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August 2008
Sarai Newsletter-August 2008
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Fellowship@Sarai
FLOSS Fellowship Final Presentation
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Films@Sarai- Noir Trends
August- September
MEMENTO
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
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SPELLBOUND
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The films will be curated by Anita Cherian
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Dear Readers,
After a brief summer break, the Sarai newsletter returns. This August we begin with the FLOSS Fellowship summary presentations. We are also reviving our Friday afternoon screenings from the third week of this month with shows of critically acclaimed films depicting the criminal underworld and cynical characters.
Hope you will access the particulars announced and make yourself available for the events.
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo@sarai.net
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Fellowship @Sarai:
FLOSS Fellowship Final presentation
Date: 9th and 10th of August
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
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Films @ Sarai: Noir Trends
Curated by Anita Cherian
MEMENTO, 2000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Length: 113 mins
Language: English
Date: 22nd August, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, 2007
Director: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Length: 123 mins
Language: English, Spanish
Date: 29th August, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
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SPELLBOUND, 1945
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming
Length: 111 mins
Language: English
Date: 5th September, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
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[[CONTENTS]]
Fellowship@Sarai
FLOSS Fellowship Final Presentation
----------------------------------------------------------
Films@Sarai- Noir Trends
August- September
MEMENTO
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
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SPELLBOUND
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The films will be curated by Anita Cherian
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Dear Readers,
After a brief summer break, the Sarai newsletter returns. This August we begin with the FLOSS Fellowship summary presentations. We are also reviving our Friday afternoon screenings from the third week of this month with shows of critically acclaimed films depicting the criminal underworld and cynical characters.
Hope you will access the particulars announced and make yourself available for the events.
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo@sarai.net
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Fellowship @Sarai:
FLOSS Fellowship Final presentation
Date: 9th and 10th of August
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
The Independent FLOSS Fellowships enable programmers to research and develop different kinds of open source software-based applications. Typically, these are projects of concrete and practical value, especially for social and educational ends. They are also the kinds of projects that would not usually find support in formal, institutional or market-driven settings, either because of the intent / nature of the goal or because of the 'open' nature of the knowledge thus produced/created.
The FLOSS Fellowships seek to tie software developments into existing requirements for software within the social sector, and support the writing and dissemination of well-researched technical papers in key areas of research.
In 2007, Sarai had a total of nine fellowships awarded, in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation which funded six of the scholarships. Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) provided support for work in the specific area of computing, and localisation in five Indian languages, namely, Assamese, Hindi, Kashmiri, Oriya, and Urdu.
The FLOSS Fellowships seek to tie software developments into existing requirements for software within the social sector, and support the writing and dissemination of well-researched technical papers in key areas of research.
In 2007, Sarai had a total of nine fellowships awarded, in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation which funded six of the scholarships. Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) provided support for work in the specific area of computing, and localisation in five Indian languages, namely, Assamese, Hindi, Kashmiri, Oriya, and Urdu.
The summary workshop-presentation is a forum for fellows to present their work to the larger community. All are invited to take part in enriching discussions.
The Sarai- CSDS FLOSS Fellows 2007:
Sawood Alam, et al: Urdu localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.
Anand Kulkarni: Localisation of guides to OpenOffice, and other software in Marathi, and Urdu.
Sachin Joshi, Venkatesh Keri: Speech-to-text in Hindi, with application to other languages.
Rakesh Pandit, et al: Localisation of the GNOME desktop in Kashmiri.
Dr. N. M. Pattnaik, et al: Two fellowships for technical glossary in Oriya.
Ravishankar Shrivastava: Hindi localisation of a FOSS computer desktop.
C. S. Yogananda, and D. Shivashankar: Publishing in Indian languages using TeX, applicable to all major Indian languages.
Amitakhaya Phukan: Assamese localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.
Sawood Alam, et al: Urdu localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.
Anand Kulkarni: Localisation of guides to OpenOffice, and other software in Marathi, and Urdu.
Sachin Joshi, Venkatesh Keri: Speech-to-text in Hindi, with application to other languages.
Rakesh Pandit, et al: Localisation of the GNOME desktop in Kashmiri.
Dr. N. M. Pattnaik, et al: Two fellowships for technical glossary in Oriya.
Ravishankar Shrivastava: Hindi localisation of a FOSS computer desktop.
C. S. Yogananda, and D. Shivashankar: Publishing in Indian languages using TeX, applicable to all major Indian languages.
Amitakhaya Phukan: Assamese localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.
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Films @ Sarai: Noir Trends
Curated by Anita Cherian
Anita Cherian teaches at the Department of English, Indraprastha College for Women. She's interested in the study of Policy and Performance, and, is working on a book length project which develops her doctoral dissertation. She has an interest in film that transcends genre, but favors work that is stylish and challenging.
The films Anita has chosen for the current series combine stylistic sophistication with moral ambiguity. The three films, though separated in time are linked by their thematic concern with identity, memory, guilt, revenge/ exemplary punishment; their unforgiving dissections of character; their exploration of black comedy; and their mastery of craft.
The films Anita has chosen for the current series combine stylistic sophistication with moral ambiguity. The three films, though separated in time are linked by their thematic concern with identity, memory, guilt, revenge/ exemplary punishment; their unforgiving dissections of character; their exploration of black comedy; and their mastery of craft.
MEMENTO, 2000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Length: 113 mins
Language: English
Date: 22nd August, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
Memento is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori." It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary. Leonard suffers from anterograde amnesia, which he contracted from severe head trauma during the attack on his wife. This renders his brain unable to store new memories. To cope with his condition, he maintains a system of notes, photographs, and tattoos to record information about himself and others, including his wife's killer. He is aided in his investigation by Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), neither of whom he can trust.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, 2007
Director: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Length: 123 mins
Language: English, Spanish
Date: 29th August, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
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SPELLBOUND, 1945
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming
Length: 111 mins
Language: English
Date: 5th September, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
Drawing on psychoanalysis to frame a transcendent love story, Alfred Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND is a mind-bending study of just how far people might go to escape trauma or to pursue passion. The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
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