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Uganda Stories - Interview with Sunil Shah
No full textUntitled, (2012) from the series Family Stories © Sunil Shah In this interview, the artist Sunil Shah recalls the process through which he envisioned his Uganda Stories series (recently exhibited at the Pitt Rivers Museum in the UK), which he sees as "a form of post-documentary storytelling". The project started in 2012 from the examination of the material - photographs and objects - his family brought to the UK or left behind while forcibly leaving Uganda - a country where his family from Gu..
Sunil Kotecha interviewed by Janya Shah, 15 September 2013
No full textThe son of a Ugandan-Asian, Sunil discusses how the migrants have kept their culture and heritage alive in England and his own trip to Uganda in 2008 to visit his father's hometown of Bugiri
SDG 12: A long way off from changing how we produce and consume
No full textAn outline of a study done on the formulation of Sustainable Development Goal 12, on sustainable consumption and production; done (as was this blog) by Des Gasper, Amod Shah and Sunil Tankha, as part of a broader study of SDGs formulation, led by the New School of Social Research in New York and the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Oslo
SDG 12: A long way off from changing how we produce and consume
No full textAn outline of a study done on the formulation of Sustainable Development Goal 12, on sustainable consumption and production; done (as was this blog) by Des Gasper, Amod Shah and Sunil Tankha, as part of a broader study of SDGs formulation, led by the New School of Social Research in New York and the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Oslo
Plurality, Identity, Democracy, Globalization... A conversation with Sunil Khilnani
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Rossella Ciocca interviews Sunil Khilnani author of the much appraised The Idea of India: one of the best non-fictional introductions to the complexities of politics in contemporary India. The strengths and weaknesses of present-day uneven modernity are discussed around a few strategic topics. First of all plurality, which in its linguistic, cultural, religious, ethnic variety has been vindicated since Independence as a foundational value, is seen as the quintessential resource for achosen practice of syncretism but also in danger of becoming the very source of fragmentation and implosion in a country increasingly maimed by fundamentalism and fanaticism. Democracy is then interrogated between the comfortable perspective of the firmly established and normally operating mechanisms of democratic routine, on the one hand, and the flawsof a still dramatically unjust system of distribution of rights and opportunities, on the other. Identity politics is in turn analysed both in its positive action of mobilizing society around the problem of social upgrading and in its unwelcome side effects of increasing practices of rigid and restricted classification fomenting division and violent sectarianism. In the end Indian growing cultural appeal upon the globalized scene is questioned in its complex relationship with the country’s quest for a role of protagonist in political as well as economic affairs upon a new multilateral international stage
Developing ophthalmology in Cambodia
No full textOver 180,000 Cambodian people are blind and a further 10,000 suffer avoidable blindness each year. Ninety percent of this blindness is avoidable, 79% is curable and 11% is preventable. Three-quarters of this blindness is due to cataracts and the remainder is due to uncorrected vision, glaucoma, corneal scarring and pterygium. The Khmer Sight Foundation (KSF) is a charity reincarnated by Professor Sunil Shah and Sean Ngu. Its mission is to deliver a sustainable eye care model for the country. KSF takes a three pronged approach to this. It is working to develop sustainable eye-care within the country through building physical infrastructure. The second approach is to impact the current cataract backlog of over 300,000 patients with the aid of international support. Thirdly, KSF is paving the way for the next generation through the development of an optometry education programme and training of Cambodian ophthalmologists. Here we present the workings of KSF, clinical cases we have encountered and elaborate upon the future goals of this charity
, Sunil Kumar Shah
No full textAbstract: Puberphonia is a rare disorder, in which the patient manifests higher register voice than others of their same age group. Manifestation is less in women than men. The prevalence is 1 in 900,000. Apart from impact on voice of patient, puberphonia also has impact on the psycho-social aspect. Different treatment modalities have been put forward in the past, many of which lack validity and EBP. Voice therapy has proven to be the most effective in the management of puberphonia. Voice Handicap Index (VHI) is a tool for assessing the perceived handicap by the patient. VHI has 3 parts and overall score of 120 and individual subset has score of 40 each. Result: Patient who received voice therapy obtained better score on the overall scale as well as on each subsets of the VHI. Conclusion: The study concludes that the voice therapy not only improves the voice quality of the patient, but also improves the quality of life of the patient. The impact of voice disorder (puberphonia) is most prominent on the emotional section
The Fight Against Government Secrecy
No full textLocal journalist and author Miranda Spivack has a new book out, Backroom Deals in Our Backyard: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back. Sunil Dasgupta talks to Spivack about the book, why transparency has been a persistent problem in government, and how the public can fight back. Music by Washington art-pop rock band Catscan!https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UrBdTiUInvcV3xXgjK1R
The Long and Continuing Fight to Save Public Education
No full textEpisode · I Hate Politics Podcast · With school boards around the country under attack from right-wing extremists, a veteran Silver-Spring based education reporter and author, Karen Chenoweth, has founded a resource to help school board candidates and school board members fight back. Sunil Dasgupta talks to Chenoweth about her website democracy-education.org and her mission. Music from Finster.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gUiArNXgofhVTx1vweJE
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