
Girl song The film looks at the life of Anjum Katyal, a Kolkata blues singer, drawing on her poems and songs. In her interactions with her mother and her daughter, we see how a cultural identity proudly woven from many strands is increasingly under threat from narrow and exclusionist definitions of identity. Directed by- Vasudha Joshi Awards - Honourable Mention, The International Association of Women in Radio and Television Awards, 2005

Blatant Racism in Internet Marketing The Internet Marketing world is extraordinarily white and exclusionist. The time has arrived to address blatant and implicit racism on the Internet. This short message is a call to arms.

The Grokking Of Paradigms The Grokking Of Paradigms, As Essential To The Litigation Of Contracts. A Reply To "Questioning Faith" ~ by HD ******************** Greetings my fellow monkeys, apes and simians. This is a blanket reply to HonestDiscussioner's video; "Questioning Faith", and to several of the video's comments. Thank you Hallcyon, for implying that I should contribute my opinions to the conversation. Something we often want to ask the religious, is "What color are the trees on your world?". A facetious and rhetorical question, true, but still apt in its metaphor, for good reason. Belief systems are the structure, the paradigm. Faith is the self binding commitment to that structure. Re-ligio; a return to the binding, is somewhat synonymous with faith because following the guidelines of the structure, and re-affirming vows in practicing its rituals, is like the signing of a contract, that you will vary as little from those guidelines as you are able to. The grokking of paradigms should be an inseparable subject from rational discussions on faith, for without the paradigm, there is nothing to have faith in. All humans have paradigms, no doubt as an inheritance from our rodent ancestors, who had to have had a road map in their minds of their warrens, to navigate in complete dark. It is the vital essence of the human talent of pseudo-prescience. In the virtual world of the mind, a paradigm memory can be pictured as a lattice, laid down in a four dimensional grid, by the ritual induced ...

24. Refashioning the State, 1688-1714 Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) In this lecture, Professor Wrightson discusses the transformation of the English state in the twenty years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He examines the ambiguities of the Revolutionary Settlement which placed authority in William III and Mary II following the deposition/abdication of James II, and the manner in which parliamentary government was strengthened through responses to the demands of the wars precipitated by the revolution, culminating in the constitutional provisions of the Act of Settlement of 1701. Finally he considers the origins and outcomes of the 1707 Act of Union which fused the kingdoms of Scotland and England into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and ends by briefly characterizing the paradoxical realities of the British state of 1714. 00:00 - Chapter 1. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 07:28 - Chapter 2. Settlement 12:25 - Chapter 3. War 16:15 - Chapter 4. The Financial Revolution 34:17 - Chapter 5. Scotland Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.

IGRMS INIDAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONGRESS -2010, IGRMS, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, National Museum of Mankind INIDAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONGRESS -2010 February 21-23 Background Development is one of most debated words in contemporary social science discourse as there could be endless levels and goals and means and therefore meanings of development The perceptions of development thus vary as scholars and interest groups take varied standpoints which could be located within and without the liberal democratic order. Discourses on development vary because some view that wellbeing of the citizens is the responsibility of the state while others view it to be the responsibility of the agency, the collectivity or the society, which enjoy autonomous existence. World anthropology and Indian anthropology have never tried to free themselves from the concerns of development and wellbeing of the people and at the same time have never tried to evolve a monolithic definition of development, anthropology has always upheld: let peoples and communities decide their courses of development. But peoples and communities can choose their development paths only when they have freedom of choice and adequate control over the human and material resources. Both globally and nationally anthropology had to confront the liberal orders and liberal paths of development, particularly the adverse impacts of development on the tribal and ethnic communities. Apparently the liberal democratic order is inclusive and integrationist but in ...

Mass conversion Dalits shift faith. Mumbai: In what could be one of the biggest mass conversions in the country, thousands of tribal and Dalit Hindus are to embrace the Buddhist faith at a huge gathering in Mumbai on Sunday. To mark the Golden jubilee of dalit icon Dr Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism, lakhs of followers will converge at Mumbai's Mahalaxmi racecourse on Sunday to give up their religion. The event will be presided over by the Dalai Lama. They want to embrace Buddhism because it is a free religion. it is open to all. It preaches non violence and is not divided on basis of caste, said Ramdas Athavle, leader, RPI. October 14, 1956 was a historic day when over 3 lakh dalits led by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar rejected Hinduism's caste divisions and embraced Buddhism. 50-years hence lakhs of Ambedkar followers will once again renounce the religion they were born to. The number of dignitaries who attended the pre Buddhism ceremony—a precursor of Sundays event, confirmed Dr Ambedkars iconic status. Even as Dalit leaders hope, that the resurgence of Buddhist conversions also converts into political mileage, Ambedkar followers try and remind others their leader's real appeal. This would be the first ever mass conversion where millions of people will change their religion without any promise of money, or political power, Narendra Jadhav, Vice Chancellor, Pune University said. With the number of dalit atrocities across the country on the rise, perhaps it's time for the religion they leave behind to reconsider ...

A Humanist Reflection on 9/11 Tufts Freethought Society's president Stephen Goeman reflects on how nonreligious individuals respond to terrorism & Islamaphobia. Transcript below: I'm Stephen Goeman, President of the Tufts Freethought Society, and I am a secular Humanist. The Humanist Manifesto describes Humanism as a lifestance that, without supernaturalism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. Humanism has no shared text, and few discernable public faces. As such, we are left to find solace and resolution in times of tragedy through introspection. This afternoon, I will reflect on how the nonreligious find inspiration in the religious pluralism which has developed in the wake of the September 11th devastation. Like most people I know in the class of 2013, I was only 10 when the attacks of September 11th took place. What I remember most is asking my teachers and family members how and why this could happen, and the resulting silence. The authority figures in my life could barely rationalize the loss for themselves, let alone to someone in grade school. My father, now the Commander of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, was absent for months on end aiding the fight against a vague enemy, the rationale for which I didn't understand. It took years to comprehend the loss and our nation's reaction to it. At the ten year mark, we seem to have accomplished closure. Osama bin Laden has been brought to justice and America has ...