Blogbharti received a message from Shilpa Shah, of Indicorps, announcing Fellowships for ‘aspiring young leaders’ to work on public service projects. Here’s the gist:
Indicorps, a non-profit organization that offers opportunities for aspiring young leaders of Indian-origin to engage in intense grassroots development projects through one or two-year public service fellowships. We are currently recruiting soon-to-be [...]
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Indicorps Fellowships
Published by March 2nd, 2008 in Activism, Announcement and Development. 6 CommentsThe Spotlight Series returns..
Published by February 14th, 2008 in Announcement, Blogging and Spotlight Series. 0 Comments….tomorrow. With new bloggers and new posts. And, we promise you, it will be as interesting and thought-provoking as earlier.
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On Taslima Nasreen and Free Speech
Published by February 13th, 2008 in Announcement, Democracy, Government, Human Rights, Literature, Religion and Women. 1 CommentA public statement by Mahashweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, Ashish Nandy, Girish Karnad, (amongst others) on Taslima Nasreen that I found here:
At a time when India is projecting itself on the world’s stage as a modern democracy, while it hosts international literary festivals and book fairs, the Government of India, most mainstream political parties and their [...]
Demand for the establishment of Sexual Harassment committees
Published by February 9th, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Prejudice, South Asia, White Ribbon Campaign, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsThe blogosphere has been largely silent on the Patan Gang-rape incident except for Atrocity News which covers incidents on Caste atrocities.
From news reports,
“The victim said she was gang-raped at least 14 times during the last six months in the college laboratory and computer room, where she was summoned under a threat that her career would [...]
D.D. Kosambi Festival of Ideas
Published by February 1st, 2008 in Announcement, History and India. 2 CommentsGoa is hosting a festival of ideas in memory of the great Indian mathematician and historian, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi between the 4th and 7th of Feb. The programme is as follows:
4th February :1. Hamid Ansari , Vice President : Inaugural Lecture – DDK’s Thoughts on Peace2. Meera Kosambi : DDK - the scholar and [...]
Social Entrepreneurship competition- The Piramal Prize
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Announcement and Health. 1 CommentA message from Naman Shah, representing the Piramal Foundation, an’ NGO pursuing social enterprise development in India’, which has recently announced a social entrepreneurship competition, The Piramal Prize, ‘focused on democratizing health care in India’- here are the details:
What: The Piramal Prize a $25K Social Entrepreneurship Competition focused on democratizing health care in India
Goal: [...]
Gujarat Chunaav aur Gaurav.Simple si cheezein.
Published by December 12th, 2007 in Activism, Announcement and India. 0 Comments{click on the ribbon}
This is a message circulated in public interest by the
White Ribbon Campaign for Peace(India).
Write to Anasuya Sengupta or Raheema Begum at apsidalobe@gmail.com
Blogbharti presents - The Spotlight Series
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Announcement and Spotlight Series. 8 CommentsStarting today we present “The Spotlight Series: Different views, different voices”, a collection of essays on contemporary and relevant issues. Our guests include some of the finest thought-provoking writing talent from, but not limited to, our blogosphere.
The essays will be posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can find them under the “Spotlight” page as [...]
Identify Yourself Gujarat!
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Community, Democracy, Government, Human Rights, India, Justice, Prejudice, Secularism and White Ribbon Campaign. 2 Comments
During this Gujarat Assembly Election 2007, we all need to ask ourselves some very important questions.
[click on the ballot box]
We turned one today, so happy birthday to us!
Over the past year, our effort has been to highlight voices with as diverse views as possible. These are interesting times for India and as blogging gets more and more popular, there will be more voices on the same issues. And more voices on new issues. We [...]
Common Tags for all Gujarat posts
Published by October 29th, 2007 in Announcement, Appeal, Blogging and Justice. 0 CommentsDina has a suggestion:
Citizens for Peace, has issued a press statement and written several letters to senior members of different political parties. There are tons of blog posts popping up too where bloggers are expressing strong sentiments against the Gujarat government. I’m also a little shocked at the strange quiet around this on the English [...]
We moved servers some time ago and if you see this post, it is on the new hosting servers of BB. That part went without any noticeable hitches. But as some of you have noticed, Blogbharti’s feeds seems to be pointing to that of Times of India! Perhaps God is conspiring to bring down BB. [...]
Uma tells us about it:
On this special day, Citizens for Peace, in partnership with Times of India, is planning a Peace Mela - an evening dedicated to creative expressions of the striving for peace through music, song, poetry, dance, drama, films and more. The Peace Mela will be held in Mumbai (at the Horniman Circle/Asiatic [...]
You might not be able to see/access Blogbharti for a couple of days, starting tomorrow, because we’re changing servers. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Kirubasankar writes on Blognation India about the recent open source software camp in Delhi.
The event saw over 40 presentations and an attendance of over 200 participants. The participants included Senior Technology Professionals, CIOs, Product Evangelists, Technology Teachers, Tech Journalists, and Students. The event was modeled after BarCamps which have been quite popular in India.
Can Alternative Energy Power India’s Future?
Published by September 9th, 2007 in Announcement, Environment and Health. 1 CommentSanjay Panda explores the possibilities and obstacles to alternative energy in India:
In India, the privatisation of oil exploration has also created a huge anti-alternative energy lobby led by oil companies such as Reliance, Essar Oil and Videocon, in cahoots with auto companies. A sign of their power came when New Delhi recently withdrew a Rs [...]
Venky explains how India stopped Microsoft’s sub standard OOXML proposal
Coming back to India, I am extremely proud of the fact that my country has voted against this proposal. To accept such a poor document would have been to denigrate the very meaning of “standards.” The academia, the government bodies, industry organizations and non-profits like [...]
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Hot News: India says no to proprietary Microsoft standards
Published by August 23rd, 2007 in Announcement. 0 CommentsRemember the post by Anivar Arvind we linked earlier? We have good news now. Venky points out that India has said NO to OOXML format. Congratulations to all those who fought hard to maintain open standards.
Red Hat is a voting member of this committee and I had the privilege to represent the company on this [...]
The Impact of FSF India
Published by August 21st, 2007 in Announcement, Democracy and India. 0 CommentsBlue GNU has an interview with a representative of Free Software Foundation Group in India.
Sasi Kumar, a member of FSF India’s Working Group, spoke with Blue GNU about the organization’s past, present and future, and shares how they have impacted India.
Manipal Institute of Communications is hosting a one- day seminar on 22nd July (Sunday), a week or so before the birth centenary of the great historian and mathematician. Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi was born on 31st July 1907.
A one-day seminar in English will be held at Manipal Institute of Communication on 22nd July 2007. Some well-known [...]
The key question in the tech and biz circles these days revolve around how to better utilize the facebook social network. In this increasingly facebook world, what could blogbharti offer to visitors who are members of facebook? This question led to the creation of Blogbharti facebook group. We expect this group to be a medium [...]
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Venky talks about his interaction with Eben Moglen, one of the architects of GPL3. He discusses various initiatives taken with regards to FOSS in India
We spoke about a number of things that will become common knowledge once the Software Freedom Law Center unveils its plans for India. Before, coming to Delhi, Eben had spent [...]
Bloggers meets in Mumbai and Delhi
Published by June 7th, 2007 in Announcement and India. 0 CommentsIn a coincidence of sorts, bloggers across Mumbai and Delhi are meeting up over the same weekend.
In Mumbai, Sakshi and Melody have called for a Bloggers Meet tomorrow, Saturday, 9th June, 7.30pm onwards at Seijo, a night club in Bandra.
In Delhi, the Bloggers Meet takes the form of a history walk (I am so envious [...]
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