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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma
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Newsletter I<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma’s monthly newsletter contains information
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about new contributions to the archive (videos and writing), featured videos
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lists, announcements, Pad.ma projects and events, etc. This month, we bring you
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eight new video collections (55 new videos), a public call for Pad.ma
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fellowships, some highlights from the archive, and a new and updated ‘How to
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use Pad.ma’ guide. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">For Pad.ma, this is the beginning of a new phase of
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content development<b>. </b>It is also in
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anticipation of a new software framework and interface (expected in summer
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2010), which will make working with Pad.ma easier and more rewarding.
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Meanwhile, we welcome your contributions (video, text or thoughts) to this
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growing public collection of material. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma is </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">an
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interpretative web-based video archive, which works primarily with footage and
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not finished films. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma creates access to material which is easily
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lost in editing processes, in the filmmaking economy, and in changes of <span>scale</span> brought about by digital technology. Unlike Youtube, the
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focus here is on annotation, cross-linking, downloading and the reuse of video
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material for pedagogy, research and reference. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">For more, see <a href="http://pad.ma/about" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/about</a>. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>>>
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What’s new <<< <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">> <b>Theatre Jam <br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">In
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October 2009, Maraa, a media collective from Bangalore, did a 31-day marathon
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of performances in public spaces, in an effort to reclaim them for artistic
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expression. Theatre workshops, photography exhibitions and poetry readings took
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place in parks, markets and cafés. An on-going series that begins to document
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Maraa’s interventions in the city. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1i" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1i</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Politics of Change<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Annemie Maes, an artist and researcher from Brussels,
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started the Politics of Change project when she visited Barefoot College,
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Tilonia, Rajasthan, in 2008. Maes was struck by the similarity between the
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bottom-up approach of the solar engineering programme for rural Rajasthani
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women and her own artistic practice at Okno, an organisation that works on
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collective technological research projects. Maes has uploaded to Pad.ma her
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film <i>Mahila</i>, video questionnaires from PoC workshops, and interviews with
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Rajasthani and African solar engineers, and friends and colleagues from
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Brussels.<br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1e" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1e</a><span> <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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People’s Panchayats against Homophobia<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Action Plus, a network of 14 organisations working on
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HIV/AIDS in India, organised People’s Panchayats on stigma and homophobia in
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Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Delhi in early 2009.<span> </span>Forefronted were the voices of
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survivors and resistors from sexual minority communities. Point of View,
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Mumbai, documented these panchayats: depositions, testimonies, audience
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responses, and the jury’s ‘verdict’ at the end. A large and growing collection
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of voices. <br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1j" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1j</a><span> <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Lectures from CSCS, Bangalore <br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Lectures from the ‘Culture and Democracy’ course at the
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Centre for the Study of Society and Culture (CSCS), Bangalore. These lectures
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were recorded in 2007 and invited speakers included Ashish Rajadhyaksha, M.
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Madhava Prasad, S. V. Srinivas, Sitharamam Kakarala and Vivek Dhareshwar.
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Welcome to the online, annotation-friendly classroom. Stay logged in for future
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classes. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Currently published: <br>
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M. Madhava Prasad’s ‘Enthusiasm and Indian Politics: Problems in the Analysis
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of Aural Culture’<br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/Vedx0jjp/info" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/Vedx0jjp/info</a><br>
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Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s ‘Cinematic Governance’ <br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/Ve2iazfj/info" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/Ve2iazfj/info</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Motornama Roshanara<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Rides through the industrial district around Roshanara Road,
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Delhi. Tours on cycle rickshaws with rickshaw wallahs as narrators and guides.
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Narratives of automation, pollution, labour and the closure of famed repair
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industries. All this across a landscape characterised by lost middle-class confidence, new
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migrants, old machines, bodily risk and emerging eco-politics in the city of
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Delhi.<span> </span>A project by Shaina Anand
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and Ashok Sukumaran, as part of 48deg. C, Delhi, 2009. <br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/Vhmchrdp/info" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/Vhmchrdp/info</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Al Jaar Qabla al Daar (The Neighbour before the house)<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">A series of video probes into the landscape of East
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Jerusalem. Shot with a security camera, these videos attempt to overflow the instrumental
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aspects of surveillance imaging.<span>
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</span>Looking from one’s home, obsessively or longingly, becomes a way of
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narrating over the architecture of a city in conflict. A continuing project by
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CAMP. This is footage from one location in Jerusalem. More from other neighbourhoods coming soon.<br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/Vs7c6mni" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/Vs7c6mni</a><span> <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Wharfage<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Wharfage is another on-going CAMP project, which, in 2009,
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looked closely at Sharjah port from where a large number of wooden boats or
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dhows leave for Somalia. This movement of goods and sailors maps out a
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landscape of new and used objects, labour, Asian and African migration and
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oversized dhows now being built in Gujarat. <span>Hakimuddin
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Liliyawala</span> spent time on Sharjah creek, documenting the loading and
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unloading of the dhows, and wrote over these images. Nida Ghouse and
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Radhamohini Prasad did a follow-up visit to Jam Salaya, to meet sailor friends
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they had made in Sharjah. <br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1d" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1d</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">> Pad.ma Meta<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">On February 16, 2009, Pad.ma was launched as a public
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website. We had a day-long event in which people who have been engaging with
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Pad.ma, made presentations about their use of the archive. Presenters included
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Sanjay Kak, Agaaz, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Ayisha Abraham, Sadanand
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Menon, and Priya Sen, among others. This collection has videos of these
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presentations and documentation of other Pad.ma events. <a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1m" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1m</a> <br>
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For a report on the Pad.ma 2009 event, see: <a href="http://camputer.org/event.php?this=padma09&tab=optBtn2" target="_blank">http://camputer.org/event.php?this=padma09&tab=optBtn2</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>>>
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Pad.ma Highlight <<<</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma’s commitment to
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making video footage publicly available has motivated us to recirculate
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material under fair use. Contributors have uploaded clips from Hindi films to
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Pad.ma and more importantly, annotated them critically. This has created a
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innovative space for film studies on the web, where ideas and timelines can
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come together. Some examples: <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Queering Bollywood</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> <br>
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A selection of some coded queer moments in seemingly mainstream and
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heteronormative Indian films. A collection of queer readings of such moments.
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And a database of video clips, film titles and articles on queer
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representations in cinema. This video selection, put together by Namita
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Malhotra, has clips from films like <i>Sholay</i>,
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<i>Sadak</i>, <i>Utsav</i>, <i>Silsila</i> and <i>Mera Naam Joker</i>.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">User
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contributions to this database are invited. Write to <a href="mailto:padma@pad.ma" target="_blank">pad.ma@pad.ma</a> <br><a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L10" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L10</a> <span><br></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Cinematic Cities and Citizenship<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Cinema constructs national consciousness: citizens and
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denizens, centres and margins. Cinema archives the urban: planners and
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gangsters, ambivalent modernities and urban villages. And cinema opens a virtual
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window to the world. All for eight rupees – at least it did till some time ago.
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A virtual tour of the city and the citizen in cinema with Lawrence Liang. <br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1h" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1h</a><span> </span><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">> <b>The sex worker in Bollywood</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">These clips
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from films like <i>Amar Prem</i>, <i>Umrao Jaan</i> and <i>Mandi</i> as well as the more recent <i>Julie</i>, <i>Chameli</i> and <i>Sadak</i>, explore the popular concern with
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and presence of the sex worker in many Hindi film genres (commercial, art
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house, historical and B-grade). The depictions traverse a range of
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characters, including gharwalis and pimps to name a few.<br>
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<a href="http://pad.ma/find?l=L1q" target="_blank">http://pad.ma/find?l=L1q</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>>>
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Announcements <<<</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
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Fellowships</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma invites applications
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for fellowships from individuals and organisations interested in <br>
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contributing footage from a film or research project<br>
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<span> </span><span> </span>>
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annotating and researching material already in Pad.ma<br>
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<span> </span>>
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experimenting with new ways of interpreting and using videos in the archive<br>
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Fellows will be offered honorariums and interested persons can write to <a href="mailto:padma@pad.ma" target="_blank">pad.ma@pad.ma</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">>
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Pad.ma @ Home Works , Beirut</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Pad.ma will conduct a two week workshop and day-long colloquium </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">at </span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Home Works V </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">in Beirut,
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Lebanon, from April 12-25, 2010. Titled ‘Don’t Wait for the Archive: Archiving
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practices and futures of the image’, this workshop/colloquium seeks to discuss
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the archive as neither a fixed concept nor as unbounded potential, but as a
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concrete set of negotiations, costs, transactions, tools and imaginations that constitute
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it. A key question will be: Is there something, in the density of our contemporary
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experiences in Bombay, Bangalore, Beirut or on the internet, that can lead to a
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shared theory of the archive, which goes beyond its dominant canons? For more, see
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<a href="http://www.ashkalalwan.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ashkalalwan.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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Technical Tips for Pad.ma <br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Feeling daunted by the Pad.ma interface? Can’t figure out
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how to browse, search, upload or download videos, transcribe or annotate? Or
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why you just can’t open Pad.ma in Internet Explorer? Fret not. The up-to-date
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‘How to Use Pad.ma’ guide is here: <a href="http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/HowTo" target="_blank">http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/HowTo</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">This newsletter was compiled by Pad.ma’s Content
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Coordinator, Subuhi Jiwani, with the support of Zinnia Ambaripadwala, Pad.ma's Technical
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Coordinator. Send your feedback and comments to <a href="mailto:subuhi@pad.ma" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">subuhi@pad.ma</span></a>
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or <a href="mailto:padma@pad.ma" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">pad.ma@pad.ma</span></a> <br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The Pad.ma project was initiated in 2008 by Oil21 from
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Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum from Bangalore, Majlis, Point of View and
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Chitrakarkhana/CAMP, Mumbai.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">To receive the Pad.ma newsletter, send a mail to <a href="mailto:padma-announce-subscribe@pad.ma" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">padma-announce-subscribe@pad.ma</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;"></span></p>
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