a new exhibition

Hello,
I'm still in marking mode.... but I did find time to see the following at the Immigration Museum...well worth it. The show has been put together by George Michel (not george michael), much of his work has centred on the architecture of Vijayanagara Empire (i..e. he has quite a few publications and is also a regular visitor to Melbourne (and also a nice guy). What I enjoyed most was the reworking of a 19th century photograph by his photographer friend. Also the digital display was awesome:

Ancient Hampi: The Hindu Kingdom Brought to Life
Now Showing

The Hindu deity Ganesha at Hampi.Image: Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw, 2006
(sorry I couldn't upload the image)
Immerse yourself in the ancient world of Hampi.
This international exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in the stunning World Heritage site of Hampi in southern India.
Using state of the art digital technologies, this ground breaking experience presents 3D stereographic panoramas of an extraordinary site with all its mythological, archaeological, artistic and historic significance.
Ancient Hampi includes animations of Hindu myths and stories, an immersive digital interactive space showing panoramic images of the site and its landscape, as well as captivating photography.
EVENT DETAILS
Event Type: Temporary Exhibition
Daily, Now Showing10:00 AM - 5:00 PMImmigration Museum
Included with Immigration Museum entry.

Sooo, iv been in tazzy for the last part of a week and have thus (because i find it nice to remove myself from the world) missed whats been going on in Moombai.... (Bombay) i got the short of it, but am wondering who it is, apparenly its an unknown terrorest organisation, which makes me wonder is its a politiacal group holding a Coup, wondering if anyone knows more about it. Are we looking at the begining of the re-emergence of the Veidic ages?



john

attack of the clones

Here's a story that came out in the cricket website I view often...it's related to one of the last topics we covered in class to do with fundamentalism.

"Attack of the clones
With retirements the flavour of the month, there's one option India's senior cricketers could consider: politics. At the moment it's their clones who are cashing in. Along with a few film stars, a Sachin Tendulkar lookalike is canvassing for votes ahead of the upcoming elections in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. A few households were pleasantly surprised to see "Tendulkar" at their doorsteps last week. "My nine-year-old son Rehan was thrilled when he responded to the doorbell Sunday morning to find Sachin himself standing with three friends," said one of those caught unawares. "I asked my son, 'How come Sachin is roaming here rather than playing cricket against Australia?' Then my husband said he was just the cricketer's lookalike.
The lady then went on to recount how "Sachin" was in a hurry and refused to wait for some food she wanted to offer him. "He just asked for tea and reminded us how our votes are important and advised us to prefer the BJP [the ruling party in the state]." "
Source: http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/377548.html, Mathew Varghese, September 10, 2008, cricinfo.com

Frantic last minute touch base

This I.T. gig not my forte.
Never the less....
my friend Shameem and I grew up on Indian movies!!!
we just could not get enough of Amitabh Bachan???!
the latest stuff pales by comparison!!!
really too busy for this.....
have work for our favourite teacher (s) pending...
kadaa hafiz
rabiah

Screening on Wednesday 1.00 Nov. 12th

Hi All,
Just a reminder that there is a screening on Wednesday Nov 12 @ 1.00pm. The choice of film will be decided on the day. Please note attendance is not compulsory and is largely to provide a bit of pleasurable relief

Long time no post

i havnt been on this thing for a while!
i feel bad
i would tottaly have done the study thing on the 30th
oops
ah well
im so tired
!!!
finding it hard to squeeze these essays out of my head!

has any one been to st. albans main rd. west lately?
i have! LOL
and the number of indian gorcery shops that have sprung up in the last 6 monthes is amazing they have all but tripled
one of the new ones has really beautiful scenes of the hindi gods and goddesses!
hmmm ...
xmas art investment much ? !!!
tree of life have some kool ganesh figures as well
LOL
dw i am aware no one would care
im just blogging away
.....


:)

need assistance

Hi
does anyone know how I can remove an image from a posting????

This weeks questions.

Heya all i was wondering if anyone else isn't quite sure what the first question on the work sheet is.

whilst i know what its referencing i don't know what it wants me to do :/.



also Sara do you mean the 30th of October? November seems a little late

study day - 30 October

Hi Fellow Weary Travellers:

I'm wondering if any of you will join me in a study day next Thursday? I'd be really pleased to get the company. I'm sure many people are in the library anyway, but something I read early on in a pscyh book was that people work harder if they think they are being watched.

So what I mean is block book some PCs and a discussion room, deliberately get to the Lib early, take a break together - even bring food to share - maybe have a time for discussion on essays - problems, share information, read drafts, have general bitch about how these people work us too hard...and go home late - possibly after a visit to the pub.

My target is to get a good draft of the mod essay out next week.

Sarahb

Rousseau link?

The article we've just read in Tradition about the friendship of Diderot and Rousseau and their different interests in the status of artisans...well, it seems a lot like Gandhi and his khadi movement. I had a brief peda-Google and it seemed that Gandhi spoke often of Rousseau's Social Contract but that his philosophical influences were Ruskin and Tolstoy (p.172)...any other links?
Sarah.

Happy Diwali Priya (New Year's day/Festival of Lights)

Hi All, Today is Diwali (New Year’s Day) according to the Hindu lunar calendar. There are heaps of events on at Federation Square. But the most spectacular is the amazing firework display at sunset tonight. See you there (I’ll be having dinner at one of the restaurants)
Below is the website for further details
http://www.celebrateindia.org.au

Diwali is the most popular of all Hindu festivals (also known as the festival of lights). It is dedicated to the goddess Kali in Bengal and the goddess Lakhsmi, the goddess of wealth in the rest of India. It is a significant festival for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains.
The festival also marks the victory of good over evil, and uplifting of spiritual darkness. Symbolically it marks the homecoming of goodwill and faith after an absence, as suggested by the Ramayana.

We're on for next Wednesday afternoon

Hi Everyone
Next Wednesday's strike (October 22) is for a half a day only. See you all at Ipm.
Our theme for next week is `The Representation of Women in Nationalist Discourse'

The suggested reading is Sinha, M. (2006) ‘Gender and Nation’, in, Morgan, S. The Feminist History Reader, Routledge, New York, Chapter 24, pp.323-339 and
Further Reading
Ramaswamy, S. (2003) ‘Visualising India's Geo-body: Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes’, in, Beyond Appearances?:Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India, Sage, New Delhi, Chap. 5, pp.151-189

Asia: Art Gallery of New South Wales: The Lost Buddhas

The Lost Buddhas: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Qingzhou
29 August - 23 November 2008
Asian Gallery, Ground Level

For more information of the current display, please visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales direct link http://www.asianart.com.au/exhibitions/current/lost_buddhas
Additional information such as brochures (which includes information about bodhisattvas) and displays about the exhibition are also available as well links to past exhibitions.

Gandhi's Speehes

If you want to read any of Gandhi's speeches, see chornologies of his life or read an enormous collection of quotations....then click here: http://www.gandhimuseum.org/sarvodaya/speeches/speechMain.htm

Sarahb

Critique of Edward Said's "Orientalism" - Quadrant Online Journal

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/9/wrong-from-first-to-last

The weblink above will direct you to an article published in the Quadrant journal on September 2008 by Michael Warby. This article has been reprinted from the journal online and offers a critique on Edward Said's, "Orientalism". There is a printable version icon at the bottom of the article if you wish to make a hard copy which you can use for your essay relevant to the appropriate topic.

SBS tonight 8.30: Subhas Chandra Bose

What a fortuitous coincidence that our exploration of Indian nationalism and the anti colonial struggle coincides with the screening tonight of the documentary about Subhas Chandra Bose, a leader in the Indian Independance movement, twice leader of the Indian Congress but also an ideological opponent of Gandhi's technique of satyagraha (non-violent resistance).
See tonight (Friday 10 October), SBS, at 8.30 pm, As it happened.....

A small note about next week's reading and the Partha Chatterjee site

Thanks Greg.
Sorry to say, but we are running behind.
Week 11's reading (i.e. next week is Chatterjee, P. (1986) Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World : A Derivative Discourse, Zed, Avon, U.K. Chap. 1, pp. 1 – 39 (also see class handout), and
week 12's reading is Metcalf, B&T. (2006), 2nd Ed., ‘The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939’ in, A Concise History of Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Also check out the following link for further information about Chatterjee, http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/chatterjee/holden1.html

Week 10 reading

Is everybody nice and refreshed after their break?

This week's reading is another big document divided into three parts.

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 1)

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 2)

Crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 (Part 3)

For those industrious people the further reading item by Robin Jeffrey can be found here:-

India: independence and the rich peasant - part 1

India: independence and the rich peasant - part 2

Speak to you next week.

Polyester -Just Can't Get Enough

Dear everyone, How's your holiday?
I've been to a few interesting events including an evening at 44 Errol St where I found very amazing. And I saw someone from our class as well. She was in the group performance, together gave so much joy to the audiences. Very sorry that I had to leave early as having to attend a meeting soon after that. But here I have photos and Video to show you. Cheers!

some sites to check out during your semester break

This is a new site coming out of Delhi and in its pilot stage :Kalasampada Digital Library - Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India. The aim of the site is to serve as a major resource centre for the arts, especially written, oral and visual source materials. It includes research and publication programmes of reference works, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedia concerning the arts and the humanities. Eventually they want to establish a tribal and folk arts division with a core collection for conducting systematic scientific studies and for live presentations and to provide a forum for a creative and critical dialogue through performances, exhibitions, multi-media projections,conferences, seminars and workshops between and amongst the diverse arts, traditional and contemporary. Take a look there is some very interesting material;
URL http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm

Also the site below is coming out of Chicago University. Take a look at the map section in particular the extent of British rule prior to Indian Independance;
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
the digital South Asia Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/index.html

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/index.html

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=106
for a map of modern religious reform movements in the 19th century

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=187
for a map of British territories held from 1807 until Independance

Week 9 reading

This weeks reading comes in three parts.

Part 1 - Nationalist thought and the colonial world ...

Part 2 - Nationalist thought and the colonial world ...

Part 3 - Nationalist thought and the colonial world ...

That's it for the term. Enjoy your break.

Remember the library is open from 8.30 - 5.00 during the term break for all your library needs.

I'm not quite sure if anyone has checked their own profile but I have and apparently from the information I put in out popped me ager 1940 years old (thought I was feeling tired) and my chinese sign rat but actually I am monkey....and I am an Aries apparently and yet funny enough I have been an Aquarian since birth....anyway I though come on google get it right....check your own and see if this has happened to any of you lot.

Jo

Wedding photos

As a fan of photography, Flickr and because I'm writing up an art assignment I found this artist and his collection of Indian-related work at http://flickr.com/photos/ashish100/. There are some lovely Hindu wedding photos.
Sarah

Doctor Who

Way back last millenia a John Pertwee story, Planet of the Spiders, was set in a Tibetan Buddhist meditation centre that mis-used the mantra 'Om mani padme hum' in order to summon giant spiders (especially The Great One) from from the planet - used to terrify me.

To find out about this very good story:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Planet_of_the_Spiders

For more on the meaning of the mantra and a funny buddhist story about humility on
http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/meaning-of-om-mani-padme-hung.htm

Hi All,

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to a Cambodian Festival that will take place at the Immigration Museum (400 Flinders St, Melbourne) on Sunday 14th September 11am - 4pm.

Please come along and enjoy the experience of Cambodian culture and Khmer traditions through dance, music, ritual and food. This one-day festival celebrating the Cambodian community in Victoria includes children’s activities, cooking demonstrations, traditional games and fun for all!

I will be a MC there. So if you see me on that day, don’t forget to say hi and have your camera ready. You know I’m about to tell you a top secret : ) Oh! Just kidding, not a secret but the truth is that I hope you could take a good photo of me on the stage.

Many of us, especially John, don’t know what I’m doing. Some may wonder why I seem to be very busy and sometimes look like not having enough sleep. Now, let me take this opportunity to briefly let you know something about me.

It’s true. I have a lot of things to do. As FairFax paper describes me, I’m a full time student, having a part time job and involving with some volunteering tasks. I volunteer for a charity organisation and involve with lots of activities that most of them are Cambodian related.

Last month was a very busy month but also a very successful one in terms of volunteering services. However, I felt a bit …. that I wasn’t able to fully participate in class. BUT you know, many unfortunate out there need our support. One month of working harder than usual can save thousands of lives. You too can make a difference!

Feel free to ask me HOW.

Reading and Questions :/

I'm confused about the readings and the like.

are we ment to be doing Zelliot this week or Dirks? i dont have the questions with me their at home :/ so im in the woods with a paddle, it just doesnt help.

and just for fun iv got work tonight, so i dont have alot of time to do the questions, i know im leaving it till too late but, well i did so now i need to fix it, any help out there?



PS Sarah iv braught in that DVD two times... in a row... and you havnt shown :/ im bound to forget soon, hope your ok.

Week 8 reading

Hi all,

Week 8 already. The link through Effy's e-reserve page for this reading does not seem to be working at the moment. I'll contact Footscray Park and ask them to update the link.
In the meantime this link should work.
Dirks - Castes Of Mind

Speak to you next week.

Indian Film Festival

If anyone would care to copy some details about the festival at the Nova for the next two weeks, that would be great. I have dial up and have tried several times to load the page, but it's just too slow! :(
http://www.cinemanova.com.au/

trip to India

I'm not quite sure if i told anyone this but when I travelled to India - Goa (a beautiful little place along the west coast below Bombay / Mumbai) I stayed in this share house and every morning i would get up early and go down to Vagatore beach and have breaky and go for a stroll until one morning whilst taking a journey around the rocks to cross over to another beach to meet a friend I smelt a horrible smell. I thought perhaps a cow must have fallen from the cliffs overhead and died, i was looking to see if I could find the source of this horrid smell and to my horror I found a dead body - human. At first everything seemed so surreal and I wasn't sure what to do - who do I tell, should i tell anyone etc will someone maybe think I had something to do with it. I felt frozen whilst staring at this body and then I was slightly curious, who was it? what was it doing here? I realised it was a female foreigner, just like myself. She had been floating in the water and drifted ashore maybe a day or two later, I won't go intoto many  details about the state of her body - it was quite shocking. I felt sad and nervous and scared all at once and decided to return to where I had eaten breakfast and inform the Indian guys that I knew there what I had discovered. I think I must have seemed quite casual but honestly it would have been that I was still trying to take it all in. Anyway the story i got later from the guys who spoke to the police was, she was a Swedish tourist only my age (which at the time was 21) and they weren't quite sure about whether or not her death was an accident i.e. drowning, and that they would investigate further. Later that evening all I could think about was, did her family ever find out, who was sad about her departure, why did this happen to such a young girl etc, and it gave me a little kick in the ass to remind me that life is precious and that death is no closer to the aged as it is to the young. We need to treasure that thought and make the most out of the time we have on this crazy planet.

Jo

P.S. My story is quite long and a little intense but I needed to get it off my chest and share, it's one of the first things I think about when I remember my 3 months in India.

There appears to be two of me... sorry, dont know how i managed that. Effy, could you please delete one of my accounts. I cant figure out how to.
:D

There is an Indian film festival starting Wednesday at the Nova. Don't know any details, just remembered reading it in a newspaper today.
Oooooooh.

EBook tips

Now that I know that it is easy to PRINT sections from eBooks, but tricky to SAVE from eBooks - except page by page or copy and paste into a Word doc - my life is transformed. Thanks for that info.

I have another tip...Effy's asked us a number of questions...use the SEARCH function to look for mentions of the terms she's listed...I'm not suggesting you shouldn't read the whole article...but this helps locate each term easily.
Sarah.

Borobudur

Here's UNESCO's site for this astonishing place: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/592
I think you can get 360 degree panoramas, but I think that might be beyond my current broadband speed until 1 Sept!

How could such a place be built? I think that about many of the world's enduring buildings.
Walking through this built madala would be like walking thorugh the universe.

If I could attach a document a few years ago an accquaintance sent me a vivd description of his visit to Borodudur and how he was completely overwhelmed by the crowds, heat humid, its size and the detail of its decoration.

Sarah.

Did you know??!

My sister and I were talking.. about INDIA! And she told me that the man that became Buddha 'awakened one', was none other then Siddartha Gautama.

Thought you might want to know that...

silk Road

Any one got a good map of the silk road? Surely lots of ideas travelled back and forth along here? Sarah.

Week 6 reading take two

Sorry if I confused anyone. The links for the week 6 readings are below.

Harvey - Introduction Part 1

Harvey - Introduction Part 2

There was also a further reading listed and the link for that is:-

Heine-Geldern - Conceptions of State and Kingship in South-East Asia

I think I have it right now.

Oops last week's strike has effected the weekly readings

Hi the Harman article is for week 7. This week's reading is Peter Harvey's article on Buddhism
Greg.....sorry about the mix-up

Week 6 reading

The link for the week 6 reading is below:-

Harman - Hindu Devotion

This is an ebook so you should be able to print out the pages you need at home. Pages needed are 99-121. You will need your ID number and PIN to access this record.

Any problems - there is a copy at the Info desk you can photocopy.

I'll be in touch next week with reading 7.

new film on Tibet

I just saw this and thought some of you may be interested. It can be viewed at the URL below.

"'Recollecting Tibet' - Documentaries Memories: Chronicles from acamera: A perpetual History.Over three years from 2005 to 2008, Photophormations worked with theTibetan government living in exile in Dharamsala, India making'Recollecting Tibet'. The Documentary examines and questions thestate of the Tibetan people living away from the spiritual homeland,surrounded by westernization and how tourism has been assimilatedinto their culture. The film travels to Tibet documenting the Chineseoccupation and the current climate of oppression. With religiouspractises being restricted in Tibet by the Chinese and many Tibetanwomen financially forced into prostitution, how can the Tibetanspreserve their heritage? The documentary travels to Kathmandu to hearfirst hand accounts from Tibetans escaping into Nepal each year byrisking their lives on the treacherous journey crossing over theHimalayas. Traversing through differing locations and times, the filmbecomes a visual chronicle of stories and events undertaken by oneobserver and camera. The narration reflects back upon the historieswitnessed leading up to the demonstration in March 2008 and beyond tothe perpetual past and future histories of the Tibetans. [...]Photophormations is a small non profit organisations: aninvestigative team who work in unstable environments around the worldproducing documentary, journalism, photojournalism and promotionalmedia for individual groups, NGO and organisations."Supplied note:"Hello Photophormations has just finished our documentary on TheTibetan situation which has been made over the last 3 years. To watchfilm go to link: [at the URL below]. We worked with the TibetanGovernment and many organisation's like the TYC and TWA inDharamsala. We would like to offer the film for your use in any wayyou wish to help promote the Tibetan situation during this time ofthe Chinese Olympics to help show what is happening in Tibet now. Thefilm has been on-line [at http://www.munen-mushin.com/tibetfilm.html- ed.] for the last 3 days [i.e. since 15 Aug 2008 - ed.], and causeda massive reaction world wide [...]. If you would like a copy [on DVD- ed.] please fill out the attached form [Not attached to thisabstract. However, it can be obtained from(k69hagakure--at--yahoo.co.uk) - ed.] and we can get you a copy. Wehave screenings on 17 differing [sic] television channels so fararound the world from Japan to Canada. [...] - ks."URL http://www.munen-mushin.com/film%20tibet.html

omg !!

hello everybodyyy
yes we are named after a nail polish
but its a professional range and its hot so its ok

i urge u to check the names of all the other polishes for a laugh

omg who bumps online, hello this isnt facebook

anyway.................. india ,india

if anyone wants to try some really good authentic indian food which comes to your table perfect every time! with darling waiters!
check out the delhi hut in sunshine!!
delish!

the William Harman reference

I received this email from Ivan regarding the Harman article. He seemed to have no problems printing it... Today I was able to log on to access the E-book using my normal library pin. I was able to utilise the option of printing more than one page at a time, a problem that encountered during the class. I clicked "Print" and a new window opened in which it gave me 2 options. The first one to put in the page numbers I wanted to print and the second option was to print each chapter individually.So it seems to have worked here at home without any problems, although 30 pages is alot of printer ink. Ivan

दलिस्तान Dalitstan reference

Unfortunately i couldn't find the original article by Amarag Ganesan titled `One Hindu race Theory debunked', which appeared at the followingly URL http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/hinduvata/htv000/one_hrtd.html
But try the following link. It certainly seems to be the same article;

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/events/nwav34/Abstracts/Samant&Ahmad.pdf

mera dosht

Indus Valley

This is a sight i found roughly a year ago with quite a few photos of the archeological digs there, if your interested have a look. http://www.mohenjodaro.net/


Effy i couldn't find that sight you told me about, the official one for Dravida Nadu, could you link it in here for me plz :D thanx

Nail Polish

Did you know the name of your blog is also a nail polish range?

Nail Polish

Heh, hi

/bump :D

Week 4 reading

Here is a link to your week 4 reading. Unfortunately because of its' length it is broken up into three parts.

A brief history of India (part 1)

A brief history of India (part 2)

A brief history of India (part 3)


See you next week for the week 5 reading.

All your library needs

Hi everyone,

This is Greg from the library (also known as the guy with the long hair). If you need any assistance with accessing your readings on e-reserve don't hesitate to come to the information desk. I'm always happy to help.
Enjoy your "Curry up don't be late" experience.

Welcome to curry up don't be late

Welcome Tradition and Modernity students.
The aim of the blog is simply to promote and facilitate on line discussion between students, and the posting of other items of interest that contribute to our exploration of South Asian traditions and modernities.