Air Deccan opened bookings this morning for its Airbus sectors for Feb'06-Mar'06. This means 50,000 seats between 1 Re and 999 Rs! Ain't that amazing, folks? The ad appears in today's Times of India, and Indiatimes too is carrying the banner since yesterday night.
What's more is that Its a fabulous schedule which will keep operations issues in check. With this Feb-March schedule, the total number of daily Airbus flights has become 64. Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi will have 5 daily flights now (as against the current frequency of 2). Hyderabad-Delhi-Hydeabad and Mumbai-Kolkata-Mumbai each get another flight in additional to the existing ones, thus making these sectors twice a day. Kolkata-Raipur, Chennai-Trivandrum, Chennai-Kochi, Chennai-Pune, Hyderabad-Ahmedabad are the new sectors. Bombay-Nagpur-Bombay has been 'upgraded' from ATR to Airbus.
"Ganjam Nagappa and sons are hosting a series of music concerts from 25th to 28th Nov 2005.
The schedule of the concert is: 25th - Hindustani Vocal by Ashwini Bhinde Deshpande. 26th - Hindustani Vocal by Ajoy Chkraborthy 27th - Carnatic Vocal by Hyderabad brothers 28th - Carnatic vocal by T.N.Shesgopalan."
All the concerts will be held at Chowdiah Memorial hall, Malleshwaram. Time: 6:30 PM. Passes can be collected from Ganjam Showroom, Infantry road. Bangalore during working hours. "
After a fortnight or so, really unbearable weather is back in Bangalore. This whole-day non-stop drizzle is so very irritating. You can't go anywhere without getting drenched. I long for sunny days, and sometimes even secretly indulge in childhood dreams involving Mary Poppins, because when you are with Mary Poppins:
Oh, it's a jolly 'oliday with Mary Mary makes your 'eart so light! When the day is gray and ordinary Mary makes the sun shine bright!
Well, in absence of Mary Poppins, I guess I can only hope Bangalore authorities would do something like what these townfolks in Austria did! The town of Rattenberg is described as '10 minutes walk from sunshine' ! So, the folks are planning to use a huge mirror in a nearby sunny area to reflect sunlight onto the blighted town.
Oh, how I wish we too could get some here in this (currently godforsaken) place called Bangalore!
Blogs have been around for sometime now. With all the hype and media attention they've been recieving, they seem to have gone to people's head. Bloggers need to be more careful in what they write 'cause in this prosumer kinda society, the content consumer is (unfortunately) believing whatever s/he sees on the web.
I echo similar thoughts in this article in The Times of India (Nov 02, 2005). Also refer to my earlier posts: Why do I blog? (March 09, 2005), and Blog People (March 07, 2005).
"William Joseph International Academy For Performing Arts Presents
An Evening Of Classical And Jazz Music. A Tribute To Maestro J.T.William Joseph Sunday 27 Nov. St John's Amphi Theatre -Koromangala 6:30pm
Admission To The Concert Is Free So Do Come With Family And Friends. The Evening Would Feature Dr. Ashley Williams Jazz Piano-Vocals. Also Performing Will Be -
Aarti Desikan-Sowmya Venkatesh- Gauri Burde-Divya George- Vocals K.N. Prakash- Classical Guitar Johnny & Pranav- Piano Violin Trio- Prafulla- Dawn- Dr. Giles Admission To The Concert Is Free So Do Come With Family And Friends Oops Dont Forget To Bring Your Wollens And Something For The Mosquitoes For Detail Contact 98442 75837- 9844077004"
DFJ-TiE India Venture Challenge Business Plan Competition
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) are organizing the India Venture Challenge as the first national level business plan competition in India with the intent of supporting entrepreneurship in India and helping in the development of entrepreneurial acumen in India. It is targetted at both students / professionals interested in entrepreneurism as well as practising entrepreneurs. This will be the first contest where participants will be mentored and guided through the TiE mentoring process to refine and sharpen their business plans.
Bill Gates coming to India-> Starting a new era of software development
"Get Ready for Bill Gates! Bill Gates is specially visiting Bangalore on December 9, 2005 to kick off the India Launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. Be there and join the excitement.
Join us to: # See Bill Gates unveil a new IT era # Understand Microsoft's vision behind the new Application platform # Understand how Microsoft's new Application Platform provides .*. the capability to run mission critical applications .*. a Business Intelligence framework to help organizations take better decisions .*. the capability to deliver faster results # Listen to customers and partners speak about their experience with the new application platform # Get Free Evaluation Software # Get Free access to Microsoft Learning Certifications on the new Application Platform "
A general article on blogging in The Hindu Business Line (Oct 31, 2005). My last few days' posts are as if to prove what I say in the article! But seriously, general articles like these have to stop because they help increase the hype about blogs, which are essentially nothing more than a webpage.
"On November 16th we are organizing an unique program called 'Beladingala Kaavyadaare' in Suchitra kalakendra. Kannada's one of the leading poet Dr.N.S.Lakshmin Naarayana Bhatta will be presides the program along with other 5 kannada poets like H.S.Venkatesh murthy, Lakshmana Rao, Dr. Sandya Reddy etc...this program followos with Dinner with the poets.
Entry fee is 100 Per head. Program starts at 6:30 PM on 16th November 2005
With pleasure, we invite your interest to our little hamlet at Kanatal, known as The Terraces (www.theterraces.biz). The property is perched at an altitude of 8500 ft, offering a spectacular view of the snow clad Garhwal Himalayas from each one of the 20 well-appointed rooms and a super luxurious suite. It is a place surrounded by forests, chirping birds, unambiguous blues, friendly folks and so on........
To realize and accomplish the needs of the corporates, a 50-55 persons Theatre-Style Conference Hall with Audio and Visual Aids, a team building manager who can advocate the paths of the jungle combat, cave rescue, group juggle, warp speed , helium stick, group skits and many more. An elucidation on mind and body not mentioning the Progressive Muscular Relaxation (PMR) would be an incomplete initiative. For this, besides yoga and meditation, the focus is also towards Sensory Awareness Training which parts unveiling stress programmes like Present Moment Awareness Techniques, Self & Identity, Fight & Flight Response, The 5 Anchors for Personal Growth, Self Expression, Elocution/Theatre Simulation, Self Hypnosis- a personal empowerment technique etc.
On the lighter vein, Recreational Activities, like Billiards, Table Tennis, Board Games, A Discotheque, A Skating Ring, Mountain biking, Trekking, Rafting, Star Gazing, Bird Watching, out door Games are all a part of the package.
Further, to satiate the taste buds, a Multi-Cuisine Restaurant with a service from a Two Section Kitchen, i.e. demarcating The Veg and Non-Veg Areas. A Terrace Café to mingle the savor and bask and the ultimate place for Bar-Be-Que and Bon-Fire...The Machaan.
To wrap up briefly, the place "THE TERRACES" is to rejuvenate oneself, wind up important memo or just to leisure around in the helm of nature.
Should you need any other information about our resort please let me know.
With Best Regards
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November 14, 2005 Bangalore As part of Children's Day on Nov 14th, Vyjayanthi Kashi directs a dance drama billed as HARMONY THROUGH DANCE, sponsored by the cultural department at Ravindra Kalakshetra, at 6.30pm. e-mail: futureofdance@hotmail.com / www.schoolofkuchipudi.com November 16, 2005 Bangalore Vyjayanthi Kashi and group present WOMEN OF MAHABHARATH as part of the Mahabarath festival at the National College grounds, Basavangudi at 6.30 pm e-mail: futureofdance@hotmail.com / www.schoolofkuchipudi.com
November 25, 2005 Bangalore
Sharmila Mukerjee with her students will present an Odissi recital at Yavanika, State Youth Centre, Nrupathunga Road, Bangalore on Friday 25th November at 6.30 pm under the Horizon series of Empanelled Artists organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Dept of Kannada and Culture, Dept of Youth Services and Sports and Youth Writers and Artists Guild. e-mail: sharmila_mukerjee@hotmail.com
November 26, 2005 Bangalore CELEBRATIONS, a colourful cultural event will be presented by 400 children at Chitra Kala Parishad. Concept, choreography and direction by Vyjayanthi Kashi e-mail: futureofdance@hotmail.com / www.schoolofkuchipudi.com "
World-Information City Global Information Landscapes and Urban Transformations
World-Information City is a one-week programme of events addressing global issues of intellectual property and technology in conjunction with changing urban landscapes.
Held at India's IT metropolis Bangalore, World-Information City is a cooperative project of the Institute of New Culture Technologies/t0 (Vienna), Sarai CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society (Amsterdam), ALF (Bangalore), Mahiti (Bangalore) and l ocal partners.
The programme brings together researchers, artists and activists from Europe and South Asia. It consists of a conference, workshops, an exhibition, a public campaign, and a series of musical and art events based on electronic media, and has been produced with the financial assistance of the EU's EU-India Cross Cultural Programme.
WORLD-INFORMATION CITY CONFERENCE Dates: 17 – 18 November, 2005 Venue: Cubbon Park Auditorium
The conference segment of World Information City brings together panels, discursive and research based presentations and conversations on “Information” and the “City” as societal and political realities, with a particular emphasis on their interrelationships. We hope by doing so we are able to speak not only to the broad themes of information, society, politics and history but also to the concrete realities of “World Information Cities” such as Bangalore.
Information - by which we mean the gamut of practices and processes of knowing and making known the world - can also be seen as that constellation of embodied intellectual labour, accumulated cultural capital and evolving knowledge systems that play a key part in the maintenance of the fabric of contemporary existence. In particular, the increasing importance of information in all its social expressions is becoming manifest in physical environments, and above all, in the shaping of urban spaces. The power structures that shape information as “intellectual property” are impacting more and more on the design of urban environments, often unhinging notions of social equality and giving rise to practices of disobedience.
But while information and its interaction with urban environments are partof everyday experience, it remains a grossly under-theorized category. World-Information City and the conference that is placed at its culmination is an effort on our part to inaugurate a set of discussions that we hope will inform future work in this area as well as contribute to debates within the public domain.
The conference aims to initiate reflections on the histories of different information regimes and on the transformations of urban spaces in the emerging global information economy. It looks at the realities of intellectual property, surveillance and censorship and at efforts to counter them, and discusses the founding and sustaining of the “commons” of information, considering ways in which practices of knowledge uphold, transgress or subvert governing protocols of social, cultural and political life.
Conference Schedule Thursday, 17 November
10:15 – 11:15 Welcome – Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore)
Statement of Partnership – Paul Keller (Waag Society, Amsterdam)
World-Information.Org (Introduction) – Konrad Becker (Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna)
Official Opening – Thetis Tsitidou (EU-India Programme)
Faultlines Considering Fissures in Information and Society. Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Researcher-Practitioner, Artist, Writer, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Keynote Presentation
11.15 - 11.30 Tea break
Global Information Landscapes and Urban Transformations in Asia
14.00 - 16.00 Cyborgs and Cyber Cities How City Space and Labouring get inflected by Information in Bangalore and Delhi. Nishanth Shah (Research Scholar, CSCS, Bangalore), Iram Ghufran (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel
16:00 - 16.30 Tea break
Implications of IP on Knowledge / Culture Production
16: 30 - 18.00 The Organization of Knowledge and Culture Production. Felix Stalder (Media Theorist, Vienna/Zurich) – Presentation Urban Agents – Hybrid Spaces. Eric Kluitenberg (Media Theorist, De B alie, Amsterdam) –Presentation
18:00 - 19:30 Trouble in the Archives. Shahid Amin (Historian, Delhi University), Shuddabrata Sengupta and Ravikant (Sarai-CSDS) – Conversation
Friday, 18 November
10.30 - 12:00 Underground Raids and Multiplex Screenings The Turbulent World of Entertainment, IP, Regulations and Real Estate in Delhi. Jawahar Raja (Legal Practitioner and Researcher, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi), Anand Vivek Taneja (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel
12:00 -12:15 Tea break
Technologies of Information Control
12:15 - 13:45 Surveillance, Security and Social Sorting in the City. David Lyon (Historian, International Surveillance Project, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario) – Keynote Speech
13:45 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00 News you can use Toward Political and Personal Ecologies of Information in Society. Subramanya Sastry (Software Programmer, Open Sourc e Activist, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi), Taha Mahmoud (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel
16:00 - 16:45 The Scanner at the Border. Florian Schneider (Media Activist, ‘No Borders Campaign’ / ‘No One is Illegal’, Munich), Felix Stalder, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – Conversation
16:45 - 17:00 Tea break
17:00 - 18:30 The Collateral Damage of Breaking News. Arundhati Roy (Writer, Delhi), Lawrence Liang and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – Closing Conversation
Conference Editors: Konrad Becker (t0 – Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna), Lawrence Liang (ALF, Bangalore) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai-CSDS, Delhi)
1. World-Infostructure Exhibition World-Infostructure Exhibition and Guided Tours World-Infostructure visualizes subject matter linked to various aspects of the information society based on research by World-Information.Org on global communication networks, the global media market, global content channels, global brain ware, global data bodies, global info rights and digital security. Numerous information displays illustrate issues associated with the development of digital media, new communication tools, and sophisticated technical instruments e.g. the increasing use of biometric devices. Special dis plays will be developed relating to local issues of the World-Information City Bangalore.
Date: 14 – 19 November Opening hours: 09:00 – 18:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Huts
Opening Date: 14 November Time: 17:00 – 21:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Huts
2. World-Information City Exhibition The exhibition is a dispersed show across different sites from Russell Market in Shivajinagar through Tasker Town to Cunningham Road. It is designed in such a way as to facilitate site-specific works, but also to allow for interaction with different publics. The exhibition is also stretched between these three points in the city (Russell Market, Cunningham road, Cubbon Park) so that the experiences, sights, sounds and smells along the way are part of the show, it is thus simultaneously being informed and broadened by the media and art projects. Guided Tours through the exhibition offered on demand.
Date: 15 – 19 November Time: 11:00 – 20:00 Venue: Dispersed between Russell Market in Shivajinagar through Tasker Town to Cunningham Rd.
Opening Date:14 November Time: 18:00 Venue: Centre for Film and Drama, 5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71, Millers Road
Projects:
Centre for film and drama 5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71, Millers Road · Age/Sex/Location - Raqs Media Collective · Now Showing the Cinematograph Act, Alternative Law Forum · No_des, Sarai Med ia Lab · Rhizome(working title), Sarai Media Lab · Why I am so blaise, Rahima Begum · Dancing on Glass, Ram Ganesh (8:00 pm, 18th November)
Colab Art and Architecture Gallery, 202, Shah Sultana, Cunningham Road · "Down the road" (Sheela Gowda) · "Melrose, Bangalore" (Christoph Schäfer, sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore)
Lady Jehangair Kothari Memorial Hall, Queen's Circle (Queens Road and Cunningham Road intersection) · "Makrolab – Electronic Media monitoring" (Marko Peljhan) · “On voice culture and automatisme” (Navin Thomas)
Lawyer's Collective, 1st Floor, No. 4A, MAH Road, Off Park Road. Tasker Town, Shivajinagar · "World Info City TV" (Shaina Anand)
Elgin Talkies, Shivaji Road · "Electricity as network" (Ashok Sukumaran)
Location · "Straigth 8 - Film Tales Part I" (Ayisha Abraham) · “The square and the round god – an idea for a universal trajectory (in the manner of a proposal for 12 German pop songs)" (Hilary Koob-Sassen) · "Untempered – a soundscape installation" (Rajivan Ayyappan)
Theatre Play “Dancing On Glass” Date: 18 November Time: 20:00 Venue: Centre for Film and Drama
"Melrose, Bangalore" Christoph Schäfer (sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore)
"Revolution Non Stop" (German with English subtitles) Christoph Schäfer (Cinema-room at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore)
World-Information City Campaign Projects Dates: 14 – 20 November Venue: Public Space – Bangalore Streets
Billboard Designs, Posters and Stickers in the Public Sphere: Along the lines of the overall topic “What do stricter intellectual property laws mean for the public, for digital ecology, accessibility of knowledge, and also for the future of urban spaces?” World-Information.Org will be presenting the following projects:
“Delinquents” by Ullrike Brückner (Berlin): Portraits of “delinquents” accused of digital crimes point at the twofold character of intellectual and cultural property. (Website: http://www.musterfirma.org<http://www.musterfirma.org/> )
“Good questions” by Sebastian Luetgert (Berlin): 9 Questions central to the problematic character of digital property. (Website: http://www.textz.com<http://www.textz.com/> )
“Drawings” by Elffriede (Vienna): A series of drawings combined with text questioning the viewers about their point of view or making them conscious about questions referring to the theme. (Website: http://www.elffriede.net<http://www.elffriede.net/> )
“You are free” by Paula Roush (London) This project consists of invading the everyday space of advertising, whose production and consumption cycle is dominated by a regime of intellectual property known as ‘copyright’ with an infiltration from the parallel production regime of copyleft. (Website: http://www.msdm.org.uk<http://www.msdm.org.uk/> )
“Who owns your knowledge?” by Dominik Hruza (Vienna): … and who benefits from the information you produce?
“United We Stand” by 0100101110101101.ORG: A band of media artists, 0100101110101101.ORG use non-conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal effort. Past works include staging a hoax i nvolving a complete made-up artist, ripping off the Holy See, and spreading a computer virus as a work of art. (Website: http://0100101110101101.org<http://0100101110101101.org/> )
World-Information City Guided Tours
"Community-Radio Project Number 20" with Ashish Sen Date: 15 November Time: 08:30 – 17:30 Location: Villages in Karnataka
This radio project started it’s work in Budikote (Kolar district, Karnataka) in 1999 with a needs assessment study, findings of which revealed that the community did want an information centre, which would give them timely and locally relevant information, through audio, a medium which they were comfortable with. With this end in mind began a spate of training sessions for volunteers conducted by experts from All India Radio on programming techniques. As an outcome of these training sessions volunteers began to make programmes on topics such as sericulture, organic farming techniques, child and reproductive health, ins urance etc. In Partnership with VOICES (http://www.voicesforall.org<http://www.voicesforall.org/> ) Web site: http://www.voicesforall.org/communityradio/namma_dhwani.htm
“Cities within Cities: an intellectual turbulence within a global ideal” with Solly Benjamin Date/time: 16 November Time: 08:00 – 15:00 (Departure: Cubbon Park – Mahadevpura) Location: Bangalore
A travel through several contested landscapes in Bangalore. Some of these, in Bangalore’s eastern periphery, will be huge territories serviced with high grade infrastructure dedicated to IT companies. Their adjoining areas are both reside ntial and home based manufacturing but contrast in the very low levels of infrastructure and services. Such marginality is only surfacial as deeper lie complex political contestation in the way of day to day “encroachments” as urbanization engulfs.
Attendance limited – advance registration at projects@mahiti.org
Workshops
Economy of the commons With Felix Stalder Date: 19 November Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Auditorium
This workshop will focus on the heterogeneity of commons-based peer production. Taking software production as a starting point, we will examine the different actors – commercial companies, NGOs, academics and students, as well as individuals – who are able to sustain a common project (the development of a particular code base) despite the diverging, and possibly even conflicting, agendas they pursue by doing so.
Participants of this workshop will gain insight into the emerging economy of the commons, helping them to better devise strategies to act within it. Participants are encouraged to contribute their own experiences as actors on open source projects as the empirical reference points for the workshop.
The presentation will focus on the Connected! LiveArt programme wherein Waag Society worked with several artists and communities on networked (connected) art. In the programme the collaboration and communities-building aspect was emphasized and also represent ed part of the research.
The programme had four nested components: Projects, Artists-in-Residence, Sentient Creatures Lecture Series and Anatomic, a weekly gathering of young media artists interested in networked composition.
Open sound workshops Date: 15 – 18 November Time: 09:00 – 18:00
1. Full disclosure and digital art – why programming matters With Chris Kummerer
This workshop will demonstrate and introduce free software programmes. Some of them were designed specially for the demands of musicians and video-artists, whereas others – though highly useful for artistic production – weren't developed with the digital/media artist in mind. The aim of this workshop is to show that in many cases open-source – in contrast to its commercial counterparts – is more useful when it comes to combining the potentialities of different programmes. We will further concentrate on technical skills, working with source code, communicating special demands to programmers, and especially on the implications of licensed software on the creative use of programmes.
Participants will be able to gather experience and skills with the introduced tools in a performance during the Closing Event of World-Information City. Additionally, a project developed in the workshop will be presented in the Closing Event.
2. Interactive digital audio workshop With Ralf Traunsteiner
In the centre of interest is “Pure Data” (Pd), oriented along the lines of graphics and objects, as means for the production of interactive audiovisuals in real time. Pd is an open-source software and will be provided on different platforms (Linux, OS-X, Win). Pd is a real time signal processing system with many extensions and interfaces thus supporting networking and interaction, which makes it an useful tool for experimental audio, multimedia and installation artists. Participants from India will be provided with a first overview on graphical DSP-Programming with Pd. After a short introduction to the basics of digital audio-signal-processing we will concentrate on the practice-oriented intermediation of production, improvisation and live presentation of electronic music.
Participants in the workshop will gather experience and skills in the field of networked multimedia performances during a joint “Pd-Network-Jam” presented in the Closing Event of World-Information City. Additionally a project developed in the workshop will be presented during the Closing Event.
3. FOSS With Par ag Goel, Dinesh, Abhas and Edward Crompton Dates: 14/15 November Time: 9:00 – 18:00 Venue: Mahiti
The workshop has four main sessions.
a. FOSS for Desktops. Parag Goel who manages the Evolution and OpenOffice projects at Novell, India, will be conducting this session.
d. FOSS for Open Publishing. Edward Crompton from Mahiti will conduct this session.
4. Electronic Media Monitoring With Marko Peljhan Date: 15 November Time: 18:00 – 20:00 Venue: Jehangir Kothari Hall Electronic Media Monitoring captures and analyses signals of global communication streams. The basic setup of the electronic media monitoring unit provides an all purpose scanning and electronic interception environment covering various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electronic Media Monitoring targets satellite based media on the widest possible geographical basis, satellite based media programming, rx operations in UHF and L-band comsat areas, satellite tracking, VHF satellite rx-tx, video KU-band reception and analysis, experimental satcom project development and other forms of electronic communication.
World-Information City, a week-long transnational programme of events related to issues of the information society, is wound up in this closing event that features various forms of artistic and social engagement with information, including electronic music, open source projects, and the shortfilm showcase "Thought Thieves".
? Electronic Music Performance
Ish/dbase Chris Kummerer TronStoner
? Presentation of Open Sound Workshop Results
? Thought Thieves: Presentation of Winner Projects
Signal Sever is the sensor array and processing unit conceptualized by pact systems which maps the electromagnetic spectrum, processes, transforms it and sends it back into the ether in many different directions and forms
Venues and locations Jawahar Bal Bhavan Auditorium, Cubbon Park, Bangalore 560001
It is our pleasure to inform you that IFIM-B school will be conducting its annual grand management fest SMRITI PRAVAHA during the month of December 2005. The event will be held across three days i.e. from 1st to 3rd of December.
Various events will be held under different clubs of the institution. Events will be designed in such a way that it becomes a platform for the participants to showcase their talents in front of corporate dignitaries and academicians. The main attraction is the Biz Quiz wherein the competition will be held between the young corporate managers and budding managers, which will be conducted by an eminent quizmaster. The various events include,
Finance-
Stock Wars –will be organizedby India bulls, and other events
Marketing-
Product launch and other events by Lintas
Human Resource-
On stage extempore and other events by Titan and consultancy
International Business
Business negotiations and other events
Information Technology
Quiz and other events
And in the evening colourful cultural event will be held where the participants can exhibit another side of their talent. On the last day of the fest, the renowned music band EUPHORIA will hold Euphoria night.
The brochure regarding the fest will be dispatched very soon and a sincere attempt will be made to invite you personally. Looking for your cooperation to make the fest a successful event. To know more about this contact our website-www.ifimbschool.com
RASJNA, a division of Resilient Software Consultants Private Limited (www.resilientconsultants.com) is an ART CLUSTER that aims to foster creative dynamism in the IT industry. The belief that there are numerous talents that are hidden behind the concrete and glass of the Super connective Technology Highways that need to be showcased lead to the birth of RASJNA
To provide a meaningful and nourishing environment to the musicians, painters, artistes and talented young men and women that drive the IT revolution today; RASJNA would like be a part of presenting their extraordinary, multi-faceted and multi-dimensional skills and talents.
"To ignore the raging fire of their artistic endeavors is to burn a blooming tree which RASJNA wants to prevent."
We care to see the talent of these unique minds come to the fore of the IT revolution and let the World know that not only are "our boys and girls great at pummeling the IT mite but also grand in their design to provide beauty to the eye with their sculptures, paintings; music to the ear with their songs and shimmering instruments; serenade their fancy footwork; or bring to fore their artisan works".
"Convert your hobbies into realities and showcase them to the World, we are here to hold your hand all the way through" And that's a promise!
The first step in this hand-holding exercise is to provide you a platform to compete against your peers and come out the winner as the "Music Titan of IT"
Sub Category: Level 01 -Varnam/Keerthana in Carnatic classical & Khayal/Thumri in Hindusthani Level 02 - Thillana/Bhajan in Carnatic & Bhajan/Dhun/Tharana in Hindusthani
Age is not the criteria, MUSIC is.. I prize winners in both the levels will be performing on 26th of NOV at our Annual Day celebrations amidst an august gathering. Nominations/Entries close: 17 Nov 2005 - Please mention the instrument you would like to play.
Please send in your entries by email to artclusture@resilientconsultants.com
Branch of Music:________________________ Carnatic/Hindusthani/western/Others
Field:__________________________________ Vocal/Instrumental( specify the Instrument)
Name of your Guru:______________________
Item to be Performed:____________________ Raga . Thala. Composer
Note: Items should be Classical. Sruthi will be provided at the Venue. Tentative Date of competitions are 20th of November (Sunday). The Venue will be communicated once your nomination or entry is through."
" As a boy, John Travolta dreamed what many have dreamed: that there would be an airplane parked in everyone's backyard. A few have achieved that dream, but hardly any as spectacularly as Travolta. The veteran actor can now walk out of his airport-style home near Ocala, Fla., and hop aboard his personal Boeing 707 for a flight to almost anywhere. Travolta's Florida getaway is at a fly-in community called Jumbolair, which features a 7,500-foot runway. Travolta bought a nine-acre lot for his aviation compound, which includes a house that resembles an airport, complete with a tower-like observation area. "This is a house that says dreams are possible. Everything is possible," his wife Kelly Preston told an Architectural Digest forum at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History last week. The magazine is featuring Travolta and Preston's home on its cover this month as part of a feature on celebrity mansions. Travolta told the forum he took his inspiration for the design of the home from "the beautiful airports of yesteryear." Recently, the facility was the staging area for Travolta's private relief effort for Hurricane Katrina victims, in which he packed the 707 with medical supplies and delivered them to the affected area. And, while a $2.4 million home could be termed extravagant by many people's standards, it's nice to know Travolta's priorities are straight. According to contactmusic.com, the 707 is worth $96 million."
More expansion into North East by Air Deccan. Bookings opened today for following sectors (Ranchi, Raipur, Silchar, Agartala). No wonder, Vijay Mallya recently bought miles from Air Deccan to make up for its regulatory Cat-II/Cat-III shortfall.
Mr P Sainath speaks on Agrarian Crisis and the Role of Media
"National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus Bangalore 560012
P U B L I C L E C T U R E Title: Agrarian Crisis and the Role of Media Speaker: Sri P SAINATH Development Writer and Author Day and Date: Thursday, 10 November 2005 Time: 5.45 pm Venue: J R D Tata Auditorium NIAS, IISc Campus
All are cordially invited - - - -
About the Speaker:
Sri P. SAINATH is Asia's leading development journalist, writing frequently about issues such as poverty and the effects of industrialization on India. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen describes him as "one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger". Through his work on the livelihoods of India's rural poor, Sainath has changed the nature of the development debate in his own country and across the world.
His landmark book, "Everybody Loves a Good Drought," is a devastating portrait of Indian economic policies gone awry.
He received international recognition after he spent two years in the poorest districts in India, reporting about the daily struggles of the citizenry. He covered everything from agriculture subsidies to starvation deaths. That work formed the basis for his book.
Sainath has won numerous awards for his reportage, including the European Commission's Natali Prize in 1994 for articles related to development and poverty as well as working and living conditions of vulnerable social groups. In November 2001, he won the Boerma Journalism Prize from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization -- the most important award in development journalism. - - -"
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It gives me great pleasure to invite you to Power of Choice – a seminar that will showcase our entire range of IBM server and storage solutions.
IBM server technologies have powered some of mankind's greatest achievements, including the quest for life on Mars. Today, we are the leading server vendor in India, with massive growth in the UNIX server market over the last year and the 'No.1' position in the overall server market+ to our credit.
We’re now adding newer and more powerful servers to our existing range. So there’s one that fits the bill perfectly, no matter what your company size, requirements, OS legacy or goals. The range includes entry-level servers at one end and enterprise-class supercomputers at the other. And you’ll be able to see them all at the seminar. There will also be an exclusive session on IBM POWER5 - the most advanced 64-bit processor in the world that's setting new benchmarks for UNIX servers in India.
To view the detailed agenda and to register for the ‘Power of Choice’ seminar, visit ibm.com/in/powerofchoice.
Here’s to a future full of many more great choices.
Yours sincerely,
Alok Ohrie Vice President Systems Technology Group IBM India Limited
"Welcome to the second newsletter of Fourth Corner Group. DO BANGALORE BENGALOORU ISTHYLE!!
Contest this time to win two tickets for NSD production "Seema Par" in Hindi on at Ranga Shankara as part of their festival on Saturday 12 November at 3 pm. http://www.ivcorner.com/contest.htm
Last day for the contest is Midnight of 10, November. Rush your entries with your contact number enabling us to reach you these tickets.
"Time to visit India, where The Rasmus sold Platinum of Dead Letters and are enjoying superstardom. The band fly straight from their gig in Caracas, Venezuela across the globe to India for two shows, each with a capacity of circa 10000 people.
"Last date for entries for GIR 2006 is 10th December 2005. send your entries to RSJ,86/1 First Floor,Shapurjat, New Delhi - 110049 phones: +91 11 26497944 & 26497945. The main festival is 18, 19, 20 February at Hamsadhwani, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. 3 International bands are playing at GIR 2006."
# "RAVE organizes an unplugged session at Barista - St Mark's road every fortnight (Fridays). It's been happening over the last 8 months. It's open for everyone so come over and jam. It's open till about 11pm. If you'd like to play at Barista Unplugged get in touch with:
Matthew matt AT raveindia.com Tel: 51237961 Cheers Matt"
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BEACH TREK – This is Karavali beach or coastal Karnataka. Sheltered by the soaring Western Ghats in the east, embraced by the blue waters of the Arabian sea in the west; and blessed with fertile soil with an annual rainfall of 2500 mm. Karavali is a paradise of amazing virgin beaches, warm blue seas, fast flowing rivers, thick green forests, colorful rituals.
Planning dates - 12th to 13th November’05 Last date for Enroll –1st of November ‘05 (Limited seats-First comes first serve base)
For Programme details and Itinerary please find the attachment. If you require more information call / mail us.
Day 1 11th November '05 7.00 pm Depart from Bangalore
Day 2 12th November '05 6.00 am Arrival at Base camp - 1 for refresh and breakfast 8.30 am Transfer to beach for start of trek Trek (Three and half hours trek) 1.30 pm Arrival at Base camp - 2 for Hot Lunch 1.45 pm Lunch and relax Maximum fun at Base camp -2 Swimming in the sea, Beach valley ball, Frisbee, football, Cricket etc. 8.00 pm Moonlight Dinner on the beach 9.30 pm Start Moonlight trek to Gokarna (Three and half hour trek) Enroute cross-river using Fisherman boat Reach Gokarna Beach by 2.30 pm - Set up for camping and sleep on the beach
Day 3 13th November '05 6.00 am Wake up call A half an hour trek to Hotel 7.00 am Reach hotel at Gokarna Refresh and breakfast 9.00 am Depart to Sharavathi Wildlife Sanctuary Enroute visit - Dodda Mane Water falls, Sharvathi valley view Reach Sanctuary by 1.30 pm Lunch at Sanctuary - Back waters of River Sharavathy 3.00 pm Swimming, Boating and Fun team Activities 5.00 pm Hi tea 7.00 pm Winding up the programme 8.00 pm Dinner and Departure to Bangalore
Day 4 14th November '05 5.30 am Arrival at Bangalore
Activities - Moonlight Trek on beach Day trek on Beach Camping on the beach Fisherman Boat rides Swimming Camping and fun activities at Sharavathy wildlife sanctuary Sight seeing
Cost - Rs. 2,650 per head
Includes - Food - Veg - buffet spread - 2 Breakfast, 2 Lunch, 2 Dinner, Evening Coffee/Tea with Snacks, Equipment, Safety gears, Camping gears - Tents with carry mats, Professional Instructors, Assistant Instructors, First aid kit, Forest permission and charges, Sea authority permission and Transportation.
Not Inclusive - Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, local sight seeing apart from mentioned in itinerary, insurance,
Lire en Fête at the Alliance française de Bangalore 10, 11, 12 November 2005 BE PART OF IT!
"Lire en Fête" : A Festival of Reading
10, 11, 12 November 2005
Share a thought: Read it out!
"Lire en fête"? What is it?
Lire en fête is a 3-day annual festival celebrated mainly in France (since 1988) and now all over the world. This event is an effort towards « Celebrating reading » The actors of the "chain of the book" - authors, translators, editors, booksellers, teachers etc. – are mobilized during these 3 days to organize events and to sensitize the public to reading through various activiti es
It celebrates the spirit of reading and invites everyone (bibliophiles, especially!) to come and share his or her experience of a book, of reading, of writing and of any other literary creation.
We invite you to participate in this important event of Culture with us on 10, 11 and 12 November at the Alliance Française de Bangalore.
How can I participate in Lire en Fête?
The festival is not restricted to just Francophones or students of French language. The festival transcends all linguistic and geographicalbarriers. Anyone with a passion for books or reading is welcome to be a part of any activity during the fête. And when it comes to reading, it could be as simple as reading an excerpt from your favourite book or a poem or why, even a quotation! And don't forget, it could be in any language! Share a thought by just reading it out! All the events are open to all. There's something for everybody
What's happening this year?
The Lire en fête, spread over three days - 10, 11 and 12 November 2005 – at the Alliance Française de Bangalore, has as events:
Photo exhibition:Discover contemporary French writers - the literati of France today. Put up in the gallery area of the institute, the exhibition is open throughout the three days of the festival. There will be a guided tour* of the exhibition on 10 November at 9:00 A.M. and at 5 P.M by the director of the AFB, Mr. Eric Rousseau.
* If you wish a guided tour for a group, please confirm your participation before 9 November 2005.
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Reading:Join us for an open-house reading of texts, poems etc. in the atrium on 10 and 11 November 2005, beginning at 8:30 am, 11am, 5pm and 7pm. Each reading session is expected to last about 30-45 minutes.
And for some actual reading in French, travel around the world as Jules Verne takes you on a fabulous voyage to the center of the earth or plunge into a world of action and adventure as you read the adventures of Lancelot, or (re) discover classics of French literature like Andre Gide's 'La symphonie pastorale' or Mérimée's 'Carmen' and for all lovers of theatre, Molière's 'Le misanthrope' or Racine's 'Bérénice' or Corneille's 'Le cid' or just revel in the simple fables of La Fontaine or allow your sensations to be tickled and refreshed as you read Philippe Dellerm's 'La Première Gorgée de la bière' (burp!) or test your knowledge of French by participating in 'The Little Prince' contest' on the audio-stations that are going to be specially set up for the occasion .
And relish Hugo (or any writer of your choice) over coffee and croissants as a special reading area will be set up near the Café Paradis of the AFB .
And don't miss an enriching evening of reading (Bring your own texts as well, since we shall share our thoughts...) with the celebrated writer Anita Nair on 11 November at 7:45 PM. (auditorium)
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Book Sale:Head for the auditorium to pick up books, magazines etc. (in French) for a song throughout the three days of the festival (if stocks last, because the early bird…!)
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Film Festival:"Book-what they make a movie out for television" said Leonard Louis Levinson. Don't despair if you have been unable to read some of the greatest classics of French literature ever as they will all come alive when we screen:
(i) CARMEN on 10 Nov. 2005
(ii) TIME REGAINED on 11 Nov. 2005
(iii) MADAME BOVARY on 12 Nov. 2005
All the films (in colour and with English subtitles) will be screened in the auditorium at 10:30 A.M. See synopsis of the films just below this note :
Besides screening of fictional films, there will be a separate projection of video documentaries on some of France's most popular contemporary writers like Michel TOURNIER, Claude SIMON, Georges PEREC, Raymond QUENEAU, Françoise SAGAN etc. Please refer to the programme listing of the day at the venue .
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CARMEN(Duration: 2H29min): Based on the acclaimed novel of Prosper MÉRIMÉE (one of the spearheads of the Romantic Movement in French literature), Carmen is a French opera by Georges BIZET. It was first performed at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. During its time, the opera was considered a failure, denounced as "immoral" and "superficial", but now is an important part of the standard operatic repertoire that simply cannot be dismissed.
The Spanish gypsy, Carmen lives only for sensuality. Love drives her from passion to passion. After she has loved many, she is attracted by the sergeant Don José, encompasses him with her wiles, and leads him to mutiny and desertion, so that finally nothing remains for him but to join a band of smugglers of which Carmen is a member. His fate is endurable as long as he retains the love of Carmen, but when she turns from him he is sunk in a pit of grief.
TIME REGAINED (Duration: 158 min.):
An adaptation by renowned director Raoul RUIZ,– the film is based on the novel Temps Retrouvé (from the last of the series, A la recherche du temps perdu) by one of the greatest literary giants ever – Marcel PROUST.
Year 1922, Marcel Proust on his deathbed undergoes the metaphysical experience of reliving his life as characters from his book rekindle lost memories and juxtapose with real life characters and together, they slowly spill over into the real world. From the cocooned world in his little appartment on Rue Hamelin, he is led down memory lane, as joyous days of his growing years alternate sublimely with tender memories of his literary and social life. The entire drama of war is magnified through the Parisian society around him and in this ever increasing labyrinth of images, the viewer gets a peek of the great 'human comedy' and the society that was to form after the war.
MADAME BOVARY (Duration: 136 min.): This is a stunning film of Gustave FLAUBERT'S classic novel Madame Bovary by the French director Claude CHABROL. This book that raised a scandal (after publishing a few controversial excerpts in a periodical, Flaubert had to go on trial to be allowed to publish the rest of the novel!) was first published in 1857 and is now regarded as one of the first modern Realistic novels.
The story is about a provincial doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and who lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of modern life. Her repressed existence in 19 th century bourgeois France forces her to seek out romance and danger. This classic film of love and deceit is a must-watch for anyone seeking to better understand the intrigue of human relationships.
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Note:
1. Lunch break : 1 pm-3 pm
2. Contact : Rahul on 51 23 13 40/44/45/46 for more information.