section provides a list of useful reference sources including some existing
bibliographies on women workers’ issues.
Limited Options: Women Workers in
Rural India
By A.V. Jose (Ed.), Published 1989
Access Contribution: 20/-
The studies
included in this volume mark the completion of the ARTEP research project
titled ‘Labour Force Participation of Women in India’. The studies on
completion were also taken up for discussion at the “South Asia Regional
Consultants Workshop on Women in the Labour Force” organized under the Asian
HRD Network Project of the ARTEP in New Delhi during 1-2 September 1988.
Women Workers’ Rights: Modular
Training Package
By International Labour Office (ILO), Published 1994
Access Contribution: Rs.30/-
A training package and the information kit on women workers
rights that can be used internationally.
Freedom of the Press
By Shobha Desai and Colin Consalves,
Published 1989
Contribution: Rs. 20/-
Freedom of the Press authored by
Shobha Desai and Colin Gonsalves is published as the 19th booklet
under the auspices of the C. G. Shah Memorial Trust. It is being published in
association with the Bombay Union of Journalists.
Apart from the all
the above Acts, all labour laws apply to
True Freedom of information required
three conditions: The opportunity to read and watch anytime available a diversity of sources from which
to choose and media systems that provided access for those who wish to reach
their follow citizens. While the first condition is technically met in our
country, the scope of the other criteria is rather narrow-given the economic
and politically system we are living in.
Buddha or Karl Marx
By B.K. Ambedkar, Published 1987
Contribution: Rs. 20/-
A comparison between Karl Marx and
Buddha may be regarded as a joke. There need be no surprise in this. Marx and
Budda are divided by 2381 years. Buddha was born in 563 BC and Karl Marx in
1818 AD Karl Marx is supposed to be the architect of a new ideology-polity a
new Economic system. The Buddha on the other hand is believed to be no more
than the founder of a religion, which has no relation to politics or economics.
The heading of this essay “Buddha or Karl Marx: which suggests either a
comparison or a contrast between two such personalities divided by such a
lengthy span of time and occupied with different fields of thought is sure to
sound odd.
Karl Marx: Life of
a Revolutionary
By Alex Callinicos, Published 2007
Contribution: Rs. 20/-
Karl Marx was born on 5th
May 1818 in Trier, an ancient cathedral town in the German Rhineland. Both his
parents were Jesish, the descendants of many generations of rabbis; his family
name had been Mordechai, then markus, before Marx. Marx’s father, Heinrich,
however, had converted to Lutheran Christianity in 1817, in order to evade a
decree excluding Jews from public office. The Rhineland, although annexed by
the reactionary Prussian monarchy in 1815, remained the most economically and
politically advanced part of Germany, heavily influenced by the French
Revolution.
The Dalit
Liberation Movement in Colonial Period
By Bharat Patankar & Gall Omvedi,
Published 2007
Contribution: Rs. 20/-
First published in February 1979. This is the first part of a
path breaking article on the Dalit Movement in the mainstream media. It was
path breaking because mainstream discourse had until then consistently denied
or tried to studiously ignore the existence of the Dalit movement and its vital
role in Indian politics before independence and later-Round Table India. The paper attempts to survey the history of dalit struggles in
relation to the national movement and the communist movement, and to bring to
the fore the important role the dalit movement has played in the democratic
movement of the country and is going to play in the new democratic struggles in
the future
Claiming Dignity: Reproductive Rights & The
Law
By Anubha Rastogi, Published 2009
Contribution: 350/-
This book introduced
the understanding of reproductive rights etc.
The main three parts of this book: - Part-I. Introduction: Understanding
and contextualizing Reproductive Rights: Identifying Reproductive Rights within
the Indian Legal System. Part-II Identifying Specific Issues under the broader
concern of reproductive rights and the judicial response on the same and
Part-III Text of Cases.
We and Our
Fertility: The Politics of Technological Intervention
By Chayanika,
Swatija, Kamaxi, Published 1999
Contribution: Rs. 75/-
We and Our Fertility is about reproduction and the range of
technological interventions into the reproductive processes. While the emphasis
is on information about various techniques, for both contraception and assisted
reproduction, this book is also about the making and breaking of values
circumscribing their development and uses.
We and Our Fertility includes the experiences of many women
who have used these technologies and has evolved through discussion with
several women and groups who are struggling against the technological violence
unleashed on women’s fertility even as they are initiating efforts to realize
their dreams of alternative to these violence methods. This book is written
from a perspective that reflects their experience and does not separate
technical interventions from the experiences they leave behind.
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