Film Screenings in June
We showed 'Charandas Chor' in collaboration with Children's Film Society, India to an almost packed auditorium on Monday. A lot of people told us they loved the film. Some posts on our Facebook Event page: "superb beautiful simple and yet so deep, what fun ! Thank you !" and "Attended yesterday at Prithvi. A simple masterpiece by a Master Shyam Benegal!!!!!!!!!"
If you'd like to buy a copy of the film (DVD for Rs 150), visit http://cfsindia.org/marketing2.htm
And now for some information on films that will be screened in India in the month of June:
'Apour
ti Yapour. Na Jang na Aman. Yeti chu Talukpeth.' ('Between Border and
the Fence. On Edge of a Map.') by Ajay Raina, June 1 and 8, 10:30 pm,
Doordarshan News Channel
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2/message/9707
'Muriel, or the Time of a Return' by Alain Resnais (French), June 1, Bombay
http://bombay.afindia.org/node/3533
'Buntat na L.' ('L's Revolt') by Kiran Kolarov (Bulgarian), June 1, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/buntat-na-l.php
'Fresh Water Man' by Antonio Albanese (Italian), June 1 and 4, Delhi
http://bit.ly/lr087L
The Biodiversity Film Festival, June 1-4, Delhi http://cmsindia.org/biodiversity.php
Short Films presented by Bombay Elektrik Projekt, June 2, Bombay
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191550960892830
'Cinema City' - 7 Films curated by Madhusree Dutta, June 3, Chennai
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2/message/9720
Short Films presented by Shamiana, June 3, Ahmedabad http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147744261965266
'Laya Project' presented by The Root Reel, June 4, Bombay http://on.fb.me/iOl2Qr
'I Am' by Sonali Gulati, June 4, Chennai
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2/message/9716
Films on Environment at EcoFestival 2011, June 5, Delhi
http://krititeam.blogspot.com/2011/05/ecofestival-2011-program-schedule.html
Films on Environment at the WED '11 Festival, June 5, Delhi http://wed11.eventbrite.com/
'Still Life' by Jia Zhang Ke (Mandarin), June 7, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/still-life.php
'La Fille du RER' ('The Girl on the Train') by André Téchiné, June 8, Bombay
http://bombay.afindia.org/node/3535
'That's Life' by Aldo and others (Italian), June 8 and 11, Delhi http://bit.ly/lr087L
'Winter Light' by Ingmar Bergman (Swedish), June 9, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/winter-light.php
'A Bout de Souffle' ('Breathless') by Jean Luc Godard (French), June 10, Delhi
http://delhi.afindia.org/node/3655
'Cours du Soir' ('Evening Classes') and 'Parade' by Jacques Tati (French), June 15, Bombay http://bombay.afindia.org/node/3537
'Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic' by Robert Flaherty, June 15, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/nanook-of-the-north.php
'If I Were You' by Giulio Manfredonia (Italian), June 15 and 18, Delhi
http://bit.ly/lr087L
Vikalp@Alliance presents 'Partners in Crime' by Paromita Vohra, June 16, Bombay
http://bombay.afindia.org/node/3539
Short Films presented by Friends of Cinema, June 16, Bombay
http://www.ncpamumbai.com/event/kalpana-june-2011
'Les Diaboliques' ('Diabolique') by Henri Georges Clouzot (French), June 17, Delhi
http://delhi.afindia.org/node/3657
'Les Meduses' ('Jellyfish') by Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret (French), June 21, Bombay http://bombay.afindia.org/node/3545
'L'Enfant Prodige' ('Child Prodigy') by Luc Dionne (French), June 22, Bombay
http://www.ncpamumbai.com/event/child-prodigy
'French Cancan' ('Only the French Can') by Jean Renoir (French), June 24, Delhi
http://delhi.afindia.org/node/3659
Short Films presented by Shamiana, June 25, Delhi http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films.php
Vikalp@Prithvi Screening of 'Arna's Children' by Juliano Mer Khamis, Monday, June 27, 7 pm, Prithvi House, Juhu, Bombay http://www.arna.info/Arna/movie.php
'Humain, Trop Humain' ('Human, Too Human') by Louis Malle (French), June 27, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/human-too-human.php
'An Inconvenient Truth' by Davis Guggenheim, June 28, Delhi
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/films/inconvenient-truth.php
French Film Festival, June 28-29, Delhi http://delhi.afindia.org/node/3666
Short Films presented by Shamiana, June 30, Pune http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19747943933
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Weather disasters in the poorest nations 'have trebled since 1980s'
The number of weather-related disasters reported each year in the world's poorest countries has more than trebled since the 1980s and the increase cannot be explained by better reporting or an increase in population, a study by Oxfam has found.
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Monsoon 2011 onset over Kerala - A Meteorological analysis
Subject: Monsoon 2011 onset over Kerala - A Meteorological analysis
India Meteorological Department has objective criteria for declaring the onset of monsoon over Kerala. The Meteorological analysis of various features of Monsoon 2011 vis-a-vis the criteria is given below.
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SAARC drafts disaster response agreement
The Inter-governmental Meeting to finalise the text of the draft SAARC Agreement on Rapid Response to Natural Disasters concluded in Male last Thursday with a broad agreement on the issue that needed to be addressed.
According to the global database on disasters, over the past forty years, South Asia faced as many as 1,333 disasters that killed 980,000 people, affected 2.4 billion lives and damaged assets worth $105 billion. These totals are, by far, the highest among the recorded disasters in various geographic regions.
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Operation for a Polio-Affected Boy in Bombay
My son Master Suraj Patil ( age 17 yrs) has polio in his leftleg. The leg was a little bent. It was operated three times and a steel rod was inserted. After 5 years of operation, due to a fall while playing he was again hurt and ankle got twisted and started paining,When shown to Dr. Mangal Parihar at Mangal Anand Hospital, Chembur, Mumbai, ( Maharashtra, India) he advised for another immediate operation. The cost Including operation charges & hospitalisation etc. is estimated around Rs. 1.5 lacs.
My meagre salary in no way will be sufficient to meet this huge expense. Voluntary donations from generous people will only rescue my child from this major handicap and I earnestly pray for help.Those who are desirous of extending financial help, can send the money directly to my Bank A/c. No. 43010400004862 with IDBI Bank, Thane Branch ( Maharashtra) or by cheque in favour of Ramachandra B Pail at Room NO. 6, Gajanan Krupa Society, Shingre Wadi, Bail Bazar, Kurla (W) Mumbai 400070, Maharashtra, India.
Thanks & Regards,
Ramachandra Patil
09967514226.
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[GiveIndia.org - Spreading a giving culture] We are listening to you...
As part of an exercise to review our Listing criteria, we conducted a donor survey in April 2010. One key result of the survey was that many of you said that you would like us to visit an NGO as part of our listing due diligence process.
We have therefore decided to make a visit mandatory for our listed as well as pipeline NGOs from this year onwards. To cover the increased cost of making visits we are now increasing the listing donation from Rs. 7,500 to Rs. 14,000. The additional cost of Rs. 6,500 is intended to cover the average cost of travel, stay and honorarium of the assessors.
We have incorporated two more changes in our Listing criteria as a result of the findings from our survey:
* Earlier no religious or political organization could list with us. However we observed many such organizations working for the benefit of poor without bias of religion/caste/race/tribe. Hence we have now decided that religious and political organizations can apply for listing as long as funds raised through GiveIndia are used by those NGOs for non-religious/non-political purposes.
* Earlier organizations had to demonstrate that 50% of the beneficiaries in their programmes came from the poorest of poor segments of society. However this was found to be too restrictive and did not allow organizations with less than 50% poor beneficiaries to be listed with GiveIndia. So we have changed this criteria so that organizations applying for listing must ensure that 100% beneficiaries of donations received through GiveIndia are poor - irrespective of its total beneficiary pool
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Nitish ask Centre to take up Kosi issue with Nepal
Nitish Kumar also added that the Himalayan nation is not doing enough on that front.
"The Centre should immediately take up with Nepal the issue of strengthening and protecting the embankment in the wake of forceful stoppage of work in Nepal and digging of a pilot channel to re-establish the central flow of the river to avoid undue pressure on both the western and the eastern embankments," Kumar said in Patna on his arrival from Birpur in Supaul district.
If the digging of the channel did not resume, he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and urge them to take up with Nepal measures to strengthen the embankment on the Kosi river to prevent floods in Bihar, he said.
Kumar was talking to the media on his arrival from Birpur where he reviewed at a high level meeting the progress of the ongoing strengthening work.
"This year too, Nepal has simply not done enough to strengthen embankment of the Kosi river on the western side (in Nepal)," he said.
Read The complete Story at cdrn.org.in
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Monsoon rains hit mainland two days early
India's annual monsoon rains have hit Kerala two days earlier than expected, weather officials said on Sunday, boosting prospects for a harvest that could spur Asia's third-largest economy.
For more info go through cdrn.org.in
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Random Hacks of Kindness #3 At Bangalore is here and You are Invited
Random Hacks of Kindness #3 At Bangalore is here and You are Invited
On June 4th and 5th, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA, HP and the World Bank, through their initiative Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), will bring together thousands of people in over 18 locations around the globe to create open solutions that can save lives and alleviate suffering. Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges.
Events are planned around the globe, including Hartford, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and Silicon Valley in the United States and international events in Toronto, Canada, Aarhus, Denmark, Basel, Switzerland, Berlin, Germany, Bangalore, India, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kampala, Uganda, Lusaka, Zambia, Melbourne, Australia, Nairobi, Kenya, Trento, Italy, and Santiago, Chile.
During past events the volunteers have worked on applications that are already making an impact. I’m OK, an SMS service that lets people inform their families of their status, was used on the ground during the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile in 2010. The World Bank is piloting CHASM, software for visualizing landslide risk, in the Caribbean. Other apps have received support and interest from governments, NGOs and international organizations around the world.
"Climate change adaptation and building resiliency to disasters are closely linked,” said Zoubida Allaoua, Director of Finance, Economics, & Urban Development at the World Bank. “This event is a unique opportunity for experts in climate and disaster resiliency to collaborate with volunteers in developing open technology that has an impact on the developing world. We are grateful to RHoK's corporate partners for driving this initiative as a contribution to their corporate responsibility programs."
“Microsoft was founded on the belief that software can change the world and Random Hacks of Kindness is a shining example of how we can all come together to make a difference,” said Mark Hindsbo, Vice President of Developer Evangelism at Microsoft. “We are very honored to be a part of this passionate community that codes to make a better world and are very happy to support it”
"Google is very excited to see Random Hacks of Kindness accelerating innovation, collaboration, and the development of open technologies to help make the world a better place,” said Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research, Google. “We look forward to the really great code that results when programmers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World bank join forces with other members of the community to hack for humanity."
“HP is committed to applying our technology, expertise, and dedicated volunteers to support and contribute to the prosperity of people and communities around the world,” said Gabi Zedlmayer, Vice President, Office of Global Social Innovation, HP. “With this grant, we are proud to support Random Hacks of Kindness and help foster collective innovation.”
“A volunteer technical community like Random Hacks of Kindness is an incredible resource,” said Elizabeth Sabet from SecondMuse, RHoK’s operational lead. “Through RHoK, development experts can draw on a wealth of creativity and brainpower in responding to real world challenges, while hackers have a chance to put their considerable skills to work for the greater good.”
“As another example of How Good Grows at Yahoo!, we’re proud to support Random Hacks of Kindness because it’s an opportunity to give individuals the tools to change the world,” said Erin Carlson, Sr. Director, Yahoo! for Good.
"NASA encourages RHoK developers to utilize open data sets to create cutting edge applications that can help solve global challenges" said Linda Cureton, Chief Information Officer at NASA. "We are excited to support RHoK and explore new ways that NASA data can help the world."
Participants are required to Register at http://rhokbangalore.eventbrite.com
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Poor girl became victim of Fraud and forgery by Victoria International Public School
Poor girl became victim of extortion from School management. One School extorted fees for two years and one school for half year. The certificate provided by one school about passing of +1 exam is useless. She paid for two and half years fees, Bus fees and addition to it the charges for extra coaching. The school extorted money and provided forged document of passing of 10+1 class which is useless. Now she is running from pillar to post to get justice but in vain.
The representations to the authorities have also been made
As
Complaint U/S 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 for For defrauding and forgery. But no action has been taken so far.
Kindly suggest the way out.
Regards,
Rajneesh Madhok
Phagwara: Date May 23, 2011
1. The Chairman & Chief Vigilance Officer Mr. Vineet Joshi, IAS
Tel. 91-11-22023737, 22467263
CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
SHIKSHA KENDRA, 2 COMMUNITY CENTRE
PREET VIHAR, DELHI- 110092
2. Affiliation, Administration and Scholarship Matters
Dr (Mrs) Veera Gupta
Secretary Tel. 91-11-22549627, 22549628
Email: secy-cbse@nic. in
3. Examination Matters M C Sharma,
Controller of Examination
Tel. 91-11-22515828
Email: mcsharma.cbse@ nic.in
4. CBSE - REGIONAL OFFICE, DELHI
PS 1-2, INSTITUTIONAL AREA, I.P. EXTN., PATPARGANJ, DELHI - 110 090, Tel: 91-11-22239177- 80, Fax: 22248883
Email: chmn-cbse@nic. in
5. Regional Office
Central Board of Secondary Education, Sector- 5 , Panchkula - 134109 (Haryana)
Haryana,U.T. of Chandigarh, Punjab, J&K, Himachal Pradesh.
Tel: 91-172-2585163/ 2585193
Fax:91-172-2585193
6. The Director General School Education
Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan,
SCO-162-164, Sec-34 A,
Chandigarh.
7. Victoria International Public School,----- ----Respondent
VPO Chachoki ,G.T. Road,
Phagwara-144401 (Pb)
Ph: 01824-261744, 223821, 223824,
Fax: 01824-223821,
E-mail: vipsphagwara@ gmail.com
8. Kamla Nehru College for women,
Plahi Road,
Phagwara
Subject::
· · COMPLAINT UNDER SCHEDULE 15 OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION ACT, 2009. UNDER THE ACT NO CHILD SHOULD DISCONTINUE EDUCATION BECAUSE OF DELAY IN ISSUING THE TRANSFER CERTIFICATE.
· · STUDENT WANT TO TAKE ADMISSION IN PUNJAB SCHOOL EDUCATION BOARD SCHOOL BUT SCHOOL NOT ISSUING TRANSFER CERTIFICATE.
· · RIGHT TO EDUCATION IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT BUT SCHOOL IS DEPRIVING STUDENT FROM HER FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS.
1. 1. Complaint against Victoria International Public School regarding Non-issuance of School Leaving Certificate / Transfer Certificate & extorted fees for two years on illegal parameters.
2. 2. Due to delay in issuance of Transfer Certificate Student will lose this academic year also.
3. 3. New School from which the student wants to apply not admitting without Transfer Certificate from School in which she studied earlier.
4. 4. As per State Department of Public instructions guidelines the schools should not delay the TC-issuing process. Even if the student requests for a TC in the middle of the academic year. The school should consider it as an emergency and issue the TC immediately.
5. 5. If the negligence in issuing the TC, the Principals of both schools, that is from where the TC is needed and the school that the child wants to join will be held responsible.
R/Sirs,
It is humbly submitted that the complainant is a resident of V &P.O. Dhesian Kahna Tehsil Phillaur, Distt. Jalandhar. Hence is competent to invoke the right of life and liberty.
I am fighting struggling to get justice and there is high scale violation of the human rights from Victoria Internation Public School, G.T. Road, Phagwara. The under mentioned details are the proof of continuous harassment. The facts of the case are as following.
1. 1. That the complainant has been the student of said Victoria International Public School, Phagwara and appeared in March 2009 vide Roll No. 2188271 in 10th class through that school in CBSE, Secondary School Examination 2009 and got compartments in Mathematics and English Comm Papers.-- Annexure Page 1
2. 2. That the student was admitted to the next class by Victoria international public School in +1 from April 2009 and collected fees and other charges from the student.
3. 3. That the student appeared in Aug 2009 in one subject of Maths whereas the school collected examination fees from the student for appearing in two subjects. As English language subject was not compulsory to clear so the school collected Examination fees for two subjects but sent fees for one subject to CBSE.
4. 4. That in Aug 2009 exam conducted by CBSE the student could not qualify in the said paper of Maths.
5. 5. That in March 2010 the student cleared the exam of Secondary Education vide Roll No. 2175660 and the certificate of Pass issued on 28-05-2010 but the said certificate has not been delivered to the student. –Annexure Page 2.
6. 6. That the student keep on visiting the office of school to get the result card, one day the school directed her to visit office of CBSE, Panchkula to get the result card. On numerous visits she was told that her certificate will be sent to her home address.
7. 7. The Certificate issued by CBSE certifying that the student has qualified the Secondary School Examination of the board held in March, 2010. –Annexure –Page-3-
8. 8. That the Regional office Central Board of Secondary Education, Sector 5, Panchkula (Haryana) sent the Result card which was delivered to student on 4th Jan 2011. Annexure Page 4 with postal stamps of delivery of document.
9. 9. That on the basis of compartment candidate the student got admission in Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara in +1 class in April 2010.
10. 10. That as the result of compartments in Maths and English was declared in May 2009 which the student could not qualify. The student was directed to visit to Victoria International Public School by Kamla Nehru College for women to file examination form to Reappear in 10th Class.
11. 11. That on visit to Victoria International Public School the school management forced the student to get admission in their school if she wants to get her forms filled up for appearance in exam. The admission in the School was given in Mid session and the student has to pay fees for complete session to Victoria International Public School, Phagwara and half session to Kamla Nehru Public School, Phagwara.
12. 12. That in March 2010 the student passed +1 exam conducted by Victoria International Public School, Phagwara and the result declared vide Admission No. 1825 declared by School. Annexure Page –5 to 7.
13. 13. That on passing the said exam the student got admitted in +2 class in April 2010. As the result card of 10th Class has not been in the possession of the candidate the candidate had been harassed to bring the said card from CBSE to appear in +2 exam.
14. 14. That on visit to CBSE office at Panchkula the student was told that she can not appear in +2 exam in this session as she has passed 10th Class exam in 2010 as per record and there should be a gap of one year in appearance in +2 exam. But the Principal, Victoria Interantional Public School who has collected fees for 10+2 Admission fees, Tuition fees and examination fees of Rs 600=00 do not admit the instruction of CBSE says that the student can appear in 10+2 class of CBSE.
RELIEF SOUGHT:
1. 1. Victoria International Public School, Phagwara refused to give School-Leaving Certificate/ Transfer Certificate AND NOT REFUNDING This is UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES. Kindly direct the school to issue School-Leaving Certificate / Transfer Certificate as the said school has withheld the Transfer Certificate on flimsy grounds and refund the fees collected from the student for the current session and past session.
2. 2. No dues certificate and Transfer Certificate kindly be issued immediately.
3. 3. Harassment casued to student and parents kindly be duly compensated with Rs 1,00,000.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Raman Deep Kaur,
VPO Dhesian Kahna,
Tehsil Phillaur,
Distt. Jalandhar Punjab,
Pin: 141311
Ph: 01826-270096, 98147-004493
Through: Rajneesh Madhok,
B-xxx/63, Nehru Nagar,
St. No. 2, Railway Road,
Phagwara-144401 (Pb)
Ph: 01824-262569 (O), 268210 (R), 094173-06415 (M)
Tele-fax: 01824-262569, E-mail: rmadhok_pgm@ bsnl.in; rajneesh_madhok@ yahoo.com
DETAILS OF FEES PAID IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Annexed as per available record
SNo Date Institution Receipt No. Amount Class Affiliation
1 12/06/2009 Kamla Nehru College for women 4130 4320=00 +1 Arts Punjab School Educ Board,
2 07/09/2009 Victoria Int Pub School 3009 2000=00 10+1 Arts CBSE
3 09/09/2009 ---do--- 3115 10425 10+1 Commerce CBSE
4 09/09/2009 ---do----- 3116 1500=00 10+1 Comm CBSE
5 11/11/2009 ---do--- 4330 2950=00 10+1 Comm CBSE
6 11/11/2009 ---do--- 4331 2000=00 10+1 Comm CBSE
7 03/05/2010 -do- 948 4200-00 10+2 Commerce
· The Principal and Chairman kicked out the student and her mother and not provided Transfer Certificate on their pleadings that the girl child can appear in +2 exam in Punjab School Education Board.
· School management fraudulently keep on receiving fees and other charges from the student and till date not provided the information that the forged document of passing of +1 class has been provided to student.
· Is there anybody who can hear the voice of poor child who has been wailing for help at this hour of need.
· The administration is shielding the school and the poor child is not getting justice.
· Kindly examine the averments made for the child and the chracter of the Educational institution.
· The question in this case is that whether in the light of cumulative facts as established by the student and furnished the documentary evidences, the official machinery works with the financial background of the child, and administration has lost eyes and ears or they are dominating the society by the controlling powers beyond expectations.
· Whether every authority will dismiss the plea and will guide to take liberty to seek remedies elsewhere. The poor child don't afford to get remedies in courts and be harassed because she and her mother are living with her old grand father. Her father has gone abroad in gulf country and earning livelihood to meet two ends meal.
Kindly take in to consideration the above mentioned points.
Regards,
Rajneesh Madhok,
Well wisher of a poor child and pray to God to provide justice to her.
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Medical Missions Kenya Volunteer Physicians and Nurses needed
We are organizing medical missions to have our fellow nurses and doctors volunteer for 10-15 days at Kenyatta National Hospital Please please volunteer to travel to Kenya with us. There is also an optional trip to go on safari and see the wildlife of Kenya, or to travel to the islands near Mombasa for an Indian Ocean experience. If you are a doctor or a nurse, please volunteer your time and skills on our medical missions to Kenya. The experience will change your life. Medical missions are from 10-15 days with an optional safari experience.
If you have ever wanted to travel to Kenya and enjoy the wildlife, see the safari and enjoy the Kenyan culture, here is your chance to do all the above and still help the Kenyan people. Email us at volunteer@medicalmissionskenya.com for an application.
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