r pointed out: this this and this.
makes me absolutely mad.

although we had a lovely time in delhi, and actually quite fruitful, even in the Places Where They Mainly Trust Figures.

Citizens' Initiative, Kolkata

and

Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, JNU

request the pleasure of your company and participation at

Under Development: Singur


Panel Discussion on Displacement and Development

Amar Kanwar, Praful Bidwai, Tanika Sarkar

Committee Room, School of Social Sciences (1), JNU
Wednesday 10 September
5 pm to 7 pm


Photo Exhibition on Singur

School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
Wednesday 10 September to Wednesday 17 September
9 am to 7 pm

Development Dialogues

by the members of the Citizens' Initiative, Kolkata

Tuesday 9 September
Lady Shriram College for Women

Monday 15 September
Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Tuesday 16 September
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Wednesday 17 September
Miranda House

Thursday 18 September
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

All are welcome

citizensinitiativecal@gmail.com

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watch.

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15 h 45
AV Room, Department of English, JU

discussing.

reviews. most of the stuff isn't readily available here, is the trouble.

i never imagined i would be sorry with the olympics. this, though, is beyond shame. about the policing of the entire set of pre-monsoon weather windows, the non-allowance of all other climbers on any higher reaches while the 'torch' was being taken up by an 'assault' team, of the great 'mountaineering' at evidence in the effort, i don't want to say.

in any case, one won't find anything save the most wide-mouthed smiles here. i recall tacitus citing calgacus of caledonia: they create a desolation and call it peace.

today is a sad day for sport.

i am, of course, a very industrious person. so i was reading my old blind man, as usual, and cleaning up my stuff, as usual. when i read this.
i think i would much much rather be like the old blind man -- messed up though that may be, because of how bull-headed one may be in certain things and spend one's life urging those things -- than a good critic of the old blind man.

You cannot cross over into the world of magic until you put everything else aside and behind you—including your own desires and needs—and focus on bringing an experience to the audience. This is magic. Nothing else.

i can understand passion used like that. a function of love.

passion
c.1175, "sufferings of Christ on the Cross," from O.Fr. passion, from L.L. passionem (nom. passio) "suffering, enduring," from stem of L. pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE base *pei- "to hurt" (cf. Skt. pijati "reviles, scorns," Gk. pema "suffering, misery, woe," O.E. feond "enemy, devil," Goth. faian "to blame"). Sense extended to sufferings of martyrs, and suffering generally, by 1225; meaning "strong emotion, desire" is attested from c.1374, from L.L. use of passio to render Gk. pathos. Replaced O.E. þolung (used in glosses to render L. passio), lit. "suffering," from þolian (v.) "to endure." Sense of "sexual love" first attested 1588; that of "strong liking, enthusiasm, predilection" is from 1638. The passion-flower so called from 1633.

i am in awe.

it would be so lovely to have something like this done for the bangla. off the top of my head, i don't know nearly enough, and that's what i kept thinking.

'He rested the shopping bag on the bare concrete floor of the landing, realizing that his arm had gone quite sore from supporting the twenty pounds and more of groceries and books. He discounted the enticing possibility that "it was all a dream," for the dream-world is the reality of the dreamer, to which he could not weakly surrender, no more than one could surrender to the realities of life. Besides, he was not dreaming; of that he was quite sure...'

another gaiman pointer.

i first read any merely mortal Tom after he was dead.

in the daily papers now, and some clarifications are necessary.

singur is not a village. it is a block. of which, we were in six villages.

ci has not discovered that 100 acres and no more or less will be used for purposes of the factory. we could have done no such thing without having been privy to plans of the owners/leasees of that land. however, we do know that the factory itself will not use all the 997 acres of land, and that ancillary units and god knows what else will indeed enjoy the use of a large fraction of all the leased land.

the exhibit is over at 8 pm on 2 july.
watch it now and, well, forever lose your peace.

Under Development: Singur

Photo Exhibition
27 June to 2 July, from 2 pm to 8 pm

Panel Discussion on Displacement and Development
4.30 pm, Friday 27 June

Speakers:

Professor Samik Bandyopadhyay (Senior Film Critic and Scholar)
Dr. Kavita Panjabi (Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University)
Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta (Fellow in Political Science, CSSSC)
Dr. Paromita Chakravarti (Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Jadavpur University)

Film Festival
Saturday 28 June and Sunday 29 June

28 June 2008

11.00 am - Bombay Our City – Anand Patwardhan (India: 1985, 82 min)

2.00 pm - Mahua Memoirs – Vinod Raja (India: 2007, 80 min)

4.30 pm - Czech Dream – Vit Klusak and Felip Remunda

(Czechoslovakia: 2004, 90 mins)

6.00 pm - An Aura of Development - Shubhasree Bhattacharyya and Sumantra Roy

(India: 2008, 65 min)

7.00 pm - Unnayan - Banduker Nole - Pramod Gupta (India: 2007, 44 mins)

29 June 2008

11.00 am - A Narmada Diary – Anand Patwardhan (India: 1996, 60 min)

2.00 pm - Still Life – Zhang ke Jia (Hong Kong: 2006, 111 min)

4. 30 pm - Mahua Memoirs – Vinod Raja (India: 2007, 80 min)

6.00 pm - Teardrops of Karnaphuli – Tanvir Mokammel (Bangladesh: 2006, 60 min)

to be held at the
Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Kolkata.

All are welcome.

a weirdo a day. such marvellous authors.