sahabhaga

I have been chosen to present at the Sahabhaga festival of participatory performance organised by the Srishti School of Art in November this year.See http://sahabhaga.blogspot.in

some brainstorming images for telecom in India

working on a telecommmunication project

I’m working on a ‘telecom’ project, making videos and graphics about telecommunications and the technologies that they involve.Its with the Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore.It sounds technical but its an important technology.So I’m at CIS for a while, lets see how it goes.

TV and yonder.

I started work at an Urdu Channel called ‘Women’s TV’ while I was in Hyderebad.It was fresh and untilled territory and exciting for a while but the channel didn’t take off because of problems in broadcasting in the old city.

I would love to work on TV again.Is anyone out there listening!

IIACD

The International Institute of Art, Culture and Democracy is a Bangalore based organisation focused on cultural democracy and begun in May 2008 by an inter-disciplinary group with expertise in design anthropology, new media art, technology and art history. The group shares the common vision and agenda of programmatic advocacy for cultural democracy.

I have been lucky for the grace that brought me to it; I’m working on some ideas for their website.Take a look at

mental health

Watching the ‘Satyamev Jayate’ episode on health care makes my life seem uncanny as well.Mental health is one of the most tricky of all areas of human activity.Anyone can be proclaimed as ‘mentally ill’ and its’ one of most fuzzy of areas, you can find yourself ridden of all control over your life; and at the mercy of family without having warranted ‘family’

Partners in crime

Reblogged from k a u n t e x t:

What happens when you are set -up against a person barely worthy of your example?I think that I have just come through a difficult conundrum.

And is actually happening.This woman who according to me is a criminal who should be brought to the book, is actually celebrating the launch of a book. I think that people should boycott both the 'book' and the 'author' in question.

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reviews for 'Bad Boy's Guide...' say its flaky at best.So this is some kind of pop-corn fluff by some-one who had enough resources and access to publish a book. I'm training my blog posts on this woman.