Thursday, August 28, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Acknowledgements for Under Development: Singur at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre from 27.06.08 to 2.07.08
Citizens’ Initiative wishes to thank:
1. First and foremost, Naveen Kishore the miracle worker: without whose unflinching generosity not an iota of this would have been possible.
2. Amlan Das Gupta: for being there even before we began and for telling us exactly what he liked (regardless of our telling him what we liked) during our photo-selection procedure. Also, for providing immense support during the event at Seagull and thereby bagging the best attendance prize for the event.
3. Ananda Lal: for his generous contribution to CI and for feeling touched by our work.
4. Anchita Ghatak, Sourinee Mirdha and ACTION AID: for their steady supportive presence.
5. Anuradha Kapoor and SWAYAM: for their support.
6. Ananya Chatterjee Chakravarti: for generously funding the filming of our February seminar.
7. ANYA NARI: for translating and publishing the Nandigram Interim Report in Bangla.
8. Aseem Shrivastava: for speaking in the February conference and for putting things in perspective for the months to come. And for sending us a truckload of films on development this time.
9. Banojyotsna Lahiri: for being the only person in Delhi (a city where we thought we had many friends) who agreed to collect and courier to us the films from Aseem, even though she hardly knew us.
10. Biplab Dey: for nothing short of obsessive concern about the technicalities surrounding our photographs, and for many, many critical comments whose usefulness we learnt only with time.
11. Bodhisattva Kar: for saying ‘Silence after Auschwitz’ with despairing eyes.
12. Buddha Deb and Amnesty: for helping the event at Seagull.
13. CCTV and Minakshi Chaudhuri: for making the medical camp at Dobandi possible. Almost 70 people were treated in Dobandi at this camp in April in a collaborative effort by CCTV and CI.
14. Debolina Dutta and OPEN SPACE: for helping the event at Seagull.
15. Debalina and Aulic: for their support and advice.
16. Dilip Simeon: for agreeing, just like Aseem, to travel all the way from Delhi at his own expense, just to speak to us.
17. EBONG ALAP: for its almost constant support and guidance. Especially, Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Aveek Sen, Swati Ganguly and Sudeshna Banerjee.
18. ELAAN and BLANKNOISE PROJECT, fellow students groups: for their presence and for keeping the dialogue on comprehensive awareness going.
19. G Arunima (Delhi) and Arundhati Ghosh (Bangalore): for effective and affective sisterhood from afar.
20. Garga Chatterjee: for his help and support.
21. Jishnu Dasgupta: for being there unconditionally when we needed him and disappearing into Oly Pub when we did not.
22. Kavita Panjabi: for supporting us from the very beginning through everything, including giving us her premises for our extremely noisy meetings and for the excellent food.
23. Kenneth Bo Nielsen: for the photographs that only he could have taken (for there are perhaps always things that we, as visitors, cannot get to see), for familiarising us with Singur, for sharing analyses and information that he had researched while working for his own doctoral dissertation, and for sharing his room with us whenever we needed a place to rest and sit and talk. All this, despite the mosquitoes, the heat, and the toothache.
24. Meher Engineer: for humour and immense support with collecting (food, clothes and medicines) for Dobandi over the months.
25. Niladri Chatterjee: for going to every michhil we called him for, even when we did not manage to ourselves.
26. Nilanjana Deb: for her time, for marshalling volunteers whenever we needed more hands, and for her ideas. For helping to find place to store clothes and food, and for bringing little things like flowers into our lives on busy days.
27. Our hosts in Singur.
28. Paromita Brahmachari: for arguing with Trina almost all the time about everything.
29. Paromita Chakravarti: for being there all the time and for scolding us about everything, even things we had not done.
30. Pradip Kumar Dutta, Dwaipayan Bhattacharya and Manas Ray: for their help and advice.
31. Prasanta Chakravarty: for constant dialogue and debate all the way from Bangalore.
32. Prabir Niyogy: for helping us out in Singur along with Kenneth.
33. Rajarshi Dasgupta: for advising us about the photographs and for being the only person around whom Trina is scared of.
34. Sabir Ahamed and Calcutta Samaritans: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs
35. Samantak Das: for being there ab ovo and for telling us things about rural Bengal which we never knew.
36. Saswati Biswas: for giving us the use of her car in February and much, much else through the months.
37. Shuktara Lal: for giving us our first press coverage
38. Subhendu Dasgupta: for his time and his talks -- albeit informal -- at Jadavpur University almost a year back now, and then being with us through all the present efforts.
39. Sujato Bhadra and APDR: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs
40. Sujit Kumar Mandal and Rafat Ali at JU: for giving us so much support during the Dobandi Drive.
41. Sunando and Megha: for help and advice at the venue. Babuda and his men: for their labour.
42. Swajan, Arpita Ghosh and Kaushik Sen: for keeping the dialogue open.
43. The faculty at JUDE: for being understanding.
44. All our friends and co-students at Jadavpur University and the CSSSC, who have chipped in, in a million little ways. Those who have worked days on end to make everything from donation bins from shoe boxes to posters for seminars.
45. Each person who has helped us with their time, their patience, their solidarity, their thoughts, their affection, their labour and their constant support.
46. All those who have travelled with us to Singur and Nandigram. All those who have wanted to know, in most minute detail, what we saw when we came back.
47. Every person who contributed to the Dobandi (Singur) Relief Drive in March.
48. Our parents: for scaring, discouraging, madly loving and in the end, grudgingly supporting us. We know where you have been and what you have seen, but a kid’s gotta do what s/he’s gotta do. We know you will come around.
49. Everyone we missed in this list and who should have been here.
50. Above all, our deepest thanks are due to the people of Singur. They have allowed us into their villages and homes, shared with us their sorrows, apprehensions and happiness, and finally, trusted us to look at them through our lenses. This exhibition is dedicated to them.
Aditya Vikram Das
Amrita Dhar
Aniruddha Dutta
Aniruddha Maitra
Arnab Banerji
Dibyajyoti Ghosh
Insiya Poonawala
Joyraj Bhattacharya
Lav Kanoi
Madhura Chakraborty
Rwitayan Mukherjee
Sahana Bhose
Sahana Ghosh
Trina Nileena Banerjee
Uttaran Dasgupta
1. First and foremost, Naveen Kishore the miracle worker: without whose unflinching generosity not an iota of this would have been possible.
2. Amlan Das Gupta: for being there even before we began and for telling us exactly what he liked (regardless of our telling him what we liked) during our photo-selection procedure. Also, for providing immense support during the event at Seagull and thereby bagging the best attendance prize for the event.
3. Ananda Lal: for his generous contribution to CI and for feeling touched by our work.
4. Anchita Ghatak, Sourinee Mirdha and ACTION AID: for their steady supportive presence.
5. Anuradha Kapoor and SWAYAM: for their support.
6. Ananya Chatterjee Chakravarti: for generously funding the filming of our February seminar.
7. ANYA NARI: for translating and publishing the Nandigram Interim Report in Bangla.
8. Aseem Shrivastava: for speaking in the February conference and for putting things in perspective for the months to come. And for sending us a truckload of films on development this time.
9. Banojyotsna Lahiri: for being the only person in Delhi (a city where we thought we had many friends) who agreed to collect and courier to us the films from Aseem, even though she hardly knew us.
10. Biplab Dey: for nothing short of obsessive concern about the technicalities surrounding our photographs, and for many, many critical comments whose usefulness we learnt only with time.
11. Bodhisattva Kar: for saying ‘Silence after Auschwitz’ with despairing eyes.
12. Buddha Deb and Amnesty: for helping the event at Seagull.
13. CCTV and Minakshi Chaudhuri: for making the medical camp at Dobandi possible. Almost 70 people were treated in Dobandi at this camp in April in a collaborative effort by CCTV and CI.
14. Debolina Dutta and OPEN SPACE: for helping the event at Seagull.
15. Debalina and Aulic: for their support and advice.
16. Dilip Simeon: for agreeing, just like Aseem, to travel all the way from Delhi at his own expense, just to speak to us.
17. EBONG ALAP: for its almost constant support and guidance. Especially, Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Aveek Sen, Swati Ganguly and Sudeshna Banerjee.
18. ELAAN and BLANKNOISE PROJECT, fellow students groups: for their presence and for keeping the dialogue on comprehensive awareness going.
19. G Arunima (Delhi) and Arundhati Ghosh (Bangalore): for effective and affective sisterhood from afar.
20. Garga Chatterjee: for his help and support.
21. Jishnu Dasgupta: for being there unconditionally when we needed him and disappearing into Oly Pub when we did not.
22. Kavita Panjabi: for supporting us from the very beginning through everything, including giving us her premises for our extremely noisy meetings and for the excellent food.
23. Kenneth Bo Nielsen: for the photographs that only he could have taken (for there are perhaps always things that we, as visitors, cannot get to see), for familiarising us with Singur, for sharing analyses and information that he had researched while working for his own doctoral dissertation, and for sharing his room with us whenever we needed a place to rest and sit and talk. All this, despite the mosquitoes, the heat, and the toothache.
24. Meher Engineer: for humour and immense support with collecting (food, clothes and medicines) for Dobandi over the months.
25. Niladri Chatterjee: for going to every michhil we called him for, even when we did not manage to ourselves.
26. Nilanjana Deb: for her time, for marshalling volunteers whenever we needed more hands, and for her ideas. For helping to find place to store clothes and food, and for bringing little things like flowers into our lives on busy days.
27. Our hosts in Singur.
28. Paromita Brahmachari: for arguing with Trina almost all the time about everything.
29. Paromita Chakravarti: for being there all the time and for scolding us about everything, even things we had not done.
30. Pradip Kumar Dutta, Dwaipayan Bhattacharya and Manas Ray: for their help and advice.
31. Prasanta Chakravarty: for constant dialogue and debate all the way from Bangalore.
32. Prabir Niyogy: for helping us out in Singur along with Kenneth.
33. Rajarshi Dasgupta: for advising us about the photographs and for being the only person around whom Trina is scared of.
34. Sabir Ahamed and Calcutta Samaritans: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs
35. Samantak Das: for being there ab ovo and for telling us things about rural Bengal which we never knew.
36. Saswati Biswas: for giving us the use of her car in February and much, much else through the months.
37. Shuktara Lal: for giving us our first press coverage
38. Subhendu Dasgupta: for his time and his talks -- albeit informal -- at Jadavpur University almost a year back now, and then being with us through all the present efforts.
39. Sujato Bhadra and APDR: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs
40. Sujit Kumar Mandal and Rafat Ali at JU: for giving us so much support during the Dobandi Drive.
41. Sunando and Megha: for help and advice at the venue. Babuda and his men: for their labour.
42. Swajan, Arpita Ghosh and Kaushik Sen: for keeping the dialogue open.
43. The faculty at JUDE: for being understanding.
44. All our friends and co-students at Jadavpur University and the CSSSC, who have chipped in, in a million little ways. Those who have worked days on end to make everything from donation bins from shoe boxes to posters for seminars.
45. Each person who has helped us with their time, their patience, their solidarity, their thoughts, their affection, their labour and their constant support.
46. All those who have travelled with us to Singur and Nandigram. All those who have wanted to know, in most minute detail, what we saw when we came back.
47. Every person who contributed to the Dobandi (Singur) Relief Drive in March.
48. Our parents: for scaring, discouraging, madly loving and in the end, grudgingly supporting us. We know where you have been and what you have seen, but a kid’s gotta do what s/he’s gotta do. We know you will come around.
49. Everyone we missed in this list and who should have been here.
50. Above all, our deepest thanks are due to the people of Singur. They have allowed us into their villages and homes, shared with us their sorrows, apprehensions and happiness, and finally, trusted us to look at them through our lenses. This exhibition is dedicated to them.
Aditya Vikram Das
Amrita Dhar
Aniruddha Dutta
Aniruddha Maitra
Arnab Banerji
Dibyajyoti Ghosh
Insiya Poonawala
Joyraj Bhattacharya
Lav Kanoi
Madhura Chakraborty
Rwitayan Mukherjee
Sahana Bhose
Sahana Ghosh
Trina Nileena Banerjee
Uttaran Dasgupta
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