This video made me question a lot of things and I will try to coherently narrate them in the hope that some of you will comment on this. I believe that the experience with caste, religion are very different when you are growing up and that as an adult. The reasons are numerous but will [...]
A new caste system?
June 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: · Caste-system, Hindi, India
Stop looking
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments
There are countless times in any woman’s lives that we cross a road or a street and cant help but want to scream ’stop looking’. Eve-teasing has been tackled by various people through different ways, for some of my favourite instances, see this project or the video below from Jagori’s project Safe Delhi. Eve-teasing [...]
Tags: · Body, Eve-teasing, Global, India, Women
Our Land – our right
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
When I came across this article, I hadnt seen the videos below. As a student of communication and power relations, such examples of subaltern media – to create a space of difference, is always fascinating. Ofcourse those who dont read Hindi, would find it hard to follow, but the gist of the matter you can [...]
Tags: · Hindi, India, Land, Rights
Training the trainer
March 9th, 2008 · No Comments
I am not sure if this is what I was thinking of finding, but its a training for trainer kind of video. Though at times it sounds almost like something that presents the best-case-scenario of how immunization is done. It is also a good guide to a public health graduate to know how it really [...]
Tags: · English, health, Immunization, India
All my body needs
March 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Nutrition abounds in our food, all we need to do is identify the food that is nutritious and hence good for our body. National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad uses folk music and dance to serve nutrition in a song. Aaah you get it, I dont speak telugu, so the words i picked up are: [...]