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Flashback! by Yashoda Singh and Lakhmi Chand Kohli, January 2005 (In Hindi/हिंदी में)
A presentation by Yashoda Singh and Lakhmi Chand Kohli, writers and practitioners with the LNJP and Dakshinpuri Labs, respectively, at the Pukar Institute, Bombay, in January 2005.
सायबर मौहल्ला की शुरुआत हुई आज से 4 साल पहले यानि सन 2001 में। शुरु में उसकी प्रक्रिया थी तरह तरह से शहर को देखना और लोगों को जोड़ना। अपने आस पास दबी हुई कहानियों को उभारना और एक ऐसी जगह बनाना जहां लोग अपने किस्से कहानियों को एक दूसरे से बांट पांए। एक ऐसी जगह खुद से बनाये जहां उनकी बातों की गर्माई हो,और वो अपनी बैचेनी को एक दूसरे से बयां कर सकें। शुरु में कुछ सोच और समझ थी की शहर को कैसे समझा जा सकता है पर हम शहर को बदलना नही चाहते, हमारी बस यही सोच है की हमारे आस पास का माहौल और शहर कैसे एक दूसरे से जुड़ता है? धीरे धीरे शुरुआती दौर में बदलाव आने लगा। पर अब जुड़ाव के साथ फैलाव भी जुड़ गया है।आज सायबरमोहल्ला के फैलाव मे कई परतें चढ़ चुकी हैं।
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Our Own Space by Neelofar, May 2004
An introduction to a locality lab, written by Neelofar (May 2004). Neelofar is a writer and practitioner with Cybermohalla since October 2001. She was the lab co-ordinator of the LNJP lab from 2004 to 2006.
The Compughar (Locality Lab) is our own space. We write and share our texts with one another. Conversations, through which we share our ways of thinking and experiences, help expand and deepen our thoughts. Apart from writing, we also do sound recording, digital and analogue photography, and make animations as well on Free Software Image Manipulation Tool, GIMP. We've also learnt a lot about how computers work. The Compughar is an open space. Rules and boundaries don't become binding or defining. Things are allowed to reveal and unravel slowly. If one were doing a computer course somewhere, or a sound recording course, a photography course, there would a strict definition of what comes in the purview of each. But that's not how it is here.
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Readings at the launch of the publication, Book Box, October 2003
What is Cybermohalla by Shamsher Ali
My name is Shamsher. I work with the Compughar at LNJP. Today I want to share with you some reflections on what Cybermohalla is about.
A lot goes on at the Compughar, even when it looks like there is very little activity. Writing texts is one of the things we do here. We also talk. And we debate a lot. And when it's not these things, there is a lot else - conversations with the elderly, interviews about the place where we live, this social universe where there are many laws laid down for us, though we don't know by whom. We also make animations on the computers, with the mouse as our play mate. And sometimes we take photographs of our world. In this last, we find the opportunity to caress our memories and feel happy. And so our world of memories also find a world of their own. Relationships of a special nature get formed in this way. Through the Compughar, we got the opportunity to travel outside the colony. We stopped being hesitant, and felt a sense of openness through dissolving boundaries. And through this we realised there was a world outside, where there were people just like us. Just like us, they have questions, and though there are answers to these questions, these answers remain unacknowledged. Sometimes we imagine the Compughar in ways completely different from this one, through different terms. And thinking of the Compughar anew in this way, do something new in it! The constants that remain are texts, sounds, images.
A lot goes on at the Compughar, even when it looks like there is very little activity. Writing texts is one of the things we do here. We also talk. And we debate a lot. And when it's not these things, there is a lot else - conversations with the elderly, interviews about the place where we live, this social universe where there are many laws laid down for us, though we don't know by whom. We also make animations on the computers, with the mouse as our play mate. And sometimes we take photographs of our world. In this last, we find the opportunity to caress our memories and feel happy. And so our world of memories also find a world of their own. Relationships of a special nature get formed in this way. Through the Compughar, we got the opportunity to travel outside the colony. We stopped being hesitant, and felt a sense of openness through dissolving boundaries. And through this we realised there was a world outside, where there were people just like us. Just like us, they have questions, and though there are answers to these questions, these answers remain unacknowledged. Sometimes we imagine the Compughar in ways completely different from this one, through different terms. And thinking of the Compughar anew in this way, do something new in it! The constants that remain are texts, sounds, images.
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About the Compughar, Babli Rai
At the Compughar, where we work, there is no course. There isn't any software either which tells us our future!
When I first came to the Compughar, I was told I would be taught by people my age. I didn't quite like this! It was only after I spent some time here that I began to understand what goes on inside the lab!
When I first came to the Compughar, I was told I would be taught by people my age. I didn't quite like this! It was only after I spent some time here that I began to understand what goes on inside the lab!
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On Thinking (Edges of Questions) by Raju Singh
My name is Raju. I have been with the Compughar for an year now. I want to read before you some of my thoughts on my peer Shamsher Ali's text, "The Edges of Questions". I have named my text "My thoughts on 'The Edges of Questions'."
Day before yesterday, at around ten at night, I was sitting in my room with the Book Box in my hands. I opened the box and pulled out a red coloured book from it. It was titled, "Method is that heavy thing that makes everything light". I looked at the tilte, read it and started to think, "This is a good title, and also quite captures how things are". Then I opened the book and the first text before me was Shamsher Ali's, The Edges of Thought. I like this text. I have already read it twice or thrice before, but this time I wanted to write my thoughts on it, so I read it three times. On reading it thrice I felt as if Shamsher Ali was sitting in front of me, telling me about the edges of thought.
Day before yesterday, at around ten at night, I was sitting in my room with the Book Box in my hands. I opened the box and pulled out a red coloured book from it. It was titled, "Method is that heavy thing that makes everything light". I looked at the tilte, read it and started to think, "This is a good title, and also quite captures how things are". Then I opened the book and the first text before me was Shamsher Ali's, The Edges of Thought. I like this text. I have already read it twice or thrice before, but this time I wanted to write my thoughts on it, so I read it three times. On reading it thrice I felt as if Shamsher Ali was sitting in front of me, telling me about the edges of thought.
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