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CAN WE NOW TURN OUR GAZE INWARDS

the institutionalised and internalised form of corruption is inbuilt in the conduct & practice of professions in India. It is so impregnated and long standing that one has ceased to even recognise it as corruption...- Extract from an email from Sanjay Nagral

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The Dispute Over Swami Vivekananda's Legacy: A Warning and an Opportunity

by Rajni Bakshi

Published by: The Other India Press

Author's Preface
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This series began with a gathering at Bapu Kuti, Sewagram Ashram, in January 1993. Veteran Gandhians and young admirers of M.K.Gandhi had come to commemorate J.C.Kumarappa' s birth centenary and share notes on struggling for non-violent and sustainable socio-economic structures.

Over six or seven days, some of us were blessed with those rare flights of imagination and hope which occur by a seemingly magical conjunction of people, place and spirit. The base for these winged journeys was Gandhiji's home and the dreams it houses. Yet the flight path also took us dose to Swami Vivekananda's ideas about work in rural India.

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Writings from CED Associates

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