Archive for May, 2008

Murder of Lalit Kumar, NREGA activist in Palamu, Jharkhand

Published by Vivek May 23rd, 2008 in Governance, Human rights, India, NREGA and Right to Food Campaign. 2 Comments

In one of the worst cases of attack on an NREGA activist, Lalit Kumar was murdered this week in Palamu
Right from the word go combating corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been a major agenda of activists of the Right to Food Campaign. Needless to say, it brings activists into conflict [...]

Babasaheb Ambedkar’s works online: Books, articles, talks

Published by Vivek May 20th, 2008 in Books, articles & talks, Human rights, India and Useful Links (by topics). 0 Comments

A growing collection of Ambedkar’s works are available online at Ambedkar.org
Ambedkar is easily one of the finest Indian thinkers ever. Academically, he has a degree in law, a Masters in economics (from London School of Economics), and a doctorate in social sciences (from Columbia University). At Columbia he majored in sociology and economics [...]

Mernissi’s Dreams of a trespass: Best feminist work I have read yet

Published by Vivek May 18th, 2008 in Books, articles & talks and Human rights. 1 Comment

Dreams of trespass : Tales of a harem girlhood
Rating: 5 out of 5

Author: Fathima Mernissi
Year: 2002
Category: Feminism, Auto-ethnography, Institutions
Publisher: Perseus Books

Moroccan feminist and author weaves pure magic
“Dreams of a trespass: Tales of a harem girlhood” is an auto-ethnography and is written from the perspective of a eight year old child [...]

Citations using Word 2007: Bibliographies made easy

Published by Vivek May 17th, 2008 in Research tools: software & utilities and Software & Utilities. 5 Comments

Creating neat bibliographies can be a pain, Word 2007 makes it easy
Note: There is an easier way to cite in MS Word and it’s free.  Check out my note on Zotero citation tool.
There are hundreds of formats for citations like Chicago, APA, etc.  The only thing in common between them is that each of them [...]

Introdução aos cinema Indiano

Published by Vivek May 15th, 2008 in India and Movies. 0 Comments

O India produz mais filmes que todos outros país do mundo…
…Muito mais. Tal vez tu sei que há muitas linguas na India. Muitos disso tem um grande indústria do cinema. O muito famoso é o indústria do Bombay chamo “Bollywood”. Muitos estrangeiros pensem que só Bollywood produz filmes na India; mas [...]

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