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Majlis means association in Hindustani. The word is commonly
used with subtle different connotations in Urdu, Punjabi,
Bengali, Arabic, Persian and many other languages of the
continent. Our center is a people’s forum- fluid, flexible,
layered, inter-disciplinary and multi-cultural.
The beginning of Majlis lies in the women’s movements of the
’80s. The founders of Majlis are trained and honed by the
euphoric beginning of the feminist consciousness of that era.
Since then Majlis has grown in the most non-linear fashion -
responding to concerns of cultural practices and rights
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Centre for Rights
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centre for rights discourse has been engaged in a comprehensive
programme for securing the rights of women and marginalised
segments. In order to make rights and legal provisions in
protection of those rights, accessible the centre functions
through multiple layers of litigation, pedagogy, campaigns,
academic inputs and support to women lawyers from
non-metropolitan background.
Contact:
Flavia Agnes, Audrey D’mello, Dolly Mendonca, Pooja Kute,
Nausheen Yusuf, Vikka Shah, Asha Rodiyal,
Vaishali Gadekar, Amritha Shetty, Shobhana Nikaljay, Surekha
Jadhav, Anita Irani, Kainaaz Daruwalla, Sindhu Nair
Nagpur Office:
Rekha Barhatte, Shamsi Haider Zaidi
District Lawyers Project:
Nirmala Chaudhary
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Centre
for Inter Disciplinary Art Initiatives |
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The centre was officially inaugurated in 1990 with a women’s
cultural festival titled Expression in Mumbai.
The center functions primarily as a production, distribution and
mobilisation unit countering the globalised market onslaught as
well as opposing the hegemony of privileged cultures. The
programme towards this goal range from fellowships for artists
to film/theatre/visual arts/CD-Rom productions to facilitating
various initiatives towards archiving to pedagogical activities
to mobilizing art initiatives in the fora of political
articulations.
Contact:
Madhusree Dutta, Hansa Thapliyal, Sunil Tandale, Narayan
Nimbalkar and Shikha Pandey. |
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