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Are you a resident of Mumbai and/or its nearby surroundings?
Are you curious and enthusiastic about your city, your community and your locality?
Willing to explore this curiosity and/or concerns?
Ready for this exciting discovery along with your friends?
If your answer to all these questions is YES
then PUKAR has an opportunity for you!
PUKAR Youth Fellowship 2012-2013
We too are eager to learn about your ideas and thoughts.
Do come and have a chat with us to transform these ideas into knowledge for all!
Last date for application is MAY 15, 2012
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A talk by Prof. Arjun Appadurai Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Tata Chair in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Date: Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: New Conference Hall, Library Building, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Urban Aspirations in Global Cities - A collaborative project of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Max Planck Institute & Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research
Professor Arjun Appadurai is currently Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in New York City, NY. Arjun Appadurai served as Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives at The New School in New York City, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences.
Arjun Appadurai was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School. He was formerly William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Cities and Globalization at Yale University.
Prof. Appadurai is the founder and now the President of Board of Trustees of PUKAR.
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To commemorate 30 years of the textile mill workers strike, PUKAR hosted a talk by renowned play writer Jayant Pawar. Mr. Pawar gave a recount of his own experiences growing up in Girangaon and the impact that the mill strike had on his life at the time. He expressed his own aspirations for the future of Girangaon and encouraged youth of the area to work towards retaining its heritage and social fabric.
The winning entries of PUKAR’s essay & limerick contest were announced at the event. Devendra Pawar and Santosh Kadam, local residents of the area, won first prize in the essay and limerick contests respectively.
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To commemorate 30 years of the textile mill workers strike, PUKAR invites you to a talk by renowned play writer Jayant Pawar.
The winning entries of PUKAR’s essay & limerick contest will be announced at the event.
Venue: Dr. Shirodkar High School, Parel
Date: January 18, 2012.
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Please Join Us!
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The Healthy Cities, Wealthy Cities website has been updated to include most of the abstracts and presentations made by PUKAR and Harvard School of Public Health researchers at the International Conference on Urban Health. All of this work is based on research from the Kaula Bandar slum community. Presentations can be found on topics ranging from GIS mapping of the community to childhood immunization rates and adult obesity rates.
This is part of an effort to make our health research open-access and easily available online. Check out our work here.
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१७ डिसेंबर रोजी होणार्या डायलॉग सर्कलमध्ये युवक क्रांती दलाचे प्रमुख डॉक्टर कुमार सप्तर्षी ‘अभिव्यक्ती स्वातंत्र्य’ या विषयावर बोलणार आहेत. वेळ : साय. ४ वाजता स्थळ : पुकार ऑफिस, बांद्रा.
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