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    Ragpickers: a documentary film on recycling in Ahmedabad
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2015) Prajapati, Soham; Sarkar, Aditinath
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    In search of ...clear skies
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2015) Singh, Nitendra; Mazumdar, Madhumita
    The project title is “In search of … clear skies” The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community who are largely marginalized and have no legal status in societies like India have had to strive to communicate the many challenges that they face in society. In several instance such communication has been through explicit polities of protest while in others struggles for identity have been shaped in everyday struggles through creative use of any available medium or from – image, text, sound. Gray Pride marches for instance are steeped in these multiple mediums and languages of protest. Young members of the community in various campus in India and in other fighting for LGBT rights use the rainbow flag or its colours as a medium to communicate their ideology their rights. The irony in all this is that dominant sections of society have displayed a remarkable indifference towards understanding or engaging with the LGBT community or their languages of protest of protest and solidarity. This project tries to address the widening gap between the LGBT community and mainstream society by drawing attention to the myriad struggles through which young members of the community are trying to legitimize their identities to themselves and to society at large. It looks into the ways in which their personal struggles to come out become part of a cultural and political language that seeks to be heard and understood. It focuses on a small group called Dhanak in JNU (Jawarharlal Nehru University) that supports LGBT rights and strives to create free spaces for homosexual people within the University campus.
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    Nameless workers: who build our cities
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2015) Patel, Pooja; Sarkar, Aditinath
    My project is based on the premise that there prevail certain social and cultural constraints among the construction worker community. Construction worker get the worst treatment, mainly because of the nature of their jobs. People do not trust them easily. There are 1.25 billion people in India out of which 30% of the population consists of these construction workers. They are not consuming any resources extensively. They make do with whatever they get. Ironically, they make jhopari colonies, adjacent to the work-site and soon the proud owners of the new residences try to force them to move. Their earnings are sent to the families in the villages they have left in search of work.
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    Patola: the ikat of Gujarat
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2014) Shah, Namita; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Raje, Nitin
    Any discussion of Ikat weaving in Gujarat begins and ends in the Patan Patola. The Patan Patola is indeed the finest representation of the ikat in Gujarat and also the most expensive in the market but, the Ikat of Rajkot and Surendranagar also stand at the same level in terms of quality and aesthetics. In recent times the Patan Patola has also received the Geographical Indication (GI) certification to protect its distinctive identity and ensure its survival. This is indeed a matter of pride for the Ikat weavers of Patan. But other weavers of Ikat located in Rajkot and Surendranagar have felt threatened by the new distinction conferred on Patan and have complained that the market for their Ikat could be impacted. After consultations with specialists at ATIRA and after doing extensive ethnographic research among consumers and the Ikat producers of Gujarat at the Garvi Gujarat annual exhibition, I felt that one way addressing the concerns of the Ikat weavers of Surendranagar and Rajkot would be to promote their products on a platform that would showcase Ikat weaving traditions in Gujarat as a whole. Hence, I chose the platform of an interactive multimedia kiosk because I thought in could reach out to wide range of consumers at an exhibition site that brought together both weavers and consumers at a single location. The interactive kiosk could be situated easily at the ground of the Garvi Gujarat exhibition as well as other similar exhibition sites where audio-visual promotional material on textiles mainly films were. Already being used to educate consumers. After looking at the response to these films that were being shown at the exhibition ground, I realized that consumers visiting the exhibition grounds had little time to sit through an entire film. They had time constraints and wanted to do a quick check on the product they were buying. In there circumstance is was better to develop a communication strategy that would provide them with the relevant information and give them the choice to seek out whatever they wanted. A film did not gave them that choice. The multimedia interactive framework would bring together the story of Ikat in Gujarat, that is bring out the distinctiveness of each of its weaving centres and allow the consumers to make an informed choice about the product they would wish to buy. This interactive multimedia kiosk, at the heart of textile exhibitions, besides communicating the story of Ikat of Gujarat to the consumers, would also brand Patoda a s’Ikat of Gujarat’ and not separately as Patan, Rajkot or Surendranagar Patola as well as encourage tourist to visit Rajkot and Surendranagar along with Patan to see and understand Ikat of Gujarat. This will also help weavers from these two regions to sustain themselves and establish their identity as equal contributors as protectors of Ikat tradition of Gujarat along with Salvis of Patan.
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    Vikalp : aware a child - save childhood
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Agarwal, Nidhi; Raje, Nitin
    The focal points of the project are street children, who are being exploited at different levels and under different circumstances. Keeping this in focus and going through the readings and research works done in this area, it was realized that there are many deep-rooted problems both at personal and social level which all together creates unfavorable conditions for children that spoil their childhood. Lot of amendment has been made in constitution but the problem still persists and the percentage is increasing at a regular scale. To address the problem effectively it has to be analyzed in a right manner and direction with sincerely and collectively affords by NGO(S), area panchayats, district administration, state and central government. Among so many problems with which children are fighting for their survival “The Child Labour” (age group 7 to 14 years, who are engaged in hazardous and other gainful occupations which are injurious to their health anddevelopment) is one such problem that plays an important role in departing children from enjoying their childhood. It’s not just parents, teachers, factory owners and at large the society, who has to understand the hazardous effect of child labour, rather children themselves should be made aware of the importance of education in their life to solve the problem at grass root level. To communicate this idea, I choose the medium of film, a film that has a social appeal to make, it interest children and have much-much effect on their soft, unspotted and plain mind. The dialogue, body language, gesture are powerful medium of communication and has a long lasting impact as well. To make the product more effective their should be some group activities in which the children are asked to talk about what they had seen in the film, doing such discussions they will think about the whole subject again and again and for this I had design a colouring book that will be given to the children after they had seen the film, in which the children had to colour the sketches as they had seen in the film. Each sketch is supported with a question which has to be answered as per the story. This will be group activity and a best medium to communicate and interact at different levels. One such film is “Vikalp” that put forward the story of two boys from similar background. One of them, who is comparatively an intelligent boy got attracted towards easily available money, good food and end up joining work on a road side shop to fulfill his unwanted needs whereas the other, who is comparatively less intelligent listened to his teachers, parents voice and continue education, and at last turned out to be much happier in the latter course of life. The story of the film is moving around the real-life situation of society thus screening two ways of dealing a situation. It poses question for the viewers (i.e. children, parents, teachers, shop owners and society in large) at different levels.