Writings from CED Family and Friends

Writings from CED Friends

All people associated with CED feel strongly about something -- in fact about a lot of things. Some write and are published. Others just write.

Here is a compilation of writings, formal or otherwise, published or not, on issues which concern CED. You are welcome to send your stuff. Its free.. as in free beer, as well as in freedom.

You are also invited to send your papers. If the documentation/research paper or publication is along the priority areas of CED, we will publish it on this website.

Artisanal weavers struggling to survive [ www.Indiatogether.org, 09 September 2008]
India has made cotton fabrics for 20 centuries, and its scale in India was unimaginable. But modern market structures have pushed millions to the edge, and a few intense efforts, such as those of Dastakar Andhra, are not enough to reverse this...

Uzaramma's talk at the Centre for Education and Documentation (CED). After decades of working in this sector and also researching it in archives at home and abroad, combining practice and theory, she feels the need for an organisation like the CED to document and disseminate the findings on how traditional cotton weavers can have a future - while scores of them are committing suicide in her home state, in Maharashtra and elsewhere...

A poem by Varavara Rao "Lucky"

Adrian Saldanha

Some reflections on agenda of Development funding agencies

Rajni Bakshi

Timbaktu Organic is scaling up [December 2006]
Imagine...
Mindful Markets - A presentation at the National Stock Exchange Annual Day Mumbai, October 21st, 2005
Gross National Happiness, Jan/Feb 2005, Resurgence Issue 228
Bapu Kuti se Bazaar ki aur: ek khoj, Outline of talk,Gandhi Jayanti, 2004, Gandhi Peace Foundation
Is Bazaar mein Bapu Kuti, 13 Nov, 2004, Sahara Times
Alternative Economics (LETS make it happen)
The Long Haul: Textile Workers Strike
The legacy of Vivekananda

Manjulika Vaz

Networked Organisations: Lessons from Case Studies in the area of Interorganisational-effectiveness

Alternative Law Forum

New Indian Patent Law, A Sell Off
Copyright/Copyleft: Myths About Copyright by Lawrence Liang, Atrayee Mazmdar and Mayur Suresh

Venkatesh B

Poverty and Disability

Ram Mohan

MDGs and India in 2005 – Significance of the U. N. International Year for Sport & Physical Education

Walter Mendoza

Wither NGOs (The Long and Winding Road)

John D'Souza

Role of Documentation Centres in the Voluntary Sector for Social Change, Indian Journal of Social Work, Jan 2004
Open & Accessible Information Structure (www.govindpur.com)
Documentation Centres (People's Action)
Mid-life Crisis: Stray Thoughts on NGOs (Voices)

last updated 11/10/2008
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