Kriti Team

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2012-01-24T06:54:00.000-08:00

Connect with Kriti team: ACCESS OUR SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKING RESOURCES

dear friends

we at the kriti team are looking forward to sharing our skills, our information and communication resources and our products with YOU and your organisations.

we have been offering these different services and resources for over 12 years now, some paid and a lot unpaid and non-funded as a principle of organisation building.

today, we have a large canvas of experience, output and learning that we hope to offer many more people and organisations interested in social, environmental and rights based change.

some of you know about our work fully or in parts, some have worked with and supported us and some may have noticed us missing in action for a few months...we are working on this in 2012, so here is a quick update.

presenting below, a glimpse of what we offer...we hope to hear from and work with you. we are based in New Delhi but can work across India and the world.

Wishing you insight, knowledge, creation and space for making social change a reality! we hope to hear from you soon!

Aanchal Kapur

Kriti Founder Leader

ACCESS OUR EXPERTISE & SKILLS
TAP OUR SKILLS - Research, Training, Development Communication....for those looking for a team of skilled people to take on documentation, training and evaluation, development design & communication, rapporteuring, copywriting/ editing, translations and printing for your organisation, Kriti team is the one-stop place to reach. Write to us with your requirement and we will respond to service your need, along with the profile of our work in these areas, across development, environment and human rights issues.

FILM MAKING - we treat documentary films as a piece of research for action and change in attitudes and behaviours. if you are looking for a film to be made on an issue, a programme/ activity or your organisation, get in touch with us!

MEDIA OUTREACH - interested in getting your event/s the required publicity and media coverage in the city of Delhi or other parts of India...we can help you through our network of journalists and feature writers as well as contacts in the audio-visual and print media.

EVENTS ORGANISING - wanting to celebrate socially and environmentally relevant days, through performing and visual arts presentations? do it with us and our pool of creative, talented and professional artists...lets do something meaningful and exciting together...something that can change the way we think and act on issues of concern!

CONFERENCE STATIONARY - if you are looking for creatively designed and useful conference and workshop stationary that suits your budget needs, Kriti team is the place to come...make a selection from available samples and designs or ask us to produce something just for you!

ACCESS OUR RESOURCES & SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY INITIATIVESKRITI FILM CLUB - for those interested in watching a documentary at the Kriti Film Club, look out for the calender of not seen films soon! for those of you interested screening a documentary film at the Kriti Film Club, send us an email with the details and we will schedule a screening soon! we also offer to curate film festivals for you!

OUR DIARY - documenting people's movements around human rights. for those of you wanting a copy of Our Diary 2012, its now available!

PAPER RECYCLING - if you are looking at supporting a community women run paper recycling unit initiated by us, make a small or big donation or give us a big order of handmade paper stationary! do you want us to conduct a workshop to 'create an eco-friendly workplace', to recycle waste paper and pick up handmade stationary for your personal and official use, then contact us.

KRITI INFORMATION PLACE - for those of you keen to access a development, environment, human rights, women, children, labour, health or other book from activist and civil society organisations across India,visit the Kriti Information Place to reference, read, photocopy, buy what fancies your need or attention!

KRITI DOCUSHOP - for those keen to buy a documentary film or some socially relevant music, a book or a poster; or any other print based development resource, be surprised at what you'll find at the Kriti Docushop!

GESTURES STALL - for those of you who love to wear and use eco friendly, community made products, the Gestures stall by Kriti team is the place to shop galore. More details on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gestures-by-KRITI-TEAM-a-community-enterprise/110773145630956

BECOME A KRITIAN
VOLUNTEER WITH US - Time to spare and share your interests and skills to make our work reach more and more people, to make the necessary impact for social change, to learn and network to build your work experience..Kriti team is the place to start!

SUPPORT US - If you are willing to become a 'Kriti sustainabler', commit to make a donation to support our work as a self-income generating organisation. You can make a monthly or annual donation and we would be happy to acknowledge your contribution publicly. Write a cheque in the name of 'Kriti team' and post it to us or make a bank transfer to our account (ask for details please)

Consider us as a potential partner for funding on a particular theme or programme? We would be happy to hear from you!

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Order your copy of OUR DIARY 2012

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dear friends

greetings from the kriti team and advances wishes for the new year.

we hope 2011 is ending well for you and the new year will usher in greater energies for struggle and movements for change and challenges before us.

in continuity with our solidarity and commitment to the several people's movements in india and abroad, we are bringing out the 13th edition of OUR DIARY, as a movement resource that we can carry with our journies for protest and resistance. this year's diary includes movement features on 'save sharmila solidarity campaign' by students, manisha kaushik and devika mittal; uid update by usha ramanathan; an interesting piece by amit sengupta; on using songs in the women's movement by kamla bhasin; a feature by priyanka borpujari titled 'jinhe naaz hai is hind par vo kaha hai'; some songs, poems and some words of wisdom; bookscape and filmscape on recent movement books and documentaries; a movement map of india and contact info on groups....images and space for daily and monthly planning and a bookmark to go along!

we hope that those of you who still use diaries for your days and dates of protest, work and life or for your notes will order a copy.

in the spirit of struggles for rights

Kriti team

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Our Diary 2012

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Uniting Hearts and Minds..a festival on mental health 10-11 October 2011

2011-10-09T10:48:00.000-07:00

The Kriti team is pleased to invite you for...

UNITING HEARTS AND MINDS

A Festival of Creative Expressions on Mental Health

National Mental Health Programme
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Organised by the Public Health Foundation of India

Monday-Tuesday, 10-11 October 2011

Main Auditorium, India International Centre

Lodi Estate, New Delhi

Programme Schedule

Monday, 10^th October 2011

9:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m Registration and Tea

BREAKING THE SILENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH

10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m INAUGURATION

Welcome
Ms. Sujaya Krishnan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Mental Health: A Universal Public Health Issue
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

Empowered Living: The Power of Awareness on Mental Health
Dr. Nimesh Desai, Director, Institute of Health Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi

Sitaron se aage: My Views on Mental Health
Mr. Akhileshwar Sahay, Managing Trustee & Principal Instigator, Whole Mind India

Inaugural Address
Mr. Keshav Desiraju, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

11:00 a.m – 11:10 a.m CREATIVE SHOWCASE
Straight from the Heart
Poetry reading by students from Gargi College, University of Delhi

UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH

11:15 a.m- 12:00 noon FILM SCREENING:
Exploring Madness (19 mins): A Film by Dr Parvez Imam

Open Forum
Moderator: Dr. Parvez Imam, Film maker

12:00 noon -1:00 pm CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Soch (15 mins)

Mask puppet play by students from the Department of Development Communication & Extension, Lady Irwin College

Dialogues of the Inside and the Outside (10 mins)
Dance- choreography by Gilles Chuyen

Open Forum
Moderator: Dr Anjali Capila, Associate Professor, Department of Development Communication & Extension, Lady Irwin College

1:00 p.m -2:00 p.m LUNCH-TIME FILM SCREENING
A Drop of Sunshine (30 mins): A film by Aparna Sanyal
Open Forum
Moderators: Aparna Sanyal and Reshma Valliapan

2:00 p.m - 4:15 p.m FILM SCREENING

15 Park Avenue by Aparna Sen (tbc)

Introduction by Anu Singh, caring for a person living with mental illness

4:15 p.m- 5:00 p.m CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Mere Umar Ke Naujawano (15 mins)
A play by the students of AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia University

Aye Zindagi Gale Laga Le (15 mins)
Kathak and dance arrangement by Kilkari Rainbow Home (Kashmere Gate) as part of the Dil Se Campaign, Music Basti

Open Forum
Moderator: Wing Commander Kapil Shukla, caring for a person living with mental illness

Tuesday, 11^th October 2011

9:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m Tea

Paristhitiyaan, Manasthitiyaan: Anoushka ki Kahani,
Kathapeti ki Zubaani
Story-telling by students of Department of Development Communication & Extension, Lady Irwin College

FROM STIGMA TO INCLUSION: IT’S ABOUT ALL OF US, TOGETHER

10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m Welcome and Introduction

FILM SCREENING
Into the Abyss (30 mins): A Film by Ms. Vandana Kohli

Open Forum
Moderator: Ms. Vandana Kohli, Film maker

11:00 a.m- 12:30p.m. CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Kash-me-Kash (15 mins)
Theatrical performance by the students of Hindu College, University of Delhi

Inside my mind (22 mins)
Dramatization using Bunraku, a puppetry technique

Tamana (5 mins)
Action song

Open Forum
Moderator: Dr Jitender Nagpal, Consultant Psychiatrist, VIMHANS and National Convenor-Child Adolescent Mental Health Section – IAPP

12:30 p.m. -2:00 p.m LUNCH-TIME SCREENINGS

Ankuran (5 mins)

Mann ki Baat, showreel of programme on Doordarshan

  Story of Shriy, audio programme by Parul Goswami, students of
                                                           AJKMCRC (20 mins)

                                                Open Forum
                                                Moderator: Dr Avdesh Sharma, Psychiatrist and Creator/Director
                                                of Mann ki Baat

MENTAL HEALTH AND ITS PORTRAYAL IN POPULAR MEDIA

2:00 p.m -3:30 p.m PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderator: Mr. Pankaj Pachauri, Senior Editor, NDTV India

Screening of film clippings (30 mins)

Dr Sudhir Khandelwal, Head , Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Dr Shayama Chona, President, Tamana

Ms. Prateeksha Sharma, Executive Director, Hansadhwani Foundation

Dr. Harbeen Arora, Theatre person and CEO, Creative Living Foundation

3:30 p.m-4:00 p.m THE WAY FORWARD

4:00 p.m– 5.00 p.m MUSIC CONCERT

Soulful renditions
Kavya and Shantanu

Sufiana Qawwali
Nizami Brothers (Ghulam Sabir Nizami Ghluma Waris Nizami)

Vote of thanks
Ms. Gayatri Misra, Director, National Mental Health Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

MindReels...film screenings on Mental Health: October 2011

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Kriti Film Club

in collaboration with

India Habitat Centre

invites you for

MindReels…films on mental health

: an event to mark the World Mental Health Week

Tuesday, October 3^rd, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Opening of MindReels…films on mental health

(@ Stein Auditorium)

There Is Something In The Air

Iram Gurfam |28 mins | Hindustani with English subtitles

This documentary is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in north India.The film invites the viewer to a world of dream and fantasy. Fear and desire is experienced through dreams and ‘afflictions of air’. The shrine is a space where performance becomes the only rule of engagement, and one can begin to think of the possibilities that ‘insanity’ produces.

(Film maker will be present)

Eyes of Stone

Nilita Vachani | 90mins | Mewari and Hindi with English subtitles |1990

A film about rural women in Bhilwara, Rajasthan and their rituals of possession and exorcism: expressions of faith, rebellion and healing that thrive within the confines of a stringent patriarchal order. The film is a deep and unsettling exploration of one case of possession, which taken to its logical conclusion, becomes an eloquent testimony to the strengths and sadness and indeed the subversions in women’s lives.

Saturday, October 8^th, 2011: 6.30 – 8.30 pm

(@ Gulmohar Hall)

Recognising Mental Illness…

Avinash Grows Up

Kareem Khan| 5 mins

A very short message on mental illness.

Exploring Madness

Dr Pervez Imam| 19 mins| Hindi with English Subtitles

Mental illnesses are one of the least understood problems in India. Myths and stigma add to the problems of people suffering from such illnesses. On the other hand there are issues of a lack of infrastructure to treat mental illnesses properly. This film brings together a variety of such issues related to mental illness in the Indian society. The film has six parts, each dealing with a different issue, ranging from people’s perceptions of mental illness to debates among professionals and from the problems of women languishing in mental hospitals to experiences of those who have recovered.

(Film maker will be present)

World Mental Health Week: Discussions and experience sharing with experts and film makers

Sunday, October 9^th, 2011: 6.30 – 8.30 pm

(@ Gulmohar Hall)

Understanding Schizophrenia...

The Unreal Reality

Syed Amjad Ali | 16 mins| English

The film is an engaging and informative documentary that captures and demonstrates the difficulties related to that is specific to a mental illness called Schizophrenia about the illness, and is meant to create awareness about it in the society and help people understand the devastating nature of the illness.

A Drop of Sunshine

Aparna Sanyal | 35 min| English

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.

October 10^th, 2011: 6.30 – 8.30 pm

(@ Amaltas Basement Theatre)

In and Out of Depression…

Into the Abyss

Vandana Kohli | 30 mins| English

A look at the growing incidence of depression in Delhi including dramatised sequences of a 24 year old management executive's state of mind, even as the disorder begins to set in.

A Certain Liberation

Yasmine Kabir|38 mins |English (subtitled) |2003|Bangladesh

Gurudasi Mondol gave herself up to madness in 1971, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh, as she watched her entire family being killed by the collaborators of the occupying forces.

Thirty years later, Gurudasi continues to roam the streets of Kopilmoni, a small-town in rural Bangladesh, in quest of all she has lost; snatching at will from strangers and breaking into spaces normally reserved for men. In her madness, she has found a strategy for survival.

In Kopilmoni, Gurudasi has attained near legendary status. Through her indomitable presence, she has kept alive the spirit of the Liberation War.

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Call for contributions: Uniting Hearts and Minds - a festival on 10-11 Oct 2011

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Sixth Annual Peace Day Festival 20-21 Sept 2011

2011-09-19T20:19:00.000-07:00

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Sixth Annual Peace Day Festival

2011-09-16T03:23:00.000-07:00

Kriti Team

invites you for the

SIXTHANNUAL PEACE DAY FESTIVAL:

Intepretationsof Peace and Conflict

co-organisers: Sangat, Peace and PWAG

2O-21September 2011

IndiaHabitat Centre, Lodi Road
New Delhi

Tuesday, 20^thSeptember, 7 - 9.30 pm:

PeaceReels and Talk Show

Dreaming Taj Mahal and other Reels from the field by Nirmal Chander andSurya Shankar Dash…discussions with film makers and audience
Student talk show around the Save Irom Sharmila Campiagn AFSPA
Interactive Installation by Surya Shankar Dash

@Amaltas(Basement Theatre), India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Wednesday, 21st September, 7 - 9.00 pm: International Peace Day celebrations

Rhythmsof Peace: a peace concert

Vidya Shah: a classicalperformance of social and political works by musicians and poets whohave transcended many borders, music that reaches out in the oneness ofmessages of peace, dignity and love.

Pervez Imam: Songs of People -acoustic folk rock performance and audience participation

@ Stein Auditorium,India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi

On the sidelines:
...no women:no peace exhibit - implement UN Security Council resolution 1325
...support peaceful livelihoods

OPEN FOR ALL.

For further details call, writeor visit our blog:

Kriti team

011-26033088/26027845

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Venue support: Habitat World

Acknowledment: Film makers, Students andMusicians for sharing their art in this festival.

KRITI FILM CLUB celebrates environment day month

2011-06-06T18:52:00.001-07:00

After the Ecofestival 2011, we continue to make ecofootprints, now in Gurgaon with a series of ecoReels at Epicentre in Gurgaon...

Dates: June 7, 14, 20

Address: Apparel House, Sector 44, Gurgaon

Open for all!

Shows

June 7              7:30pm|Global Warming - A Fable From The Himalayas (Eng/2007/8mins) Dir.Nitin Das. Shot near Tibet, a magical tale about a young boy close who finds the solution to Global Warming from a monk in the mountains. The film was made possible by Spitiecosphere, an NGO based out of Spiti, whose main objective is to preserve the culture of Spiti and implement sustainable development without harming the ecology. It aims at spreading awareness as to how Global warming is impacting the fragile ecosystems. Collab: Kriti Film Club

The Jungle Gang Meets The Rhino (Eng/2010/16mins) Dir.Krishnendu Bose. The first wildlife Indian film made exclusively for children, aims to expose our younger audience to the diverse wild flora and fauna of India and encourage them to actively participate in wildlife conservation. The film has three animated wild animal characters--Bar Headed Geese, Slender Loris and a Black Buck--three animals, which bring the flavour of three different habitats of India. They travel together to the Kaziranga National Park to know more about the Great Indian Rhinoceros, its habitat, threats and the conservation efforts which have saved it from extinction. Collab: Kriti Film Club

A Dam Old Story (Hindi/2011/26mins) Dir.Tarini Manchanda. 4711 big dams are built and 390 are under construction in growing India, while more than 40 million people have been displaced by such development. In this documentary, discover the treasures of a Southern Himachal Pradesh lifestyle, a place where the energy of flowing water is used to grind wheat and economic relations are based on trust.
A dam is planned in the Sirmour District of Himachal Pradesh, to supply drinking water to Delhi. Who wants the dam? The film tells a story through conversations with Sirmouris, and explores the politics of dam construction. Collab: Kriti Film Club

June 14                       7:30pm|Mean Sea Level (English/2011/58mins) Dir. Mean Sea Level takes us through the story of the inhabitants of the islands of Ghoramara and Sagar, at the southern tip of the Indo-Gangetic Delta. Almost 7000 inhabitants have been forced to leave Ghoramara in the last 30 years, as the island has become half in size. The biggest island, Sagar which hosted refugees from other islands all these years is witnessing massive erosion now. 70000 people in the 9 sea-facing islands are at the edge of losing land in next 15 years. For these people climate change is real.
Rising Sea level, 2mm a year is resulting in daily insecurity for home and livelihoods. Sheikh Lalmohan who lost his home in an island Lohachara 18 years ago, and lives in a refugee camp in Sagar. While Kavita Shil keeps on moving her house inside island in Ghoramara as the water eats up her house. Experience this new breed of climate refugees.

June 20                        7:30pm|The Miracle Water Village (English/2010/12mins) Dirs.Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh. An inspirational story of an impoverished farming community in India that reversed its fortunes through its visionary model of water management. Lying in one of the worst drought-prone regions of India, the village of Hiware Bazar battled many decades of sparse rain and failed crops. However, 20 years ago, the entire village came together to script a silent revolution by designing a rainwater-harvesting model that saved every drop of the scanty rain they received. Today, the village is literally an oasis in the middle of the desert, boasting of bumper harvests, dairy co-operatives, millionaire families and visionary farmers.

The Groundwater Up Project (Eng/Hindi/2010/36mins) Dir.Tarini Manchanda, Katie Gillett, and Moriah Mason Meet people who are trying to rejuvenate Delhi’s baolis (step wells) and lakes, and school kids who are harvesting rain water. Attend a river clean up event with music and dancing. Listen to stories of struggle and Satyagraha.

The film doesn’t solve Delhi’s “water crises”, but it explores current solutions like dams and sewage treatment plants. It discovers ideas in unexpected places and highlights people pursuing creative solutions.

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make your ecofootprint on 4-5 june at the EcoFestival 2011

2011-06-03T14:27:00.000-07:00

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EcoFestival 2011: Programme Schedule

2011-05-28T00:30:00.000-07:00

KRITI Team

invites you to its 3^rd Annual

EcoFestival 2011

Dates and Timings:

4-5 June 2011 (Sat-Sun)

11 am to 9.00 pm

Venue:

Alliance Française, 72, Lodi Estate

New Delhi 110003 (nearest metro is Khan Market)

Entry:

Open to all

5^th June is World Environment Day, with the theme of Forest: Nature works for you. Come and make ecofootprints on earth! In its third year, the Eco Festival conceptualized and organized by the Kriti team, aims at creating greater awareness, interest and actions to save the environment and ecosystem, making efforts at mitigating climate change.

Programme schedule

Saturday, 4^th June 2011

11 am Opening of the EcoFestival

Sowing plants…to nurture and protect! Opening of the Kriti EcoFestival with EcoHaat, EcoCafe, EcoNursery, EcoExhibition cum Competition entries display…

11.15 – 1 pm EcoThematic Workshops (parallel) – To learn and create

ET Workshop 1 - Water, at the core of life: Create your own water filter

Come and learn about water and water pollution, understand its cycle of life and the way to save it. In association with Veolia Water (India), we will help you understand the mechanism of clearing water by making your own water filter! Enjoy drinking and using clean water!

ET Workshop 2 - Conserving Nature and the Ecosystems

Come and play games in teams to learn about how nature takes care of us every day and why we urgently need to protect it! Nature provides us with water, food, clean air, medicines, beautiful landscapes and much more. In association with GIST, we offer you to experience why we should respect and value nature for everything it gives to us for free.

1 – 2.30 pm Eat, shop, relax, interact with Kriti team @ the EcoCafe and EcoHaat

2.30 – 4.30 pm EcoArt and EcoDance workshops (parallel) – To feel and connect

EcoArt Workshop 1 – Don’t Throw, REUSE & RECYCLE : Make ‘news’paper’ and ‘waste paper’ bags

“A bag I get, a bag I discard. Paper I use….some, paper I discard….lots. Creativity I am born with, some I use Most, unfortunately, I….discard.”

So, here in this workshop, combine all! And experiment, just for yourself and for this amazing universe…Using the amazing tools of theatre, breath, visualization and with the skills of cutting and colouring to create!

There are no rights or wrongs in this workshop! We invite you to come purely as you were born…as a creative being! There are no rights or wrongs in this workshop! We invite you to come purely as you were born…as a creative being! (facilitated by Mrinalini Chawla and Kriti team volunteers)

EcoDance Workshop 1 – FREE…

‘Free’ is a consistent state of nature. What is it like to be free consistently, to move in spirals, to be spontaneous and in the flow? This workshop is an exploration of nature both, within and around us. To discover the breath, alignment and find a parallel truism of living with nature – where there are polarities and each has a natural beginning and a natural ending. (facilitated by Shilpika Bordoloi and Kriti team volunteers)

5.00 – 6.00 pm EcoThematic Workshops (repeats) – To learn and create

ET Workshop 1 - Water, at the core of life: Create your own water filter

ET Workshop 2 - Conserving Nature and the Ecosystems

Come and play games in teams to learn about how nature takes care of us every day and why we urgently need to protect it! Nature provides us with water, food, clean air, medicines, beautiful landscapes and much more 24x7. In association with GIST, we offer you to experience why we should respect and value nature for everything it gives to us for free.

6.00 – 7.30 pm EcoDance Workshop 2 - Rhythms of Nature

‘Rhythms of Nature’ will explore movement possibilities aligning with our natural environment and look at developing some interesting patterns. Every participant will get a chance to explore movement, rhythm and space through this workshop. Based upon contemporary and improvisational techniques, this workshop is open to all who wish to work freely with their bodies. (facilitated by Himani Khurana and Kriti team volunteers)

7.00 – 8.00 pm Grab a bite @the ecoCafe, explore the ecoHaat, interact with the Kriti team

Sunday, 5^th June 2011

11 – 11.45 am Making YOUR ecofootprints on World Environment Day

v Welcome by Kriti team

v Street Play, Music and Dance on Composting & Environment by young people (Manzil group)

12 – 1.30 pm EcoArt Workshops (parallel) – To feel and connect

EcoArt Workshop 2 – ‘Post a card or letter’…Make magic with paper envelopes, bags and more…with music and movement to go along.

(facilitated by Mrinalini Chawla and Kriti team volunteers)

EcoArt Workshop 3 – ‘Best out of waste’…bring any paper, tetra pack or plastic waste and convert it into your own creation!

(facilitated by Kritian Seema Rajput and other volunteers)

1.30 – 2.30 pm Eat, shop, relax, interact with Kriti team @ the EcoCafe and EcoHaat

2.30 – 4.30 pm EcoArt and EcoTheatre workshops (parallel)

EcoArt Workshop 4 – ‘Frame a photo’…make your own handmade, recycled paper products

This workshop will give you a variety of handmade recycled paper to make your own photoframes, wall hangings or stationary you can use. (facilitated by the Kriti EcoPapers unit team from Dehradun)

EcoTheatre Workshop – Come and experience theatre, play reading and poetry around an environmental theme; create a performance for the evening programme at the festival. (facilitated by V. Shruti Devi)

3.30 – 5.30 pm EcoReels…Films on environment, wild life, water, forests and climate change for children and adults (facilitated by Kriti Film Club)

4.30 – 6 pm EcoMusic and EcoArt workshops (parallel)

EcoMusic workshop: Create your own ecoInstruments

(facilitated by Music Basti)

EcoArt Workshop 5 - Dabble with Pottery...feel mother earth (facilitated by Aparna)

5.00 – 7.00 pm Eat, shop, relax, interact with Kriti team @ the EcoCafe and EcoHaat

7 – 9.00 pm EcoPresentation: Kriti ecoInitiatives

EcoRhythms & Performance

v Dramatised work from EcoTheatre workshop

v Songs of People by Dr. Parvez Imam, accompanied on percussions by Satyajeet Mukherjee…vocals, acoustic guitar and blues harps…urban folk, regional Indian folk and Musica protesta (songs from South America)

v Concert by Music Basti

Closure of festival

On the sidelines

EcoHaat: pick up community made, ecofriendly and useful tshirts, jewellery, bags, accessories, home décor items, toys, stationary, organic food and more….consume in a sustainable and ethical way.

EcoCafe: enjoy a selected organic food menu and drinks that are healthy and tasty for the palette (a mix of Indian and Western cuisine, salty and sweet).

EcoNursery: with a selected range of organic and herbal home plants and seeds, along with pots and pans for their display.

EcoExhibition cum Competition: share your creativity in the form of paintings, photographs, small installations and poetry. Selected entries will be displayed at the ecoFestival.

EcoInstallations : display and demonstration of innovations that reduce carbon footprints and provide alternatives that are more sustainable for the environment.

Note: Workshops are open to children from 4+ and adults, all age groups. Workshop contributions would be Rs.50/- per person. Please register in advance to confirm a place for yourself, but if you can’t register earlier don’t let that stop you from coming to the festival. A certificate of participation will be given to all who attend workshops.

This festival has been conceptualised and organised by Kriti team, with support from Veoli Water (India), EADS & AQM and venue support by Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.

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Come make your EcoFootprint at this festival!

enter the ecoExhibition cum Competition @the EcoFestival 2011

2011-05-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

KRITI Team

invites you to share your creative work at the

ecoEXHIBITION-COMPETITION

as part of our

3rd Annual EcoFestival

on 4^th and 5^th June 2011

at the Alliance Française, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Celebrate World Environment Day and Showcase your creativity !

We invite entries in any of these categories:

Paintings Photographs EcoInstallation or Creation Poetry Essays

that are ready-to–display, on one or more of the following themes:

Forest: Nature works for you !

Waste: Giving it a second life !

Water: Value water to value life !

Climate change: Myth or reality?

Open for all age groups!

All selected entries will be exhibited at the EcoFestival !

Winners take home Eco-Friendly prizes !

All entries will also be awarded participation certificates !

Note: Entries must be neatly titled/ captioned and carry the creators' name and contact details, along with an

optional brief description of the entry.

Entries should be delivered latest by 5 pm on 1st June 2011 to the Kriti team workplace

@S-35, Tara Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi 110019 (nearest Metro : Govindpuri)

We request you to donate your entries to the KRITI team to support us in our future endeavours.

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EcoFestival 2011: celebrating World Environment Day

2011-05-19T13:19:00.000-07:00

Third Annual EcoFestival 2011

by Kriti team

4-5 June 2011

11 to 9 pm

The Kriti team invites you, your family, friends and colleagues for the World Environment Day weekend celebrations at its 3^rd annual EcoFestival 2011 on 4-5^th June 2011 at the Alliance Francaise, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003.

5^th June is World Environment Day, with India playing host to the day with the theme ‘Forest Nature Works for You’.

The festival is aimed at creating greater awareness, interest and actions around environment and the ecosystem, so that together we can challenge the impact of global warming and climate change; and make efforts at protecting nature and ourselves to preserve our present and the future.

The festival includes different educational, entertainment and sustainable consumption related activities that can enable us to live and work in an eco-friendly manner….ecoTHEMATIC workshops, EcoARTnPAPER workshops, EcoDANCE and ecoMUSIC workshops; ecoREELS (film shows), ecoINSTALLATIONS, ecoTALKtheWALK, ecoEXHIBITION-COMPETITION, and ecoPERFORMANCES with a combination of music, puppetry, dance and theatre. The festival will offer an opportunity to eat and drink organic at the ecoCAFE and shop at the ecoHAAT for handmade, recycled products that save the environment and support rural livelihoods.

The eco festival invites the participation of children, college students, teachers, performing artists, environmentalists, activists, community based NGOs, photographers, film makers, media and the public.

The Kriti team facilitates learning and action around development, environment and human rights issues, through capacity building; communication and performing arts; and livelihood support interventions. Registered as a Public Charitable Trust, it has been working as a self-sustaining team with a wide constituency across India, South Asia and the world, for the past 12 years.

For more details, contact us@the Kriti team:

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ECOFESTIVAL 2011 - a Kriti team event!

This Prison Where I Live: Kriti Film Club Screening May 30th

2011-05-17T21:46:00.000-07:00

Kriti Film Club

invites you for the India premiere of

THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE

A film by Rex Bloomstein/ 90 mins/ English

Time and Date: 6.30 pm, 30^th May 2011

Venue: IIC Main Auditorium, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003

(nearest Metro: Khan market)

The film will be followed by a discussion with some experts, artists and Burmese people.

About the Film

This is a film about two men joined by comedy and separated by repression.

Maung Thura, better known as Zarganar, is Burma’s greatest living comic.
Relentlessly victimised by the Burmese military junta, he is now in prison. Michael Mittermeier, in stark contrast, is free to practise his art of humour and provocation as one of Germany’s leading stand up comedians.

The genesis of this film begins in 2007, when Zarganar agreed to be interviewed by the British documentary filmmaker, Rex Bloomstein, despite being banned from all forms of artistic activity and talking to foreign media.

Equally irreverent and famous for tackling taboo subjects in his comic routines, Michael Mitttermeier has extended the range of comedy and satire in the German speaking world. Hearing of Zarganar’s fate and seeing the footage, Michael joined with Rex Bloomstein to make a film about this man who has paid such a price for speaking out against the regime. Together with a small team, they travelled secretly to Burma.

This Prison Where I Live is a feature documentary and is the story of Michael’s exploration into the personality, the motivation and the talent of the man who describes himself as the ‘loudspeaker’ for his people.

About the film maker:

Born in Devon in 1942, Rex Bloomstein began his career as a documentary director with the BBC in 1970 with cinema verité ‘All In A Day’ studies of British life. His work has exposed realities of prison life and addressed aspects of the British penal system previously closed to public scrutiny. Over the years, Rex Bloomstein has produced and directed a number of acclaimed historical studies for television. Rex Bloomstein’s work has also highlighted the abuse of human rights. To mark the 40th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1988, he conceived and produced a new series for the BBC called ‘Prisoners of Conscience’.

Rex Bloomstein is a film maker of power and Passion, who is still engaging broadcasters and distributors with his unique, hard hitting, unembellished explorations of life. ‘This Prison Where I Live’ is his third feature length documentary.

ABOUT THE FILM CLUB: Kriti Film Club is an educational and research oriented initiative of Kriti: a development research, praxis and communication team. We offer an independent and informal space for screening documentary films on a whole range of development, human rights & environment issues. We also serve as a borrowing & access space for documentary films.

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Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: May

2011-05-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

Students Resistance....University Community for Democracy

The University Community for Democracy (UCD) is a forum that was formed in Delhi University with the intent of resisting the outrageous and deeply undemocratic manner in which Delhi University as well as the city was being re-engineered for the 12 day Common Wealth Games 2010. Students of the University started the campaign in the immediate context of students of University hostels being evicted in the name of the Games, without due process of dialogue and information. Outraged by unilateral decisions made by the University authorities, a group of students organized an open call to the university community to launch a campaign against the forced eviction of students from college hostels. By the beginning of July 2010, the campaign emerged under the name of University Community for Democracy (UCD). Almost every week a planning meeting of the forum was held in the Delhi School of Economics campus, under the neem tree. While the campaign started with specific students’ issues, its understanding was to broaden the spectrum of its campaign and also talk about creative ways of resistance as well as doing politics. There was a deep concern for re-establishing the waning democratic culture in the university, as one of its slogans suggests – RECLAIM OUR UNIVERSITY! The UCD began with class-to-class campaigning, the distribution of pamphlets and attempting to mobilize people, especially students, to join the joint struggle. The aim was to politicize the student community as much as to expand the campaign.

The UCD was a unique forum which consisted not only of students of Delhi University but former students and teachers as well. The potential of the campaign was quite remarkable. The unique composition of the forum gave it a vibrancy which hoped to put sense into the minds of the university and city administrations. Apart from talking with the students and teachers as well as vendors and rickshaw pullers to build a broader coalition, it also tried to think about more creative ways of protests and campaign. While broadly critiquing the government for masking the exploitative and unjust nature of the ‘world class city’ that being imposed on the citizens of Delhi, the UCD was also concerned about the question of what a university space must be, how the very meaning of the University rests on the fact that it is a space and institution which is meant to set standards for society at large. Members of the university community were urged to join the relentless battle against oppressive state action that only intensified over the weeks leading up to the Games. With the intent of mobilizing and politicizing the university community, it held an open-air protest meeting in the campus, where the participation was large. Affected vendors, university and city activists, students, teachers and other concerned people came together to unitedly raise their voices against the disaster meted out on the people of the city in the name of the games. This opened up the possibility of a more connected and united struggle against the Games. Despite its specificity of location, the struggle initiated in the university was part of the larger struggle. While it cried “Reclaim our University”, it was also about reclaiming our city, taking back our walls and saying that we refuse to be taken for a ride whether in the name of national pride or profit of a few capitalist worms.

The UCD sat on a nine-day relay hunger strike which allowed for a collective resistance against the aggressive attempts made by the state to recast this city of 14 million people according to its own perverse will. The hunger strike was imagined as a means of collectively declaring that the people of our society cannot be discarded like unwanted waste because the nationalist imagination cannot accommodate them in its conception of ‘beauty’. The campaign declared in clear terms that to be reduced to the status of mute spectators watching the destructive reshaping of the city and university was and is completely unacceptable. It was a collective rejection of the sort of nationalism which deliberately caters to the urban middle classes as the only acceptable population for inhabiting the city, while systematically robbing people deemed unworthy by its standards off their livelihoods; which tosses students out of their rooms and thrusts aside the same labourers who build the ‘world class city’.

The campaign was born out of the urgent need to end this complicit silence. Various activities were taken up during the hunger strike which sought to re-imagine the existing understanding of a hunger strike, organizing talks, open-air film screening and many cultural programmes like protest songs. To mention a few, noted Pakistani labour historian cum activist Karamat Ali addressed during the strike and talked about the potential of students’ struggle, how it will eventually need to move out of university-specific concerns and bring questions of working class. Prof. Achin Vinaik spoke about the Nuclear deal. Prashant Bhushan, noted legal expert also came in solidarity and spoke about the possibility to struggle along with a legal framework and feminist historian Prof. Uma Chakravarty not only addressed the participants but gave her full solidarity to the struggle and hailed the efforts of an entity like the UCD. Apart from the numerous activists and scholars, some teachers also experimented with taking their classes at the hunger strike site as a way of carving out an alternative creative and progressive space in the deteriorating conditions of the university.

The UCD made many attempts and experiments to radicalize and create spaces of democratic culture within the university, which is increasingly seeing the decline and shrinking of democratic culture, whether it is the crushing of free and non-commercialised spaces or the methods in which the university authorities function which is so strongly evident in the ongoing teachers’ strike against the super imposition of the an ill-designed and mal-intended semester system. The concerns of the UCD went beyond the eviction of the students in the context of CWG; the issue of democratic culture was paramount to its understanding of what is to be done. It raised demands not only for the rehabilitation of the evicted students but also putting a stop on the regular violations of laws by the university authorities as well as stop violation of labour laws and rights.

Formations like the UCD are not only valuable but necessary in the face of the current trends that the university as a space and institution is inclined towards. We have all seen how the majority, whether it be right-wing or other sectarian organizations, have always gotten away scot-free and protected by the authorities despite their violent and regressive politics in the university. And to resist, we must come together, a collective with all our differences with a basic minimum understanding of what is democracy, equality and freedom.

Written by: Mayur Chetia (Research Student, Dept. of History, DU) and Kavya Murthy (Masters Student, Dept. of Sociology, DU)

Excerpted from an “An All They Chimed – 'Reclaim Our University'”, in Critique, October-November 2010, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 8-10.

(published in Our Diary 2011 by Kriti team)

Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: April

2011-04-28T11:46:00.000-07:00

UID

A project to give a unique ID to every resident in India was set in place in January 2009. In July 2009, Nandan Nilekani, formerly of Infosys who had recently moved out of the company, took over as Chairman of the UIDAI. The UIDAI was located in the Planning Commission by an executive order. The project was promoted as an exercise in giving every resident an identity. The inability to prove identity, the UIDAI Strategy Overview read, was one of the biggest barriers preventing the poor from accessing benefits and subsidies, and the UID would set that right. This honourable motive was quickly followed up with the admission that the “UID number will only guarantee identity, not rights, benefits or entitlements”.

The UID is a 12 digit number that will be issued to every person who parts with demographic and biometric information to the Registrars appointed by the UIDAI which include banks, the LIC and many state governments. Those with the documents to provide evidence of their demographic details, including name, address, age, parents’ names and UID, may enrol at their will. Those without documents that the enrolling agencies deem acceptable would have to depend on `Introducers’. It is in this task, especially, that grassroots organisations are being enlisted. As introducers, they would be expected to find those beyond the pale, collect the information that is to be in the data base, and get them enrolled. The UID of the introducer would be part of the record. Thus far, there is no indication of the responsibility, or liability, of the introducer; nor has there been any explanation of what erroneous information entering the data base may do to the `identity’ of the UID holder. Nothing has been said of those who may know no introducers.

The biometric data that is being gathered includes photograph, fingerprints and iris scan. This was to be deployed at the time of enrolment to effect `de-duplication’ – by which the uniqueness would be ensured – and for `authentication’ of the person. The UIDAI Committee on Biometrics, reporting in January 2010, had cautioned that “de-duplication of the magnitude required by the UIDAI has never been implemented in the world and, ...in the absence of empirical Indian data, it is not possible for the committee to precisely predict the improvement in the accuracy of de-duplication to the fusion of fingerprint and iris scores.” The document speaks of “technology risks”, including the inability to guarantee biometrics of “high quality across its thousands of enrolment points”. Six months later, on 17 July 2010, the Economic Times reported that “people with ‘low-quality’ fingerprints and corneal/cataract problems” could “pose difficulties” for the project. “Millions of Indians working in agriculture, construction workers and other manual labourers have worn-out fingers due to a lifetime of hard labour” resulting in “low-quality” fingerprints. The iris scan cannot be done on people with corneal blindness or corneal scars. A 2005 study done by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences estimated six to eight million people in India had corneal blindness, and many more people would have corneal scars. A Hyderabad based eye institute identified cataract, which results from nutritional deficiency and prolonged exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet rays, and cataract surgery, as almost certain to affect the iris. The project authorities have, however, decided to steam ahead and take a chance and focus on enrolment. Its potential for authentication will just have to wait.

As part of the marketing strategy, the UIDAI asserts that enrolment for a UID is not mandated. Except that “this will not .. preclude governments or registrars from mandating enrollment” That is, a person may be denied services such as banking, PDS or education for not having a UID. In this sense, voluntary is compulsory.

The advantages of the UID are projected as De-duplication, which will eliminate multiple identities, and Portability, as the UID travels with the person since their biometrics moves with them.

The public distribution system, health, education and NREGS are held out as areas where the UID will be useful. The thinking on how it will be useful has been remarkably sketchy, and economists such as Ramkumar of TISS and Reetika Khera of the Delhi School of Economcs have challenged these questionable claims; and their challenge lies unmet.

What is not addressed is the probability of
Convergence. The project will create a `vast interlinked data base’ which will link up the `vast government (and private sector) storehouses of private data’.
Profiling
Privacy
Function creep, where the information spills over into a range of uses which were unintended and may be unwelcome, but over which control cannot then be exercised.
Surveillance. This is an intrusive technique of social and political control which will change the realtionship between the citizen/resident and the state, handing over enormous powers of use, and abuse, to those with proximity to state power.
Tagging. As succinctly stated by Sam Pitroda: “Today there are vertical, unconnected data silos in India… That has to change. So, UID tags every person, GIS every place and the Public Information Infrastructure [currently being put in place at an estimated cost of Rs 27,000 crores at the present time] tags every (government) programme. … Think about it — 2,50,000 panchayats connected to fibre, 3G, Wimax and other digital links to schools, bus-stands.”

These consequences of the technology fixes currently under construction lie unaddressed even as the UID project chugs along.

The UIDAI has entered into numerous memoranda of understanding with a range of agencies, both government and private. It has entered into contracts with technology companies which will be involved in the construction of the Central Identity Data Repository. It has begun to capture biometric and demographic data. Yet, as 17 eminent signatories including Justice VR Krishna Iyer, Prof Romila Thapar, Justice AP Shah, KG Kannabiran, SR Sankaran, Trilochan Sastry, Aruna Roy, Prof Upendra Baxi, Uma Chakravarthi, Deep Joshi have said in a public statement, despite the enormous impact the project is likely to have, there has been
no feasibility study
no cost:benefit analysis
no public discussion
no law on privacy in place
no information on how data will be secured from theft and misuse
no assessment of the constitutionality of the project.

Earlier this year, the UK abandoned the ID project that the Blair government had begun. A strident Home Secretary in the newly elected government said: “The biometric National ID scheme represents the worst of government. It is intrusive bullying, it is an assault on personal liberties, it is too expensive and would not fulfil the promised objectives. We propose to run government business as servants of the people, not their masters.” These are words that may need to be mulled over while practising, and debating, democracy.

The UID project has proceeded this far without the authority of law to lend it support. A draft Bill was readied towards the end of June 2010. When the winter session commenced, it had still not been introduced in Parliament. Issues of data collection, centralising of information, demographic and biometric details that may be collected, data theft, identity theft, the onus of introducers, voluntariness and compulsion, convergence and a host of other concerns will wend its way into the law, and judicial discourse, through time and circumstance.

by Usha Ramanathan, Independent Law Researcher

November 4, 2010

For the hindi version of this text, please email space.kriti@gmail.com

(for Our Diary by Kriti team, 2011)

Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: March

2011-04-28T11:13:00.000-07:00

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (13 February 1911- 20 November 1984)

‘Faiz’ is the name of not just a poet.

‘Faiz’ is a name of the aural experience that is at once full of sensuous beauty and excruciating reality. It is the name of the artifice that turns words into images. It is the name of the subtle sorcery that stirs extraordinary ardour in ordinary hearts. It is the name of the beacon of hope that inspires weary travellers to plod on.

‘Faiz’ is the name of voice of humanity’s yearning for freedom. It is the name of the voice raised by people so that they may fully determine their own destiny and truly realise their potential. It is the name of the voice that pierces the darkness of oppression and illuminates minds. It is the name of the voice that provokes the weak into rebellion... the voice that startles people from their slumber.

‘Faiz’ is the name of not just a poet.

- by Ghazala Jamil for Our Diary 2011

चश्म-ए-नम, जान-ए-शोरीदा काफी नहीं
    तोहमत-ए-इश्क-ए-पोशीदा काफी नहीं
आज बाज़ार मैं पा-बजोलां चलो
    दस्त अफशां चलो, मस्त-ओ-रक्शां चलो
ख़ाक बर सर चलो, खूं बदामाँ चलो
    राह तकता  है  सब शेहरे-जानां चलो
हाकिम-ए-शहर भी, मजमा-ए-आम भी
   तीर-ए-इलज़ाम भी, संग-ए-दुश्नम भी
सुभ-ए-नाशाद भी, रोज़-ए-नाकाम भी
   उनका दम-साज़ अपने सिवा कौन है
शेहरे-जानां में अब बा-सिफ़ा कौन है
   दस्त-ए-क़ातिल के शायाँ रहा कौन है
रख्त-ए-दिल बांध लो, दिल फिगारो चलो
   फिर हमीं क़त्ल हो आएँ यारो चलो

फैज़ अहमद फैज़

Teary eyes and stormy life are not enough
Even the accusation of a secret love is not enough
Come, walk today in public wearing your shackles
Hands thus adorned, walk in trance- dance
Walk with dust over head and blood on attire
Come, walk to the beloved city, everyone is waiting-
the town ruler and the common spectators;
the arrow and the stone of accusation too
along with the sorrowful morning and the day of failure.
Who will be their ally, if not us?
In the beloved city who remains unsullied?
No one worthy of the hand of executioner remains.
Behold your heartbeats, come even the broken hearted
Friends, come lets us go and be slain
translated by Ghazala Jamil

कृति टीम प्रस्तुति

2011

26th april..a day of films to mark Chernobyl Disaster memory

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26 April 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster; together with the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan, this marks a pivotal moment for us to reflect on the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power.
Come and spend a day watching some films that bring the issues of Chernobyl closer home! This event is in solidarity with 25 years of Chernobyl Disaster initiated by CNDP and we would screen several films on the disaster and related issues.

Screenings will begin at 12.30 pm tomorrow and go on until 6.30 pm. if you would like to have lunch at the kriti workplace do let us know by 11.00 am so we can cater for you.

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Learning in Exile: Kriti Film Club screening, 16th April

2011-04-11T05:58:00.000-07:00

Kriti Film Club

invites you for the screening of

LEARNING IN EXILE

26 mins/ Hindi, English, Tibetan (English subtitles)

Director: Aprajita Sarcar

Co-Directors: Akbar Quadri and Azam Quadri

Produced by PSBT

on 16^thApril, 5.45 to 7.00 pm

(watch and talk the film after)

at the Kriti team workplace

S-35 Tara Apartments, near Alaknanda market

New Delhi 110019

(nearest metro: Govindpuri)

ABOUT THE FILM: Tibet is a way of living. A civilization with an expiry date. Fifty years of exile has also produced a culture, coloured by its context, India. The exile life has seen a set of learning’s for the guest and the host. As there is no immediate solution in sight for the Tibetan case, we have a peculiar situation of being born as an 'alien' at home, since India does not recognize 'refugee' as a status. So, the central theme is how a Tibetan negotiates with this loss in the realm of the everyday, routine life. The Dalai Lama becomes a metaphor, to delve deeper into this existential crises. Mostly based on interviews with young Tibetans from Dharamsala and Majnu Ka Tila in Delhi, the film tries to capture the dilemmas of being Tibetan in India, today.

ABOUT THE FILM MAKERs: Aprajita Sarcar has been a campaigner for the Delhi chapter of the Friends of Tibet (India) since her undergraduate days in DU. She has looked at questions of freedom and exile, through the eyes of the young generation of Tibetans, both born in India, and recent escapees from Tibet. She has a M.A. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; has been a researcher SARAI, at the Centre for Studies on Developing Societies. This is her first attempt at making a documentary.

Azam Quadri and Akbar Quadri are graduates from Jamia Milliya Islamia. Akbar Quadri has training from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2006 in cinematography.

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2011-03-25T03:52:00.000-07:00

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Wishing you insight, knowledge, creation and space for making social change a reality!

Kriti team
24th March, 2011

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Our Diary 2011 available now!

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If you have given up on Our Diary 2011, know that we have not! Amidst greatest odds, the diary will soon be available for its family and friends of users. We hope many new people will join us in this movement journey which documents resistance across the country in this daily planner cum diary...an information resource, produced creatively and with inputs from many social movements around India and parts of the world.

This year the movement journey begins with poetry by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and travels along looking at resistance from the streets of Delhi...on the UID; against the CWG by University Community for Democracy; profiles Saheli, an autonomous and non-funded women's group that continues to inspire many; and then briefly takes a critical look at why dams like Renuka should not be made to meet Delhi's water needs; and builds an understanding global peace movements.

It remembers activists, visionaries and thinkers from several movements and associate organisations and carries a listing of interesting books and documentaries in Bookscape and Filmscape. The Movement Map of India continues to be marked with contacts with several groups and struggles on the ground across India.

The diary comes with a Bookmark and a detachable Wall planner.

The size: 4.5” x 6.5”

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Theatre in College: Le Mashale

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9th December 2010: In collaboration with the NSS team in LSR, Kriti Team is organising a play on 'Irom Sharmila' to spread awareness on human right issues on the World Human Rights' Day which is marked on 10th Dec.

The play is based on Irom's writings and is written and performed by Ojas.

If anyone wants this play to be performed in or outside Delhi, do get in touch with us.

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Uniting Hearts and Minds..a festival on mental health 10-11 October 2011

MindReels...film screenings on Mental Health: October 2011

Call for contributions: Uniting Hearts and Minds - a festival on 10-11 Oct 2011

Sixth Annual Peace Day Festival 20-21 Sept 2011

Sixth Annual Peace Day Festival

KRITI FILM CLUB celebrates environment day month

make your ecofootprint on 4-5 june at the EcoFestival 2011

EcoFestival 2011: Programme Schedule

enter the ecoExhibition cum Competition @the EcoFestival 2011

EcoFestival 2011: celebrating World Environment Day

This Prison Where I Live: Kriti Film Club Screening May 30th

Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: May

Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: April

Movement Features in Our Diary 2011: March

26th april..a day of films to mark Chernobyl Disaster memory

Learning in Exile: Kriti Film Club screening, 16th April

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