TIGblogs - Raheema's TIGBlog http://Raheema.tigblog.org/ What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe? en-us links for 2009-09-10 http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/772321

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]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:06:00 EDT http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/693105 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 the germ of an idea. http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/684637

I have this idea, of starting a social design firm.

This comes after the repeated rubbing in of the lsquo;young and buddingrsquo; idea: that yoursquo;re never really going to do the kind of work you want to do unless you start off on your own.


After having seen how things are in the development sector one realises that there is a lot for scope for growth.I remember having this conversation with a friend, Nisha Susan, actually when she had just come back to Bangalore after a Mass communication degree at Commit in Pune, and joined APSA, a group that works with street children in Bangalore; she told me about how she didnrsquo;t see herself working in any other sector,  rdquo;after having you grown up in India, how can you not?rdquo;.I still see the wisdom in her words.


I find myself at varying spurts of energy, dulled sometimes by the deprivation and the poverty, spurred still by the resilience that comes from endurance which I have seen in all the people around me, and spurred some more by a rough idea of how things work in India currently.Itrsquo;s a great highs great lows roller-coaster ride and thatrsquo;s what I can promisehellip; without the sentimentality and romanticism that could cloud our ability to see innovation in this sector.


So, what do we need?


Tagged: social design ]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:06:00 EDT http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/684637 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 links for 2009-05-27 http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/680925

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]]> Tue, 05 May 2009 01:05:00 EDT http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/657539 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 Blogging Womenrsquo;s day http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/609499

My day:


8:30 (roundabout) : Woke up to flatmates banging the door of our cinder filled kitchen.Bittersweet , bottomless bottomfull feeling.


9:30  stepped out to get meself items for a good  breakfast as well as the New Indian Express.My deluxe breakfast lasted a good hour with the newspaper.All in the kitchen.


11:00 Supervised the maid on washing my clothes.Irsquo;m used to doing this myself and need a machine.Usha,who does my washing and cleaning is an intelligent woman who runs her house and three kids on a pay-packet she makes out of working in some five houses.She also takes out the kachra in our building with her husband.


11:30  Conversation with flat-mates.Annie is a woman who left her home and husband with her child on her shoulder because he brought home another.She works as a house-maid too.She had a love marriage.She said that it wouldnrsquo;t have worked between her husband and her but that she still loves him.


14:30 Namaz.Stopped short by flatmate who is edgy about space.So it was the kitchen again.


15:00 Lunch.Bhajiya and rice with chutney powder.Long drawn meal.Itrsquo;s hot in the kitchen with no fan.Snappy exchanges with Priya over lunch.My flatmates are worse off than I am.My relationship with Priya is the epicenter of lot of my woes against this world these days.


17:00 Sleep.Been a busy work week.


18:00 Namaz, and a two books.


18:30 Aida, whose house I stay in needs a clerical job.Itrsquo;s the thing she does best.Does anyone know of one?


19:00 Some relays of telepathic voice chats: ldquo;Peice of Cake!rdquo;, ldquo;Whore!rdquo;, ldquo;Wersquo;ll see!rdquo;


20:00 Sleep.


21:30 Walk to this blogging destination.


23:30 Thank You for surviving me.


]]> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:03:00 EDT http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/609499 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 An Open archive. http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/591861

logo264

mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;mdash;-lsquo;pad.marsquo;, is an acronym for Public Access Digital Media Archive, whose name derives its origin from the Sanskrit term for a thousand petalled lotus, and also, they say, short for an adage, lsquo;paani saare dhaga marsquo;.


What this is for dummies is a non-commercial archival website where you can download, watch, learn about, use and add to documentary video footage from various sources, for free!


pad.ma is being developed by Majlis, the Alternative Law Forum, Point of View and Chitrakarkhana.


To know more, join us at a public discussion about the discourses that shape it.


Where: ldquo;Who Are We?rdquo; hall - inside the Discovery of India exhibition,

First Floor,

Nehru Centre,

Dr. Annie Besant Road,

Worli, Mumbai - 400018.


When:Monday, February, 16, 2009, 11:am to 7pm.


Participants:

Agaaz-Akanksha - Bombay

Ayisha Abraham - Bangalore

Desire Machine Collective - Guwahati/Shillong

GBGB Andolan (NAPM) - Bombay

Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert - Berlin

Kaushik Bhaumik - Bombay

Lawrence Liang -Bangalore

Nida Ghouse - Bombay

Nilanjan Bhattarcharya - Calcutta

Priya Sen - Delhi

Ranu Ghosh - Calcutta

Sadanand Menon - Chennai

Sanjay Kak- Delhi


May the source be with you!


See you there!


Tagged: film, open-source, pad.ma, Video ]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:02:00 EST http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/591861 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 thinking of you http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/545427

smita_patil3


Smita Patil (October 17, 1955 – 13 December 1986).


nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; ]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:12:00 EST http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/545427 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 Itrsquo;s King Kong! http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/541423

Is my city under siege?


I am harrowed, and I am reacting, but I am not retaliating.


And in my life, it is business as usual.


My heart goes out to the brave policemen who died fighting to keep my city safe.To them and their families I owe the greatest of gratitude.Thank you for your service.You do us proud.You will be remembered.


This is about community.The community of this city, the machinery of our city.It is about how well we can counter these grave madmen.


Aameen.


nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Tagged: Mumbai'08, terror, terrorattacksinmumbainbsp;nbsp;nbsp; ]]> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:11:00 EST http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/541423 23.3166667 73.016666723.316666773.0166667 Invitation http://Raheema.tigblog.org/post/509201

Photography is for me a necessary tool for dealing with vision and the visual ; with light, darkness, circumstance, identity, the internet and memories.I work with the camera in many ways.


My new exhibit in progress is at this space.


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