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Item Open Access Devo athithi bhava-athithi devo bhava: an event where God come in as guest and guest comes as God(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2009) Sharma, Neha; Pandya, Vishvajit“Devo Athithi Bhava, Athithi Devo Bhava” is an exploration of a unique cultural phenomenon which leads to social, political and economical context of the place. It focuses on the festival “Dusshera in Kullu” where the Gods come as guests. The tourists i.e. guests who visit the place are also treated like God to the place. Project is basically to promote ‘Tourism in Kullu’ which is further exploration of not only the ‘unique way of celebrating this festival but also communicates the “Impact of culture tourism” on and by the people of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh. It invites the user to explore not only the culture and belief of the festival in the context of its celebration but also to assist the viewer to know about the local people and the place, where tourism potential provides the State, the tourist as well as the local people benefit, by organizing such culturally accepted festivals and events. Tourists are derived of opportunities to enjoy the rural, remote and the most scenic parts of the state due to lack of awareness. Thus, project explores them to find other places in the district those have equal cultural tourism potential. It generates critical awareness among the tourist who are visiting the place to get authentic information about the event. It also gives information to the viewer about the culture diversity in India and gives knowledge of the tradition of celebrating dusshera festival in various parts of the country in different ways with independent history related to it.Item Open Access Darshan on the highway: urbanisation and popular religion in contemporary Ahmedabad(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2009) Anglay, Hemang; Mazumdar, MadhumitaDarshan on the Highway is a multimedia news story which is incorporated in a news website. It brings out the quality and characteristics of New SG Highway. In the recent years a new lifestyle has emerged on account of growing economy around the city of Ahmedabad. Two major forms of structures which emerged are the 'Temples' as well as the 'Business' complexes. Mainly the religious structures and business structures are the two main segment which share a symbiotic relationship between them, and also constitutes to the Visual Display of the entire stretched area. It has changed the economics of this stretch of the city making it a hub of a range of malls, multiplexes and restaurants. The temple complexes along with shopping complexes make the SG Highway a unique site for the study of the nature of urbanization and popular religious practice in contemporary Gujarat. It brings out the recent change which has transformed into a cultural phenomenon - The co-existence of economic enterprise and spirituality. It deals with the demands of work, leisure and religiosity in the best possible ways. The SG highway has attracted both citizen and media attention in recent times because of its mushrooming temple complexes and replicas of popular shrines on pilgrim circuits. Keeping this exceptional feature as the driving force I have tried to create a multimedia presentation in a sequence which might open up the curtains one by one. A news feature on the SG Highway had already appeared in the Ahmedabad edition of the Times of India on the 24th of July 2003. At that point the temples complexes had just begun to take shape with the successful replication of the Vaishno Devi Temple. My news story brings the story down further to 2009 to show the more recent replication of the Tirupati Balaji temple. The news feed drives the user to explore the replicas of two major shrines one being from north and the other being from the south, as well as its implications in contemporary senario. Namely, the Vaishnavdevi temple and the Tirupati Balaji temple on SG Highway. Given the spatial limitations of the multimedia news format, I have chosen to depict some salient features of the SG Highway focusing in particular on the replica shrines and their significance for visitors and devotees in the city of Ahmedabad.Item Open Access Body sense: towards a sensible approach to health and body image(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2009) Kaur, Gagandeep; Mazumdar, MadhumitaBody sense is a website intended as a platform for young women to help them identify and respond to the conditions in their lives that contribute to their confused body images, eating disorders and related problems of obesity and depression. It seeks to send out the message that It is important to resist myths about obesity, thinness or the perfect body that the market sells the in order to embrace a healthy lifestyle and a positive body image.Item Open Access String puppets of Rajasthan(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2009) Shah, Aneri; Raman, SethuThe Project is explores the contents of usage of background in the specified domain of the art form of Rajasthani Kathputli and their performers, Types of Puppet, Folklore stories about Rajasthani string Puppets, About Bhat Community, Story about first Net Puppeteer, History and myth about Vikramaditya’s 32 dolls, Amar Singh Story about String puppets, Popular Modern Characters, How Puppeteer are Making the String puppets, Language of communication through Facial expression, Sutradhar, Boli & Team and stage, its Ritual customs and Traditions, and Modern trends. This project also sincerely appeals to all the generations to save this fabulous form of art.The final output will an Interactive Multimedia CD- ROM which provides nonlinear access to multiple forms of information ranging from digital medium like film, sound, illustration, Photographs, interactive animation and text in a format that allows the user to explore it, and learn about the display principle in the context of Udaipur popular Folk Art Rajasthani string Puppet visual and Per formative traditions.
Item Open Access Christianity and Kathakali: Dance - drama of Kerala(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2009) Alex, Abin; Sarkar, Aditi NathKathakali and Christianity have long been associated with the state of Kerala. Both have had their own independent identity. Since Kathakali was not an art form that portrayed the Biblical stories and it was confined within the temple compound, in the early years an intermingling of them was a question out of context. Though Christians in Kerala are known to have co-existed with native culture of Kerala, the arrival of Portugese and strict rules imposed by the Christian orthodox authority saw the community taking less to the native culture. This resulted in the formulation of new art forms exclusively belonging to the Christians of Kerala like Margamkali and Chavitunadakkom. Moreover, the mythological stories that are part and parcel of Kathakali performance where considered to be chiefly belonging to Hindus. There were rites and rituals before, during and after the performance of Kathakali that led people from non-Hindu community to make unfriendly them from the art form. It was not until the 1960s that the ruling of the second Vatican council and the efforts of people to make Kathakali represent Kerala rather than a particular division, those stories from Bible made their way into the literatures of this dance form. This development is recent comparing with the time these two entities have been existing in Kerala. There is the need for familiarizing the masses about this as the growth of this segment of Kathakali is oblivious to a lot of people. I intend to meet this end through this project.Item Open Access Khel mangalagauriche: women and somatic recreation(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Kore, Manasi; Desai, BinitaIn Maharashtra, there are many rituals and festivals celebrated especially by women. The reason behind performing such rituals is to worship a god or goddess. But the women themselves are benefited from these rituals. The traditional games are no exception. Maharashtra has a rich tradition of games for women, played in the festivals. They are performed throughout night to entertain the Goddess. But these games take care of the women’s mental as well as physical health. The traditional games played in a community represent the culture of that community. Mangalagaur games, played by Chitpavan Brahmin community of Maharashtra are one of the most popular games found. The games involve physical activities synchronized with songs. Song and exercise together can be compared with the aerobics. Though Mangalagaur is celebrated only by Brahmins of Maharashtra, similar games can be seen played on different occasions like Nagpanchami, Hartalika and Bhondala in other communities. ‘Khel Mangalagauriche’ (Games of Mangalagaur) is an attempt to understand the importance given to a woman’s mental and physical health in the Maharashtrian culture through the games played during the Mangalagaur.Item Open Access Verbs in the jungle(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Dubey, Smita; Desai, BinitaProject is based on vocabulary development of hearing impaired children these children do not have hearing sense and because of that, they are unable to speak Understanding about various things is different for a child with hearing disability as compared to normal child Because of that, the teaching methods are different for them. In the initial stage of education for kids with hearing disability, parents and normal school teachers do not know how to teach the child The main problem is that hearing disabled child does not have a language vocabulary According to psychologists when a child without hearing disability starts going to the school, he has at least more than 3,000 words language vocabulary. However, in case of hearing disabled child, he does not have early age vocabulary The main target of the project is to help a hearing impaired child build his vocabulary In the early age.Item Open Access Moving canvases: truck as a new medium(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Patel, Bhavesh; Sarkar, Aditi NathThe most common sight of daily life in India consists of the omnipresent truck that travels on the highways all across the nation. For everybody on the road, truck is a commonplace sign of thriving overland transport industry, and for many a momentary pause of appreciation of the wooden structures on the wheels covered with clashing motifs. A striking vision on the roads of India is the vision of truck covered in a riot of color and design. These monstrous vehicles are better known for clogging traffic then for their aesthetic qualities. There are three million trucks in India. Perhaps the biggest paradox of truck art is that despite its commonness most people do not recognize it as art. Truck art like movie banners, advertising and posters, is a popular medium that expresses the creators thoughts. It is a popular form of art that is self advertising and propagating one, which has no single artist, which is regional yet universal, which is exposed to masses. I want to look in to the concept of usage of paintings and the decorations done on the trucks in the specified domain of art. So through this project I want to show the importance of visual representation in popular culture by focusing on the decorations done on the truck. It is an attempt to go beyond the basic characterization of art and look in to how forms of art convey identity in society through this mode of visual communication.Item Open Access Urban soundscapes: an exploration of why and how, we hear, what we do...(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Kadam, Neha; Mazumdar, MadhumitaUrban soundscapes is a multimedia exploration of the forms, practices and habits of engaging with sound in a contemporary urban Indian context. It focuses on the listening habits of a section of the urban Indian youth and invites critical reflection on the choices they make in the selection and enjoyment of the sounds that come to them through the mediation modern technology. Put simply, Urban Soundscapes is both an exploration and reflection on why we hear what we do as we live our lives in the complex sonic environment of the modern city. It begins on the premise that the urban soundscape is not a random collection of sounds. Sounds in the city come in forms, patterns, designs and shapes that are tied to dominant economic structures and local cultural contexts. It invites the user to explore this observation through four different points of entry through technology, through the consumer, the music market and of course through the makers of music themselves. The role of technology in creating a complex and evolving urban soundscape is underscored by a focus on the particular forms, tastes, and habits of listening to music by a dominant section of the urban Indian youth. Based on both fieldwork and academic writings on the subject, this product tries to present a complex cultural and social phenomenon in a format that tries to appeal to both the initiated and informed. It can in a sense position itself as educational software that tries to complement serious writing on the subject by putting together the constitutive elements of multi‐media on a digital medium that is both attractive and affordable. It does not in any way pretend to be either a comprehensive or definitive work on the subject. It offers instead the possibility of generating a critical awareness of one’s social and cultural context in a way that is both intelligible and entertaining.Item Metadata only Vikalp : aware a child - save childhood(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Agarwal, Nidhi; Raje, NitinThe 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.