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Asha Achuthan has an interesting series of posts over at the CIS website, a work in progress that she writes will:lay down the historical and geo-political contexts for the use of technology in Indiaengage with existing concepts like context, postcoloniality, organicity, and exclusion that have come into use with the critical responses to ...

All kinds of excitement at the Indian Institute of Management these days - first Barcamp, now the TGC workshop. The workshop will be collaborative and interdisciplinary, and will address: (a) information architectures in e-­governance (b) epistemological and political issues of governance and citizenship (c) broader questions at the ...

A lot is happening in Kerala on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) right now, which seems to be a result of lobbying by FOSS advocates, a few key government figures being open to FOSS (and subsequently some heavy communication between the government and RMS), and the ability of the Communist government to implement change quickly. Talking to ...

I made my first trip out the field office yesterday, an hour or two outside of Bangalore. The drive out was the usual Bangalore traffic experience - bad roads, traffic jams, noise, and several near-death experiences. Slowly, though, the noise hushed, and my workmate Hari told me that the roads we were on were often blocked by elephants, a ...

The best conferences/events, for me, are those that have a good mix between the topics that I'm already interested in and areas that are unexplored ground. The Food Sovereignty seminar was good in that respect - the discussions about GM crops and zero-budget agriculture was fairly familiar, whereas the details of the Indian agricultural ...

I'm currently taking advantage of NIAS's wifi to post quickly about the food sovereignty seminar. Yesterday's session was an excellent mix of perspectives, theory, and case studies. There seems to be a general perception among the participants that India is experiencing a crisis in agriculture, evidenced by decreasing food grain output, increasing ...

I'm in India at the moment, doing a short internship with the GREEN Foundation, sponsored by the Patrick O'Brien Political Science Graduate Internship Award. I've been to India for three months before, doing fieldwork for my PhD, but it's still rather a shock to the system. My flight was late arriving, so I ended up sleeping in Bangalore airport ...

Article published in Agenda, a South African feminist journal, in issue #73: 'Women and Biotechnology'.

Paper presented at the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) Conference in Bangkok in 2006.