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Lecture
The Global City: Power, Inequality & Politics Speaker: Saskia Sassen
Date: 4th November 2007
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Film Screening
‘Liquid City’ by Matthew Gandy Date: 6th December 2007 (Hosted in collaboration with India China Institute)
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India China Institute
We congratulate the five Indian Fellows who have been selected for the India China Fellowship Program 2008-2010:
Ashwini Deshpande Mahendra Lama Milind Murugkar Anuradha Thakur Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
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The Action Research Project is based on the interview method. To make the Action Research Team conversant with the techniques of conducting interview at a professional level, PUKAR had invited Mr. Niloo Damle, a veteran journalist, to conduct a workshop on interviewing skills. This was done on November 27, 2007 at the YWCA. Indrani Dasgupta, the Research coordinator of the project helped Damle to conduct the workshop.
Niloo Damle began the workshop with a slide presentation which showed pictures of different people across the globe whom he has interviewed and in between he gave a presentation on how to develop the art of conducting an interview. He also laid a strong emphasis on interviewer having prior knowledge about the subject, which he called having "domain knowledge".
In the second half of the session Mr. Damle conducted an exercise which was based on role play, where he acted as the moderator. Overall the workshop went well and the Action Research Team members who attended the workshop have benefited from it.
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Youth & Governance
Community event at Raju Kamathi Chawl, Ghodapadeo, Ward 202 Chief Guest: Advocate Mangesh Bansod (Local Corporator) Date: 25th November 2007
Community event at Rawaji Sakpal Chawl, Fer Bunder, Ward 202 Chief Guest: Advocate Mangesh Bansod (Local Corporator) Date: 25th December 2007
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Under the auspice of the Youth & Governance Project, two separate community events were held. The first event was held on November 25, 2007 at 4:30 PM at the Raju Kamathi Chawl located in the Ghodapadeo area in Girangaon while the other was held on December 25, 2007 at the Rawaji Sakpal Chawl in Fer Bunder.
The principle idea behind these events was to create a trilateral dialogue between PUKAR Youth Researchers, community citizens and the local ward representatives. Advocate Mangesh Bansod, the corporator was present at both events. There was an active participation of the women in large numbers at both the events. They raised some important questions related to the water supply in terms of quality, timing, pressure, duration etc. The women shared heart wrenching stories with the corporator regarding all these issues and created a meaningful dialogue. The corporator answered some of the questions and promised to bring about some improvements in the current water situation.
Under this project, such dialogues will continue in many other areas like Kaula Bunder community where the PUKAR researchers are currently conducting a survey. |
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Mythologies of Mumbai
Orientation Workshop Participants: Research Assistants who are residents of Dharavi and Girangaon Facilitators: Rahul Srivastava, Shilpa Phadke Date: 2nd December 2007
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PUKAR's 43 researchers for the 'Mythologies of Mumbai' project met for their first orientation session at the P L Deshpande Auditorium in Prabhadevi on December 2, 2007. Three teams were in attendance, from SIES College, Ambedkar College and Dharavi Koliwada. PUKAR resource persons Anita Patil-Deshmukh, Rahul Srivastava, Shilpa Phadke, Suhit Kelkar and Shrutika Shitole explained the basic premises, backgrounds and unique research premises of the project, and helped the participants make a draft questionnaire for later refinements. This workshop laid down the foundation for the project.
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Visit by Ravina Aggarwal, Program Officer, Ford Foundation Date: 12th December, 2007 |
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The Girangaon trip started with a walk through the erstwhile mill areas of Mumbai and a visit to the chawls that are being transformed into mass-housing projects. The youth fellows leading this dimension of the project have been involved in studying their neighbourhood for several years now and answered many questions
In an email sent to PUKAR after the visit, this is what Ravina Aggarwal had to say about her experience:
“Very often, academic ideas for change remain abstract and unrealized but your team has really demonstrated how research can be unhinged from its elite and isolated status without losing the intensity of analysis.”
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Youth Fellowship
Workshop on Mapping Participants: Catalysts of all groups and PUKAR Team Facilitator: Shilpa Ranade Date: 17th November 2007
Workshop on Interviewing Skills Participants: Catalysts of all groups and PUKAR Team Facilitator: Sunil Karnik Date: 18th November 2007
Screening of ‘Liquid City’ For Youth Fellows of 2007-2008 Date: 8th December 2007
Research Yatra at Sonopant Dandekar College, Palghar Participants: Catalysts and Youth Fellows of all groups and PUKAR Team Date: 14th December 2007
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PUKAR (Partners
for Urban
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PUKAR is an innovative and experimental initiative that aims to contribute to a global debate about urbanization and globalization. |
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