News from CED, December 2005

NEWS FROM CED: DECEMBER 2005

Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas, a joyous & prosperous New Year! This is the year's last newsletter ....

ONE MORE LAUNCH FROM CED

This time we are pleased to announce the launch of a twenty-four page backgrounder, which will focus on a specific issue each month. We are launching with issue - Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ). These backgrounders are available in Tamil and English. For a copy please email nalini@doccentre.net

FILMS

NAMMA KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI (Our Coast, Our Right)
Tamil, 54 mins, PAL VCD Colour
A film explaining the Coastal Regulation Zone, and the economics and politics of its implementation from the point of view of the Local Communities. This film is aimed to educate local communities. It is a part of the series of AV materials on issues related to Tsunami. The film is accompanied by the above mentioned backgrounder in Tamil that provides more references to other information on CRZ. The main aim is to promote the right to information, and people’s right to know, determine and participate in their own development particularly their re-development/rehabilitation.

LANDSCAPE FOR RAINWATER
Duration 26 mins - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D
A huge and beautiful archaeological site in Hampi, Karnataka, shows aspects of Indian cities in late 15th early 16th centuries, it shows ruins of tanks, water channels and aqueduct shows how Indian people succeeded in using a passive and complex system so that rainwater was sufficient for all their water needs.

For copies of the film please e-mail us at: cedban@doccentre.net or cedbom@doccentre.net

RDC WEBSITE

Do visit our website on issues related to Tsunami and the rehabilitation and reconstruction process. It also looks at livelihood issues in and around the affected areas in South India. This website is part of a project that we are working on, Reconstruction for Development, in conjunction with A & D, Praxis and ISED. So log on to www.rdc.net.in

DIGITISATION OF ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

We just wanted to update you about the 'behind the scenes' work that we have been doing. One year through the digitisation process of the archives of Newspaper Clippings, Journals and Newsletters, we have come close to digitising 46000 articles on issues ranging from Sustainable Built Environment, Development & Social Change, Education, Localization & Local Markets, New Economics, NGOs and Voluntary Action, Urban Issues, Adivasis and Forest Rights, Media & Social Change, Gender - Theories, Violence against Women, Women & Work, Labour policies & Migration, Secularism and more ...

CEDs COMPILATIONS

Just to remind you of all our other monthly outputs and the great discounts that you can get when you subscribe to more than one. We have Legal Rights, Critical Concerns, Habitat and Disasters. All are important as well as informative and produced in a way that is easy for you to keep and refer to. For subscription and more details check here

FROM GOVINDPUR TO ANANTPUR

From 6 to 9 December, CED participated in the Govindpur IV conference, which was held at the RDT Ecology Centre in Anantpur. It was very interesting for all of us to be a part of this conference as it was done using 'Open Space Technology(OST)'. It proved to be a very interesting and stimulating time for all and it was nice to meet old friends and make new ones.

IN THE LIBRARY

New additions to the library this month are:

Films
Hands On 1-Water Ways
Fate Worse Than Floods
Water-Every Drop Counts
Thar:Secrets Of The Desert
Harvest Of Rain
Water Wars I, II & III

Books
Unravelling Bhakra-Assessing the Temple of Resurgent India by Shripad Dharmadhikary. Price:Individual Rs. 150/- & Institution Rs. 300/- (write to us for copies)
Manifesto for Making Another World Possible! by Bovy, Yannick
Alternative Economic Survey, India 2004-2005 - Disequalising Growth by Chaudhary, Akhilesh and Deshpande, Anjali
Their Own - A Socio-Legal Investigation of Inter-Country Adoption in India by Dhanda, Amita and Ramaswamy.
Dalits in Dravidian Land - Frontline Reports on Anti-Dalit Violence in Tamil Nadu (1995-2004) by Viswanathan, S.
In Search of an Identity - An Ethnographic Study of the Siddis in Karnataka by Prasad, Kiran Kamal

Reports
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 by Ministry of Law and Justice
Breastfeeding - A Reproductive Health and Rights Issue by Menon, Lakshmi and Amin, Sarah
First Peoples Education Congress on Science Communication by Peoples Council of Education
Assuring Livelihoods and Empowering Poor - A Case for National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, National Centre for Advocacy Studies.
Streamlining the Agricultural Supply Chain Sivakumar, S.
The Size and Growth of Agribusinss Sector in India by Ramaswamy, Bharat and Singh, J B
Unshackling Rural Markets Gopalkrishnan, R
Young People and Gendered Media Messages by The International clearing House.

Over 25 films, 40 books and 10 reports have been added to the library. Check the full list of here