Our Pictures, Our Words: A Visual Journey through the Women's Movement By Laxmi Murthy and Rajashri Dasgupta

Book Release Our Pictures, Our Words: A Visual Journey through the Women's Movement By Laxmi Murthy and Rajashri Dasgupta
with a discussion led by:
MAITHREYI KRISHNARAJ, former director, Research Centre on Women's Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai "The women's movement, women's studies and the media" LAXMI MURTHY, consulting editor, Himal Southasian "Images of Change: A Selection of Feminist Campaign Posters" SARITA SUNDAR, designer and partner at Trapeze, Bangalore. "Visualizing Our Pictures, Our Words" PADMALATHA RAVI, Associate Editor, Citizen Matters, Just Femme "Women's Liberation Today: How relevant?" [TBC] "Feminism: A View from the Y Chromosome" AMMU JOSEPH, independent journalist, Bangalore, will moderate the discussion

HONOUR FOR ASIATIKA , ASIATIC SOCIETY PUBLICATION

HONOUR FOR ASIATIC SOCIETY PUBLICATION
As Society members may remember, in 2004, during the Bi-Centenary year of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, heritage walks were conducted in the Asiatic Society and various outreach events were held under the project ASIATIKA .
Subsequently the ASIATIKA team brought out a collection of 21 essays with black and white photographs titled ZERO POINT BOMBAY: IN AND AROUND HORNIMAN CIRCLE.
Edited by Kamala Ganesh, Usha Thakkar and Gita Chadha and published by Roli Books in 2008, the book was released at the Society at a function on May 8, 2008 by Deepak Parekh. The editors had made over the royalty rights to the Asiatic Society.
Now there is a piece of good news. This book has been included in the list of 10 best books set in Mumbai by the London based newspaper GUARDIAN.
Details can be found in the under mentioned link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/01/top-10-books-mumbai-india?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

National Human Rights Commision's award scheme for books /creative writing in Hindi

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi-110001
BIENNIAL AWARD SCHEME FOR CREATIVE WRITING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN HINDI, (2010-2011)
National Human Rights Commission invites Hindi books/manuscripts (original or translated) under "Biennial award scheme for Creative writing on Human Rights in Hindi" in a bid to encourage creative writing in Hindi on various subjects pertaining to Human Rights. Total number of words in each book/manuscript should be at least 30,000. Last date for sending the entries is 31st December, 2012.
Under this scheme Three awards of Rs. 50,000/-, 40,000/- and 30,000/- will be given for Ist, 2nd and 3rd prizes, respectively, for writing books in Hindi and three awards of Rs. 30,000/-, 25,000/- and 20,000/- for Ist, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively, for Hindi translation of standard books on Human Rights.
The details of the above scheme and application form can be down loaded from Commissions Website www.nhrc.nic.in or obtained free of cost by post or by Fax No. 011-23384863 from the Assistant Director (OL), National Human Rights Commission, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi-110001.
URL: http://www.nhrc.nic.in/Documents/Creative%20Writing%20Advertisement100212.pdf