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Item Metadata only Beaches of Mumbai(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Shah, Dishant; Desai, BinitaThe project brief was to understand the importance of the Mumbai's beaches for the local residents. How the city's beaches, act like a provider of open space (space which can be used for free by rich and poor young and old without any restrictions) and a provider of livelihood. Further, the aim was also to spread awareness about this importance of the beaches among the people so that they proactively take steps towards keeping the beach and its ecosystem clean. The purpose was to come up with a communication product which would draw attention to the importance of beach especially in a city like Mumbai. My intention for choosing this topic was to urge the people (the local residents and authorities) to take requisite steps to preserve the beach and its ecosystem before it is too late.Item Metadata only Janane ka hak : Graphic novel(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Yadav, Vikas; Desai, Binita; Mazumdar, MadhumitaThis report presents the design of a Graphic Novel as a medium to communicate the story of people's movement for RTI which began from a small village in Central Rajasthan and spread out to become a nation-wide demand for Right to Information.Item Metadata only Alzheimer's awareness and care(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Sinwal, Shweta; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Desai, BinitaThe project brief is to understand the mental disorder like Alzheimer's and to be able to distinguish between normal aging problems and signs of the onset of Alzheimer's, which is the most confusing thing to understand. It also spreads the awareness about the risk factors, the difference between sign and symptoms, the aspects that Alzheimer's affects the most, the complete diagnosis process. But majorly, it talks about the caregiving part and the role of caregivers. Caregiving is the most crucial part in disorders like Alzheimer's as in such conditions medications alone cannot provide relief to the patient but the caregiving does. Therefore, this project deals with providing the guidelines to family members as well as caregivers on how to manage and taking care of the person with Alzheimer's. And since, caregiving here means caring for two people; the person with the illness and the person taking care of himself or herself. Therefore, the last part of the project also covers the points in which a caregiver can take care of himself or herself.Item Metadata only Changes in the Bardic traditions of Gujarat(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Kadegia, Bhavik; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, MadhumitaThis project is to understand the importance of bards in culture, Specifically in culturally rich Saurashtra of Gujarat. Here, one can witness the solidness of the belief and pride in their heritage, which is becoming obsolete in the rapid and blind modernizing word of today. Bardic Communities like Barots and Charans have played an important role in this. Because their way of living heavily depends on the traditions which carry the culture as well as their inherited folk literature, which is a regional industry itself which has imbibe the new technology of the present day.There has to be a path that these communities passed through to reach their current status. There was a socio-political system in the past that depended on these communities. I took Charans and Barots initially as they are the most influential of all the bardic communities in Gujarat as well as most well-known also. Today what we see them as a result of their journey, this project is to uncover the narrative of their story and co-relate the different node in past to translate the history into a logical analysis, employing ethnographic methods, with historical and social literature.Item Metadata only Dekha andekha darbar : Documentary film(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Agarwal, Aakanksha; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, MadhumitaThere's an old legend popular among the local folks of the Dangs district of Gujarat. It says that, when offered by the Britishers, the rajas or kings of Dang chose money over the rich and prosperous jungles of the region. The Britishers agreed to keeping the trees and the jungles while kings can have their money. This kind of sums up the entire situation of the Dangs district where the kings are being paid annually even now but are deprived of their jungle and the trees.Item Metadata only Chutkis (Jani kala ke anjaane karigar )(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Agnihotri, Anupriya; Mazumdar, MadhumitaIn the last few years Chikankari an intricate art of doing fine and delicate embroidery on cloth by hand is getting commercialized because of its great demand from domestic as well as from the foreign market. The craft that was about to die has under done revival due to the effort made by the government and non government organizations. The number of shops in the Lucknow is increasing day by day. But still the craft sector is unorganized only few organized sectors are available in the city. Unorganized sector mainly consist of the women embroiders or chutkis that are found in the village and are practicing the craft because of some need. They are not the generation carrier of this craft but they want to learn it so that they can earn some money for their family .But due to no knowledge of the craft and the market they are easily getting exploited by the middle men who bring cloth from the city and give them to these women at an extremely low price. The project aims to communicate about the condition of the female Chikankari artisans in the rural area near Lucknow Who are part of the unorganized Chikankari sector.Item Metadata only Gangdo vahlo lage che - life of Salt Pan workers(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2019) Patel, Parth; Pandya,Vishvajit; Mazumdar,MadhumitaThe project brief was to find out the technological changes brought in the life of Agariyas in the Little Rann of Kutch. It has been seen that since a few years back few NGO's have started installing solar panels in the desert to pump out the brine water, that is used to make the salt. This certainly brings up the questions about the salt farming that had begun here and if solar is a new change in technology for them, it is indeed a matter of curiosity as to what the Agariyas used earlier. There has always been a gap between the originality of the livelihood of Agariyas and the information that people receive through sources like news and media. The aim was to come up with a communication product which would draw attention to the gap between the audience and the Agariyas. This is for better understanding and making people aware of the salt pan workers who play a very important role in producing the nation's salt.Item Open Access Aasharyathaputhanvidu Migration in Identities(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Tharian, Roshni; Desai, Binita; Modi, JayminUntil the 1950’s, ours was a Syrian Catholic family in Prakanam, Pathanamthitta district of South Kerala. Despite relative widespread education, there was little hope for employment in the state. This propelled a large movement of Malayalees across the country. In the 1950’s, Ahmedabad was running to the siren of the mills. My grandfather became one of the several Malayalees that had given in to the appeal of the textile mill industry. They dominated clerical positions in a state that planned to carve its identity as an industrial haven. Migratory influx from Kerala toward Gujarat was thus sustained. Malayalees were to fill up positions that the locals were not addressing. The prospect of a regular salary was highly desirable to the Malayalee population. But the city offered more than employment. With increase in numbers, communities began to cluster. The sixties saw the coming together of a new community, that shared the common tale of financial responsibility of those back home. The arrival and settlement of migrants revived a dormant church in Ahmedabad that had hitherto held intermittent services for floating populations. The Vatican II council in 1964, in its revised worldview set the church and the migrants on the same footing; to acquire the local ethos. Consequently, with each generation, the migrant population learned to find a sense of belonging in their destination city, having little in common with the identity and struggle of the previous generations. This documentary attempts to record the movement in identities of Malayalee Catholic migrants to the city of Ahmedabad. The church becomes a core aspect, that finds symbiosis in its relationship rearing the migrants that grow up to contribute significantly as able members of the church.Item Open Access Bohra Tradition Of Sharing Food(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Agrawal, Anandita; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, MadhumitaWithin Islamic culture, within the Fatemi texts there is a great emphasis on sharing food because it is a means by which one can do good, a means by which one can serve the creator and the creator is best served when one serve his creation. According to the religious leaders of the Bohra Community if you feed one person, it is equal to feeding a group of people and then there are auspicious days when it is customary, mandatory that you participate in feeding other people and in all capacity not just the act of feeding, if you help in the preparation of food, if you help in the growing of food, if you help in the transportation of food, in the distribution of food, even if you give someone who is thirsty a glass of water even for that, there are a host of spiritual rewards, so food sharing is very important in Bohra culture and it is part of who they are. On this philosophy the religious leader of Dawoodi Bohra Community took an initiative to take care of the basic nutritional needs of every member of the community on a daily basis by providing wholesome meals cooked in well managed hygienic kitchens. This initiative was named as Faiz al Mawaid al Burhaniyah that translates as the nourishment of the Burhani Platter, Faiz in this context means the satisfaction that you gain, the fulfillment that you gain, Mawaid is the plural of Maidat which means a filled platter and Burhaniyah is attributed to the 52nd Dai, His Holiness Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, they have established this so that each member of the community gets the reward of nourishing other people, feeding other people. Also the food culture in the community highlights that how they all are similar on so many aspects.Item Open Access Ema Keithel Commodities & Communities(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Laishram, Yaiphahenba; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, Madhumita“Ema” is a word which every people from Manipur use to call their mother, with their deepest love for them. It wouldn’t be much to say that the role play by the mother in this part of region is quite extraordinary. Despite being a patriarchal society, many women have shown that they have equal capability of supporting their family in the worst time of their life. Also, women group like “Meira paibi “take a major leading in fighting whether it is for alcohol and drug abuse, stood for civil rights or to protest against draconian AFSFA. One substantial evidence of how significant and crucial the role of women in this society can be only translate through “Ema keithel - a unique market which is run only by the women. In Manipuri, ema means mother, kei- means storage and -thel means to spread out or to sell which literally means mothers’ market or women’s market. Situated in the centre of Manipur‘s capital city Imphal, it is the only market run by the women in the entire country. Traditionally, in Manipur society women mainly do all the buying for the family from household items like vegetables, children clothes etc. to items for many occasions like marriage and festival.And soon Ema keithel became the platform for largely number of women to join the economic responsibility of the state through trade and commerce. The beautiful part of this unique market is the fact that it’s not just a mere market, more than that it is a family, a society, an identity, a tradition and most importantly a way of life . Most of the products available here reflect the true spirit of local people whether it is the skilled local craftsman or hard-working farmer. Regardless of its continuous threat from new market strategy like online shopping, one can always say that the market survive until today because of all the indigenous products which are hard to get in any other shop. Many local products are now been replaced due to lack of support. Many micro-banker use many tactic to take advantage on the ground of poor education and financial condition of these women. But one should know, each day each women find their own courage and strength to save their family and keithel for a better future. There is a need to sensitize the people about the contribution of the community in producing these commodities which are available in Ema Keithel and to see the market in a different way.