Citizens’ Initiative wishes to thank:
• Amar Kanwar: for agreeing to speak at our panel discussion in Delhi
• Amit Sengupta: for providing us with contacts in Delhi.
• Anil Chowdhury: for his help and support.
• Anuradha Talwar: for answering our queries on the NREGS and for helping us by providing contacts in Delhi.
• G Arunima: for agreeing to host our exhibition at JNU, for organising the talk at WSP and for the immense support not only this time round in Delhi but earlier as well.
• Aseem Shrivastava: for giving us his house to stay in, in Delhi, and for the various contacts he provided us with. Also, for speaking in the February 2008 conference, for putting things in perspective for the months to come and for sending us a truckload of films on development for the film festival at our event at Seagull.
• Devika Lal: for helping us organise talks in various colleges in Delhi.
• Dilip Simeon: for travelling to Kolkata and speaking at our conference in February 2008. Also, for providing contacts in Delhi.
• Manali Chakrabarti and Sounak Chakrabarty: for organising the talk at IIT-Kanpur.
• Maria Ann: for organising the talk at St. Stephen’s College
• Meher Engineer: for humour and immense support with collecting (food, clothes and medicines) for Dobandi over the months s and also for appealing for help to all on our behalf for this event in Delhi. The various events would not have been possible without him.
• Mukul Priyadarshini and Sharmila Purkayastha: for organising the talk at Miranda House.
• Naveen Kishore the miracle worker: without whose unflinching generosity not an iota of the event at Seagull would have been possible. For continuing to help us with our endeavours in Kolkata as well as providing us contacts in Delhi.
• Praful Bidwai: for agreeing to speak at our panel discussion in Delhi
• Promona Sengupta and Bedatri Datta: for organising the talk at LSR and for informing fellow students about Singur in the canteens.
• Shukla Sawant and School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU: for providing us with the venue for the exhibition in Delhi.
• Sujoy Chakravarty: for inviting us to Delhi and organising the talk at IIT-Delhi. Also, for winning the 2nd best attendance prize for the event at Seagull.
• Tanika Sarkar: for agreeing to speak at our panel discussion in Delhi
• Vrinda Grover: for her support.
• Women’s Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, JNU: for hosting our exhibition in Delhi, and for being patient and generous with time and help.
• A Punjabi Dilliwala who chooses to remain private but who helped us organise this public event.
• 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.
• Ananda Lal: for his generous contribution to CI and for feeling touched by our work.
• Ananya Chatterjee Chakravarti: for generously funding the filming of our February seminar.
• Anchita Ghatak, Sourinee Mirdha and ACTION AID: for their steady supportive presence.
• Anuradha Kapoor and SWAYAM: for their support.
• ANYA NARI: for translating and publishing the Nandigram Interim Report in Bangla.
• Arundhati Ghosh (Bangalore): for effective and affective sisterhood from afar.
• 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.
• Biplab Dey: for obsessive concern about the technicalities surrounding our photographs, and for critical comments whose usefulness we learnt only with time.
• Bodhisattva Kar: for saying ‘Silence after Auschwitz’ with despairing eyes.
• Buddha Deb and AMNESTY: for helping the event at Seagull.
• CCTV and Minakshi Chaudhuri: for making the medical camps at Dobandi possible. Almost 70 people were treated in Dobandi at this camp in April in a collaborative effort by CCTV and CI and another 70 people were treated in a follow-up camp in July.
• Debolina Dutta and OPEN SPACE: for helping the event at Seagull.
• Debalina and Aulic: for their support and advice.
• EBONG ALAP: for its almost constant support and guidance. Especially, Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Aveek Sen, Swati Ganguly and Sudeshna Banerjee.
• ELAAN and BLANKNOISE PROJECT, fellow students groups: for their presence and for keeping the dialogue on comprehensive awareness going.
• Garga Chatterjee: for his help and support.
• Jishnu Dasgupta: for being there unconditionally when we needed him and disappearing into Oly Pub when we did not.
• 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.
• 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.
• Niladri Chatterjee: for going to every michhil we called him for, even when we did not manage to ourselves.
• 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.
• Our hosts in Singur.
• Paromita Brahmachari: for arguing with Trina almost all the time about everything.
• Paromita Chakravarti: for being there all the time and for scolding us about everything, even things we had not done.
• Prabir Niyogy: for helping us out in Singur along with Kenneth.
• Pradip Kumar Dutta, Dwaipayan Bhattacharya and Manas Ray: for their help and advice.
• Prasanta Chakravarty: for constant dialogue and debate all the way from Bangalore.
• Rajarshi Dasgupta: for advising us about the photographs and for being the only person around whom Trina is scared of.
• Sabir Ahamed and CALCUTA SAMARITANS: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs.
• Samantak Das: for being there ab ovo and for telling us things about rural Bengal which we never knew.
• Saswati Biswas: for giving us the use of her car in February and much, much else through the months.
• Shuktara Lal: for giving us our first press coverage, in Civil Society
• 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.
• Sujato Bhadra and APDR: for speaking at our workshop on RTIs and PILs
• Sujit Kumar Mandal and Rafat Ali at JU: for giving us so much support during the Dobandi Drive.
• Sunando, Megha, Indrani and others at Seagull: for helping to organise the tripartite event in July-August 2008 and for helping us organise talks in schools.
• Supriya Chaudhuri: for appreciating our work and encouraging us in our efforts.
• SWAJAN, Arpita Ghosh and Kaushik Sen: for keeping the dialogue open.
• The faculty at JUDE: for being understanding.
• 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.
• Each person who has helped us with their time, their patience, their solidarity, their thoughts, their affection, their labour and their constant support.
• 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.
• Every person who contributed to the Dobandi (Singur) Relief Drive in March.
• 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.
• Everyone we missed in this list and who should have been here.
• 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.
Sincerely,
Aditya Vikram Das
Amrita Dhar
Aniruddha Dutta
Aniruddha Maitra
Arnab Banerji
Dibyajyoti Ghosh
Insiya Poonawala
Joyraj Bhattacharya
Lav Kanoi
Madhura Chakraborty
Mrinalini Ghosh
Pramita Ray
Reep Pandi Lepcha
Rohini Chaki
Rwitayan Mukherjee
Sahana Bhose
Sahana Ghosh
Saptarshi Chakraborty
Trina Nileena Banerjee
Uttaran Dasgupta
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