Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Writer's Bloc Festival - Readings at Prithvi,Jan 9th-21st.
RAGE Productions (Rahul da Cunha, Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel) is organising Writer's Bloc, a festival of plays written by new writers, to be staged at Prithvi (Jan 9th-21st) and NCPA (Jan 23rd-Feb 4th). The festival is a culmination of a year-long process, in conjuction with the Royal Court Theatre London, of conducting workshops for new playwrights to help them complete a full-length play.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
8 Dec : Nandita Da Cunha's "The Magic of Maya"
In case you are in Mumbai around that time,
please make it to the launch of the book by
please make it to the launch of the book by
'The Magic of Maya'
Friday, December 8th,
at
Crossword Bookstore,
Kemps Corner at 7 pm
Anil Dharker will launch the book, followed by a dramatic presentation of excerpts by Raell Padamsee's ACE Productions
The book has received some positive reviews so far. See:
http://www.dailypio
and is already available at bookstores from this week onwards...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
29 Nov : Book Readers club, mumbai -Cha Bar, Oxford, Churchgate
Book Readers Club
Meeting at Cha Bar- Oxford Book Store
Book for discussion : Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Time and date : 29th November 2006, 1900 hrs (7:00 pm)
Brief :
Written in first person, it's a novel about emotion, about existential angst and trauma.
'Tonight', writes Jay, the narrator of Hanif Kureishi's novella, 'my predominant emotion is of fear of the future'. Jay is about to leave his partner Susan, and their two children. Not that he has told her he's going; he intends simply to pack his bag and slink away in the morning, to find some floorspace in his friend Victor's pad in a 'fashionable, bohemian part of town' and to start anew. As he waits for dawn and a new life Jay reflects over his past life and loves and why 'it is the human condition that we are ultimately isolated, and will die alone.'
Intimacy takes us into the landscape of male angst and put-uponness. Its an interesting view to debate and displays our own rationalisations and moral fibre.
Meeting at Cha Bar- Oxford Book Store
Book for discussion : Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Time and date : 29th November 2006, 1900 hrs (7:00 pm)
Brief :
Written in first person, it's a novel about emotion, about existential angst and trauma.
'Tonight', writes Jay, the narrator of Hanif Kureishi's novella, 'my predominant emotion is of fear of the future'. Jay is about to leave his partner Susan, and their two children. Not that he has told her he's going; he intends simply to pack his bag and slink away in the morning, to find some floorspace in his friend Victor's pad in a 'fashionable, bohemian part of town' and to start anew. As he waits for dawn and a new life Jay reflects over his past life and loves and why 'it is the human condition that we are ultimately isolated, and will die alone.'
Intimacy takes us into the landscape of male angst and put-uponness. Its an interesting view to debate and displays our own rationalisations and moral fibre.
The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon is back
hit http://www.mumbaimarathon.indiatimes.com
c'mon boys & girls - lets run / walk 21 km....!!!
do cascade within your respective companies ....!!!
c'mon boys & girls - lets run / walk 21 km....!!!
do cascade within your respective companies ....!!!
8 Dec : FICCI FLO Presents a Legal Seminar on "KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS"
FICCI FLO PRESENTS
A LEGAL SEMINAR ON "KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS"
Dear MS. PAIS,
The FICCI Ladies Organization ( FLO, Bombay Chapter) is planning to organize
a "Legal Seminar" on the 8th of December 2006.
We think our women's wing can create a unique opportunity to bring together
resources for women in need of help. Women today women are facing an
increasing risk of domestic violence, physical abuse, and mental abuse and
are helpless, as well as unaware, of where to seek help. We, at FLO want to
create a platform where we can arm them with information , by introducing
them to legal professionals who are experts in their respective fields and
who can help them in return. It is aimed to take a step towards educating
the "Women" in knowing their legal rights!
The details of the seminar as follows
Event : Women's Rights
Topic : Know your rights/ Empowering
women
Venue : YB Chavan Hall
Date : December 8th 2006
Time : 10.30 am to 5.00 pm
Sponsors : Times Of India
Participants : Women across age group social
status
Logistics : 3 Capsules - 10.30 am
to 1.00 pm
v Civil : Suggested Ms Manjula Rao/ Shobha
Jagtiani
v Corporate : Suggested Mr Suhas Tuljapurkar / Ms Zia
Modi
v Criminal : Confirmed Mr Satish Manashinde
The session will be followed by lunch and then a panel discussion.
Panel Discussion : 2.00 pm- 3.30 pm
v Moderator : Suggested Ms Bacchhi Karkaria
v Corporate : Suggested Ms Anu Agha / Ms Lalita Gupte
v Films : Suggested Ms Shabana Azmi
v Lawyer : Suggested Ms Zia Modi / Ms Shobha
Jagtiani
Ms Gonsalves
v Police : Suggested Ms Meera Borwankar /Mr
Javed Ahmed
v Social Worker : Suggested Ms Flavia Agnes
v Politics : Suggested Ms Renuka Chowdhary
We plan to release a small booklet on "Legal Rights" compiled our own FLO
member who is an Advocate at The Supreme Court of India, and would welcome
SPONSORS.
I look forward from hearing from you kindly send your confirmations in the
enclosed Reply form along with the registration fees to Ms. Shweta Kapasi,
FICCI Ladies Organisation Bombay Chapter Tel: D- 2661762 / 24968000
Fax-24966631/32 Email: skap...@ficci.com at your
earliest convenience.
We look forward to having you and your friends participate in this event.
I look forward to your participation.
With best regards
PURNIMA DAS
Chapter Chairperson
FLO Bombay Chapter
A LEGAL SEMINAR ON "KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS"
Dear MS. PAIS,
The FICCI Ladies Organization ( FLO, Bombay Chapter) is planning to organize
a "Legal Seminar" on the 8th of December 2006.
We think our women's wing can create a unique opportunity to bring together
resources for women in need of help. Women today women are facing an
increasing risk of domestic violence, physical abuse, and mental abuse and
are helpless, as well as unaware, of where to seek help. We, at FLO want to
create a platform where we can arm them with information , by introducing
them to legal professionals who are experts in their respective fields and
who can help them in return. It is aimed to take a step towards educating
the "Women" in knowing their legal rights!
The details of the seminar as follows
Event : Women's Rights
Topic : Know your rights/ Empowering
women
Venue : YB Chavan Hall
Date : December 8th 2006
Time : 10.30 am to 5.00 pm
Sponsors : Times Of India
Participants : Women across age group social
status
Logistics : 3 Capsules - 10.30 am
to 1.00 pm
v Civil : Suggested Ms Manjula Rao/ Shobha
Jagtiani
v Corporate : Suggested Mr Suhas Tuljapurkar / Ms Zia
Modi
v Criminal : Confirmed Mr Satish Manashinde
The session will be followed by lunch and then a panel discussion.
Panel Discussion : 2.00 pm- 3.30 pm
v Moderator : Suggested Ms Bacchhi Karkaria
v Corporate : Suggested Ms Anu Agha / Ms Lalita Gupte
v Films : Suggested Ms Shabana Azmi
v Lawyer : Suggested Ms Zia Modi / Ms Shobha
Jagtiani
Ms Gonsalves
v Police : Suggested Ms Meera Borwankar /Mr
Javed Ahmed
v Social Worker : Suggested Ms Flavia Agnes
v Politics : Suggested Ms Renuka Chowdhary
We plan to release a small booklet on "Legal Rights" compiled our own FLO
member who is an Advocate at The Supreme Court of India, and would welcome
SPONSORS.
I look forward from hearing from you kindly send your confirmations in the
enclosed Reply form along with the registration fees to Ms. Shweta Kapasi,
FICCI Ladies Organisation Bombay Chapter Tel: D- 2661762 / 24968000
Fax-24966631/32 Email:
earliest convenience.
We look forward to having you and your friends participate in this event.
I look forward to your participation.
With best regards
PURNIMA DAS
Chapter Chairperson
FLO Bombay Chapter
25 Nov : Caferati read meet
If you are a member of Ryze you may give your RSVP here-
http://www.ryze.com/ed.a?eid=31740
You may also give your RSVP here on Google board.
The details are as follow-
Bombay November Read Meet
Date- Nov. 25th 2006,
Time- 4.30 pm To 8.30 pm.
Venue- Committee Room, Ground floor, Administrative Building,
SNDT Women's University, Nathibhai Thackersy Road (Just ahead of USIS),
New Marine Lines.
Bombay, Mh, India
If you wish to read anything at the read meet, mail me the piece in advance
so I can make it a part of programme. Every reader gets 10 mins. So make
sure that what you intend to read fits into that time frame.
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday :)
Regards,
suniti.
http://www.ryze.com/ed.a?eid=31740
You may also give your RSVP here on Google board.
The details are as follow-
Bombay November Read Meet
Date- Nov. 25th 2006,
Time- 4.30 pm To 8.30 pm.
Venue- Committee Room, Ground floor, Administrative Building,
SNDT Women's University, Nathibhai Thackersy Road (Just ahead of USIS),
New Marine Lines.
Bombay, Mh, India
If you wish to read anything at the read meet, mail me the piece in advance
so I can make it a part of programme. Every reader gets 10 mins. So make
sure that what you intend to read fits into that time frame.
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday :)
Regards,
suniti.
Monday, October 16, 2006
book club meeting in Churchgate-Cha Bar,Oxford Book Store, 20th October 6:30pm
Readers Club will start a meeting in Town at Cha Bar at Oxford Book Store, Churchgate.
First meeting of the readers club in town will be on friday 20th October at 6:30 pm. author Altaf Tyrewala will also be present. We will discuss his first Book "No God in SIght".
Alo meet to decide on which book to read for the meeting next month.
Everyone is invited to attend.
monica kohli
First meeting of the readers club in town will be on friday 20th October at 6:30 pm. author Altaf Tyrewala will also be present. We will discuss his first Book "No God in SIght".
Alo meet to decide on which book to read for the meeting next month.
Everyone is invited to attend.
monica kohli
Moving to Egypt
Hey Faithful readers,
I know I haven't posted for awhile. Been busy with a major relocation exercise. Yes, we are Moving to Egypt
I will continue maintaining my whazzupmumbai event groups : whazzupmumbai@yahoogroups.com and whazzupmumbai@yahoogroups.com
But this particular blog will now turn into an event listing, since I won't be around to review events. So stay tuned. I will review some retaurants that I have been dying to praise, since I've had a phenomenal month of eating out experiences. But that will be once I get the time.
Until then you can stay updated on what I'm doing, by visiting my new blog Whazzup Egypt !!!
I know I haven't posted for awhile. Been busy with a major relocation exercise. Yes, we are Moving to Egypt
I will continue maintaining my whazzupmumbai event groups : whazzupmumbai@yahoogroups.com and whazzupmumbai@yahoogroups.com
But this particular blog will now turn into an event listing, since I won't be around to review events. So stay tuned. I will review some retaurants that I have been dying to praise, since I've had a phenomenal month of eating out experiences. But that will be once I get the time.
Until then you can stay updated on what I'm doing, by visiting my new blog Whazzup Egypt !!!
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Baiscope Entertainments -Workshop on Indian Animation Industry
Having attended Baiscope Entertainment's previous workshop with Anurag Kashyap we were quite gung ho about the animation workshop that they had invited us to.
The speakers were scheduled to be Geetanjali Rao winner of 3 awards at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and Siddharth Jain Head of the Animation Division at Adlabs Films Ltd
Geetanjali spoke about her experience with Animation since the last 10+ years. How animation was intially shot on 35mm cameras & each frame had to be drawn painstakingly. She also went into a lot of technical details which were very interesting, especially to the aspiring animators in the audience. Readers would recognise her work from the Hutch MMS animated ads
She has produced, directed & animated the film Printed Rainbow which won 3 awards at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Kodak Discovery for best short film, OFAJ Very Young Critics Award and Petite Rail d'Or Award for best short film.
The animated short film is about an old woman who lives alone with her cat
who is transported into new worlds when she looks at the covers of the matchboxes that she has painstakingly collected. 
Siddharth Jain spoke about the Business Aspect of Animated Films. With Hanuman making a sizeable ROI, a lot of people are now interested in the Animation genre, but unfortunately not all of them can produce a good quality film. Plus for big producers, there are no previous trend lines to observe before taking a decision on whether to invest capital in an Animated Movie.
Adlabs is currently in the process of making an animated movie with Rajnikant as the main character. Hopefully this will be a success & this will give fillip to the fledgling animation film industry in India
The speakers were scheduled to be Geetanjali Rao winner of 3 awards at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and Siddharth Jain Head of the Animation Division at Adlabs Films Ltd
Geetanjali spoke about her experience with Animation since the last 10+ years. How animation was intially shot on 35mm cameras & each frame had to be drawn painstakingly. She also went into a lot of technical details which were very interesting, especially to the aspiring animators in the audience. Readers would recognise her work from the Hutch MMS animated ads
She has produced, directed & animated the film Printed Rainbow which won 3 awards at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Kodak Discovery for best short film, OFAJ Very Young Critics Award and Petite Rail d'Or Award for best short film.
The animated short film is about an old woman who lives alone with her cat
who is transported into new worlds when she looks at the covers of the matchboxes that she has painstakingly collected. Siddharth Jain spoke about the Business Aspect of Animated Films. With Hanuman making a sizeable ROI, a lot of people are now interested in the Animation genre, but unfortunately not all of them can produce a good quality film. Plus for big producers, there are no previous trend lines to observe before taking a decision on whether to invest capital in an Animated Movie.
Adlabs is currently in the process of making an animated movie with Rajnikant as the main character. Hopefully this will be a success & this will give fillip to the fledgling animation film industry in India
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Blogspot blocked by ISP's in India ????
I was trying to check on my blogs since Friday morning, but somehow I wasn't getting through. Initially thought it was a temporary glitch, but by Saturday morning there was no improvement. Was travelling that day & the next and today whole day, I still couldn't connect. I had written to the powers that be at the blogspot help on saturday itself, but have still not got a response from them.
Spoke to a couple of friends who said that they weren't facing any problems, so I thought it was a wierd bug in MY system. Turns out the bug is a bee in some ministry's bonnet, who has ordered that blogspot, geocities & typepad be blocked by ISP's.
Some of the ISP's that have blocked blogger are at this location
A group of Indian Bloggers who have all been hit by this blockade are grouping together & looking for solutions here
Got all this neat info on the Bloggers group & http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban
First time I have had to use a proxy server to access what I write. Makes me feel like I'm some kind of dirty criminal or terrorist disloyal to my country.
Much as I love my country, the politicians are slowly making it difficult for us to keep doing so.
First they take 1/3 of our salary in taxes & then they don't give us basic infrastructure (case in points floods 2 weeks back) non-adequate security (bomb blasts last week) and now they take away my stress release mechanism & window to the world (blogspot being banned this week) what are they gonna do to me next week ? Throw me in Jail ?
Neha has sone a much better job of blogging about this
I'm just tired, sleepy & cranky, so I shall sign off here.
Spoke to a couple of friends who said that they weren't facing any problems, so I thought it was a wierd bug in MY system. Turns out the bug is a bee in some ministry's bonnet, who has ordered that blogspot, geocities & typepad be blocked by ISP's.
Some of the ISP's that have blocked blogger are at this location
A group of Indian Bloggers who have all been hit by this blockade are grouping together & looking for solutions here
Bypassing the ban
For sites blocked by domain names
- Using google translate, e.g., if the blog is "blogyouwanttoread.blogspot.com", then use
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=blogyouwanttoread.blogspot.com
For Blogspot
- http://pkblogs.com:
Enter your blog name there and you're in business. Or directly use a URL of the form
http://www.pkblogs.com/blogyouwanttoread
For example, http://www.pkblogs.com/mumbaihelp will let you see http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com - Anniyalogam where you can draw just the text of the blog.
- Use bloglines to find an RSS Feed to the blog.
Using proxy server for any blocked site
One way to visit a blocked site is through another site, generally called a proxy site. Some such sites and the info on how to use them are given below.
In this specfic case go to site: www.boreproxy.com
On that page below the link for favourites you will find an edit box. Put the shortcut of the site you want to access in this edit box eg. http://xyz.blogspot.com
Press Enter and voila! you have access:)
Use www.hidemyass.com and then type in the site you wish to access.
Use http://www.shysurfer.com. It allows you to not just surf, but also make posts.
- Using http://www.daveproxy.co.uk also works
Got all this neat info on the Bloggers group & http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban
First time I have had to use a proxy server to access what I write. Makes me feel like I'm some kind of dirty criminal or terrorist disloyal to my country.
Much as I love my country, the politicians are slowly making it difficult for us to keep doing so.
First they take 1/3 of our salary in taxes & then they don't give us basic infrastructure (case in points floods 2 weeks back) non-adequate security (bomb blasts last week) and now they take away my stress release mechanism & window to the world (blogspot being banned this week) what are they gonna do to me next week ? Throw me in Jail ?
Neha has sone a much better job of blogging about this
I'm just tired, sleepy & cranky, so I shall sign off here.
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