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Just thought I would add my response to the Sunday – Theatre Jam. It really was a great feeling to be around at Nelmangla watching/doing plays under trees, in a caged room, on river banks and the like  – sounds pretty wild – but the whole experience really was fascinating to say the least. For …

Increasingly curious and surprisingly funny, how these things happen. Thoughts, I mean, and the synchronicity with which they occur in spatially disconnected individuals… Perceptions of a system’s current cultural needs…all rising together in the collective. And yet we fail to see it- to understand the power of the collective. The city is seeing a new …

ನಮ್ಮಧ್ವನಿ ಸಮುದಾಯ ರೇಡಿಯೋ ಕೆಂದ್ರ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರುನಿಂದ ಸುಮಾರು 100 ಕಿ.ಮೀ ದೂರದಲ್ಲಿ  ಬೂದಿಕೋಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೆ. ಬೂದಿಕೋಟೆ ಕೋಲಾರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, ಬಂಗಾರಪೇಟೆ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ನಮ್ಮಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಬೂದಿಕೋಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ 2002 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಲು ಕಾರಣ ಇದು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ, ಅಂದ್ರಪ್ರದೆಶ್ ಮತ್ತು ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನ ಗಡಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದು, ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಅವಿಧ್ಯಾವಂತರು ಮತ್ತು ಕೂಲಿಕಾರ್ಮಿಕರು  ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಇದ್ದು ಇವರಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮಧ್ವನಿಯನ್ನು ಯುನೆಸ್ಕೋ ಸಹಕಾರದಿಂದ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ನಮ್ಮ ಧ್ವನಿಗೆ ಸಹಕಾರವನ್ನು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರುನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವಾಯ್ಸಸ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ …

The Bangalore City Project , is a cultural and social experiment, under the aegis of the Goethe Institute-Max Mueller Bhavan. To be specific, the Bhavan is providing infrastructural support for a group of interested people/volunteers/organizations to come and discuss possibilities of a “better” Bangalore. With a wonderful buffet laid out, the BCP involves a good varied mix …

Maraa conducted a feasibility study in Hampi to investigate setting up of a Community Multimedia Centre. Hampi, is a Word Heritage Site, as declared by UNESCO, and the CMC, building upon existing social, informational and technological networks, would be to document and disseminate the cultural heritage of Hampi. Further, the CMC would also be a …

A post on Radio Bundelkhand, possibly India’s first community radio station to actually go on air! Details of training, studio set up etc are mentioned.

On 6th of August, good news for community radio enthusiasts! No amount of dirty politics can keep from legitimizing low cost indigenous transmitters from Nomad India. With Development Alternatives getting its license, Nomad India becomes the first home grown transmission solution providers to community radio.

At present, there are less than 30 community radio stations on air, and it seems a bit disappointing especially in the context of government officials proclaiming that there will be 4000 stations up and running within a year, when they released the policy in Nov. 2006. Still stranger, all these stations on air today, are …

Traveling is an important part of life, and we have always been interested in creating content about off the beaten track kind of places, of which there is no shortage in a country like India. From Bidar, one of the most neglected and impoverished districts in Karnataka, to Sikkim, a beautiful state in the North …

Art today is considered officially divorced from perceptions of development. Maraa wants to bridge gaps between creative expression and concepts of social justice. This helps address communities in their multi dimensionality, therefore helping us to move away from the trend of approaching people are mere cardboard cut outs, and bound to specific NGO projects. We …