August 05 Newsletter

CED NEWSLETTER – August 05

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A VIRTUAL FACELIFT
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CED has redesigned its website, making it more content rich, more navigatable, visually appealing, more user friendly ….hopefully ! We need you to tell us …Do visit us at www.doccentre.net and give us your feedback. For all our members (those with login names and passwords, our entire collection of 17740 electronic documents can be searched for and even downloaded. If you have difficulties, contact us …veena@doccentre.net. For those of you who are not members and would like to make CED a virtual reality, you pay just Rs.221/- per year and become our Distance Associate. It doesn’t matter where you are, you’ll have CED at your fingertips ! Pass the word along to all those you know.

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LAUNCHING CC
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Not with either Champagne or Coconuts but with the people who matter …Documentalists ! Clearly connected with Critical Concerns our latest information package, is the process CED uses in its documentation system. We see CC as something which documentation centres (either independent or part of organizations) can benefit from … CED picks up what is critical and of concern and puts it together and provides a monthly selection of articles and clippings from newspapers, journals and other sources. CED’s concern as an information activist is to slow down the buzz and the trivializing of what is CRITICAL and of CONCERN. This is an opportunity to give these burning issues their due importance for reflection and action.

CC launch is happening in the third week of September. (We will inform you of the exact date). Do write to us for a sample copy.

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SPREAD THE WORD AROUND
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MAYA ORGANIC, a livelihood programme of MAYA, is launching its retail store introducing the following new range of products -
- a modern line of apparel & fashion accessories for children and men
- well designed furniture for home and office and children's frniture
- a collection of wooden toys in natural dyes
- and a range of new home accessories

on Sunday, 28th August 2005, JP Nagar Bangalore @ No.25/1-4,9 th Cross, Marenahalli Palya, JPNagar 2nd Phase, Bangalore 560078 PH 2659 4547

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NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
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1. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, ed. by Rinki Bhattacharya. SAGE.
2. Investigating Social Capital, Comparative Perspectives on Civil Society, Participation and Governance ed. by Sanjeev Prakash / Per Selle, SAGE
3. Empowering The Oppressed, Grassroots Advocacy Movements in India by Hohn G.Sommer SAGE
4. Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India ed. by Rajesh Tandon, Ranjita Mohanty, SAGE.
5. Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements: Essays in Political Sociology, by T.K.Oommen, SAGE
6. Multinationals in India , Managing the Interface of Cultures, by Jai B.P.Sinha, SAGE
7. Good Governance, Democratic Societies Globalisation, ed. by Surendra Munshi & Biju Paul Abraham, SAGE.
8. Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia, Patriarchy at Odds, ed. by Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan, Pierre Walter.
9. Land For Life, Promise and performance of Land Reforms in Madhya Pradesh, A Study by NCAS, Pune and Ekta Parishad, Bhopal.
10. Poor in Urban India, Life in the Slums of a Western Indian City, by Lancy Lobo and Biswaroop Das, RAWAT