tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276309962011-12-14T19:01:55.004-08:00a group of mediawomen from KERALA,INDIA.Bhawani Cheerath & Suneetha T Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13931753168410671269noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27630996.post-26790554816840319262008-06-22T02:17:00.000-07:002008-09-12T08:02:31.801-07:00

As usual a lot of hullabaloo about the awards.An award or two for M G Sasi's film was understandable if one is to go by the precedents set by the Awards Committees whenever a LDF Govt was in power - it was pleasing as many as possible and giving away a lot of awards to one film. Remember Sarath's Sayahnam. It did the same thing. Many more awards than what it deserved came its way. As far as

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In the early days after the release of the film, the Media both print and electronic had carried reviews, reports, interviews of the filmmaker and the cast. It was when I heard a lot of conflicting remarks about the film that I decided to go for it. Not that I wouldn't have gone for it otherwise; just that I felt it may move out one of these days and I'd have to wait for a Festival to watch the

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Media hype can make all the difference. Pottermania struck hard with the release of the latest book " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". You had visuals of the look alikes of Harry and his team waiting outside bookshops to get the copies when the 'clock struck twelve'. Thanks to the J K Rowling for having taken the young and the old alike, back to the joys of reading.At least some of them may

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The Congress has pulled out yet another of those rabbits from the hat – an unsuspecting Pratibha Patil finds herself catapulted into those rarefied spaces. What has the Sonia camp achieved in that long distance sprint for the next General elections? Maharastra as a state, has all along felt it has not got the importance it deserves in Cabinet posts (but, that is a grouse which most of the States

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In 1989 Kanshi Ram was in Kerala’s capital, Thiruvananthapuram as part of his election tour after launching his new party for the Dalits. A statement he made rings in the ears. “We will come to power. This election we will open our account.” Things may not have happened so fast but the course of events in UP only prove that the BSP juggernaut had started rolling. In the election after this one

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When Jhumpa Lahiri’s work THE NAMESAKE became a film it raised interest among Indian audiences because a book by an immigrant Indian author being made into a film by another immigrant Indian, Mira Nair. Questions were many - “Will it be loyal to the book?” “Was the book suited for adaptation to celluloid?” “How close can one portray on celluloid the immigrant’s reality?”Well, to say that Mira

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Haven’t we all heard of the “apartheid” practiced by our Indian brethren. Was told that Indians do not step into restaurants where the dark races serve them, in South Africa!! That is apartheid M,What made this thought cross my mind? No, it wasn’t the Munnabhai hangover. Instead, it has to do with Shilpa Shetty’s media attention drawing antics. First it had to do with her ‘hurt’ at the Reality

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http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Newsletter/worldbankcritique.htmThe New `Smarties' of the World Bank: Competitive women"Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven bywomen". Under this quote from "The Economist", the World Bank presentsits new gender action plan for the fiscal year 2007-10 and therebyanticipates the key objective of its women and gender policy: growth.The

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Have often wondered why the present leadership of the Marxist party is so bent upon establishing their credentials as1) the saviours of the working class,2)the people who do not believe in institutionalised religion, and, of course3)work over time to prove to the world that 'Communism is alive (in the 'May a hundred flowers bloom' style) and vibrant in Kerala.Or to put it simply "Communism is

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The ten days one sets apart every year merely to watch films has come and gone. What does one carry back after such a feast of films. None can deny that, despite the large crowds and the fact that the hustle and bustle were a distraction, the characters from some, the music from others, the structure of yet others and the themes of some more, keep coming back to you.Having started my viewing only

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When she says she can name police officials and ministers who are involved she has pulled a fast one. Now the case will zig-zag its way into eternity. The tantri will go back to his lucrative job of taking care of the Gods(?), Sobha John will surface in some place else and the men in power will go the way of all flesh, cloaked in red, saffron or the many colured insignias of their political

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first it was the conclave of Astrologers to find out what was going wrong in the rituals in the Sabarimala Temple. Then came the women (film stars) who said they had entered the portals of the temple and touched the idol, which is considered sacrilege. AND now comes the tantri who frequents a flat in Kochi for other diversions. the police went to town with exact number of times the Tantri had

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Did not even for a moment feel secure when I read of the Kerala govt's decision to send a senior bureaucrat to render all help to the four 'Malayalee victims' of the M'bai train blasts. While we saw and heard of the spirit of the Mumbaikar, one was left wondering if our home grown politician, this side of Walayar would ever know how to respond to such an event as an "INDIAN". We have got so used

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At the end of a week-long film festival, a member of the audience had this to ask - 'Why did you start the Festival with a film which had 'Rape' as a major issue and conclude with another which also had the same issue?'Saira' the inaugural film did dwell on rape in the context of communal tension and the hazards faced by a woman journalist.BUT, Aparna Sen's 15 Park Avenue was about a

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Screened recently at the Film Fest in the city, Saira, moves away from the conventional,'boy-meets-girl-song-dance-formula. An honest and earnest exercise by a first-time filmmaker, Dr Biju (a Homeo Doctor), the film does not tell us anything we did not know of.Yes-Fundamentalism and Alienation of a people are not the creation of the fanatics alone, but the establishment (yes, the sarkar) adds

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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT'GENDER AND WATER IN SOUTH ASIA'(at SaciWATERs, Crossing Boundaries project, Hyderabad, India)For its Crossing Boundaries. Regional Capacity Building on IWRM and Gender & Water in South Asia project SaciWATERs (South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies) is seeking immediate appointment of a female researcher 'gender and water in South Asia', with a

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No irreverence meant. Could someone explain how CMs VS and Karunanidhi have decided to talk on issues like Maudany's wrongful confinement/release and water levels in the barrages.Both these need to be addressed with a degree of urgency. The first one of course thas electoral repercussions. Now firmly seated in the Chair, do these CMs believe in garnering votes for the next one, by appeasing the

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When women write are they expected to limit themselves to agony aunt columns, beauty tips, rabid rantings or go ballistic and then fizzle out.If that is the commonly expressed opinion about the woman's preferences, it's time to sit up and think again! At least in small pockets focussed work is being done and one such is the publishing venture Women's Imprint. The third book has just been released

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This morning's paper reports a person getting injured in the eye as a result of an attack by headload workers. The local police station refuses to register an FIR. Early enough we are getting to feel the heat of the LDF's return to power.Shielding the CITU or any mazdoor sangh becomes the order of the day once the Marxist party-led government comes to power.If you know a person with strong

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WOMEN'S MEDIANETHere is a translation of a Bangla poem by Samshur Rehman, a poet from Bangladesh, sent by a friend. Please tell me if you liked it.I have never heard my mother …I’ve never heard my mother singing.Did she ever sing me a lullabyIn those faraway nights of childhood?I wish I could recall …Even before her body reached the fullness of springWhen she was closer to the age ofPicking up

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Moral policing seems to have become the order of the day, be it the hue and cry about Sania Mirza's short skirts on the court (who cares about her achievements!) or Khushboo's comment. Recently a TV channel put the spotlight on the decision to segregate girls and boys in educational institutions in Karnataka. Separate blocks for boys and girls.Is there a need for such segregation? What does it

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The Malayali has voted in a predictable manner, one would say, going by the LDF victory. We have followed the pattern of voting each front alternatively.Is it as simplistic as that?Was there a 'Left Wave' in the state?Is this the Waterloo of leaders like K Muralidharan, PK Kunhalikutty, TM Jacob andR Balakrishna Pillai?The voter cannot be lead by the nose. Nor can he be taken for

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Seminar: Capturing the Big Picture of Gender in Water Power22 August, 2006, Stockholm, SwedenPart of World Water Week, 20-26 August, 2006, Stockholm, SwedenThe Seminar is convened by the Gender and Water Alliance, StockholmInternational Water Institute, Swedish International DevelopmentCooperation Agency and UNDESA/Division for the Advancement of Women.The seminar is part of the 2006 World Water

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http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/16/stories/2006051604491000.htmOpinion - EditorialsEnding child labourThe International Labour Organisation's finding of a global decline inchild labour between 2000 and 2004 suggests that the multiplestrategies adopted over the past two decades to remove children fromwork are proving effective. But the report also highlights the hugechallenge, especially in the

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WOMEN'S MEDIANETAre Women caught up trying to prove that Feminism is all about being anti-man. On the other hand you have many men trying to prove that they are not as feminists make them out to be. As creatures of circumstances we carry with us the cumulative baggage of generations. In a situation where each person tries to find his space, the other, be it man or woman , becomes his

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The forward march of women halted? Fred Halliday5 - 5 - 2006http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=6&articleId=3510To what extent have the movements for women's emancipation thatemerged in the 1960s and 1970s achieved their ambitions? FredHalliday draws up a balance-sheet. Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the LSE,and Visiting Professor at CIDOB, Barcelona. His

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Hillary Rodham Clinton at Wellesley College on graduation day –“It was ‘men with dreams’ had shaped their consciousness –“men in civil rights movement, the Peace Corps, the space program.” As the first generation to come of age in the feminist era, the new graduates might want their mother’s lives, but they want their father’s lives as well.”Appeared in the Span in an aArticle on Hillary

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“We not only want a piece of the pie, we also want to choose the flavour and know how to make it ourselves” – Ela Bhatt SEWA , Magsaysay Award

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http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/440Activist lawyer Anne Kajir gets the Goldman Environmental Prize forIslands and Island Nations, 2006Papua New GuineaForestsIndigenous Lawyer vs. International Logging InterestsAttorney Anne Kajir, 32, uncovered evidence that widespread corruptionand complicity in the Papua New Guinea government has allowed rampant,illegal logging, which is destroying the largest

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This is run by a small group of mediawomen.More later

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