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NR 16| The Messenger Sail : 20-05-14 Tuesday
Report:- 20-05-14 Tuesday Today I visited Orissa state Library collecting thing about Chilika. Here I find some beautiful poems written around 18th to 19th century. Here I read Kabibar Radhanath ray and Utkal Mani Gopabandhu […] May 20, 2014, Jyotiranjan Jena

NR 16 | The Messenger Sail :An art project protecting Biodiversity of Chilika-Lake
May 17, 2014, Jyotiranjan Jena

Call for applications: OF GAMES II | Gaming Residency at Khoj
Residency Dates: July 28th– 7th September, 2014 Application Deadline: 10th June, 2014 Please send your applications to ‘gamingresidency@khojworkshop.org’ Khoj invites proposals for ‘OF GAMES II’, a six-week international residency for artists working with games as […] May 14, 2014, Sitara

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways V
The fifth edition of the Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways project brings with it a series of projects and proposals from across the country that look at issues of ecology, society and community. This […] May 12, 2014, Sitara

Online references
Just starting to create a list of organizations, which have shown their on ground commitment and large knowledge base they have created around their projects. One of the first to list is Tarumitra Ashram, from […] April 1, 2014, akshay

A new series of Photographs on feeling food
In January while being in India, i was missing the feel of culture in more ways then one can define visually or textually. I went round and round, not knowing how to grab it, how […] March 26, 2014, akshay

Why exactly we should not trap ourselves with the idea of Urban Farming?
I believe many problems of the city are of rural origin, food being one of them. In a developing and expanding city like Delhi, food has to be viewed through many lenses….Land/Labor/Knowledge being just few […] March 25, 2014, akshay

Home grown organic vegetables: The new fashion in Urban Bourgeoisie
Again, as we discussed Commodification of Organics and Green Farming, especially in Urban centers, here’s another addition. Smartly packed, certified and labeled organic vegetables planted and potted, ready to be shipped home and start giving […] March 25, 2014, akshay

On Urban farms as commodity
It was very interesting to hear at the Khoj meeting the ideas of organic and small urban farms being commodified in India. Agat mentioned a very new inititative of a Jaipur based company selling small […] March 25, 2014, akshay

Green: The color of Cultural Capitalism
After the discussion at how everything gets commodified so fast, even the idea of sustainbility, organic and green living, i cant help but to point to a very interesting angle Mr. Zizek provides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g March 25, 2014, akshay

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