Beyond Borders Sri Lanka, Launched!

21Dec08

After more than three years of being in existance — first as a project of the British Council, then as an informal youth collective, Beyond Borders Sri Lanka finally decided to form into a not-for-profit organization recently. To celebrate our little achivement, we had a little get together with BB-ites and our supporters.  We thank [...]

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Tags: Sri Lanka, Beyond Borders, British Council, Beyond Borders Sri Lanka, Youth-led Organization, youth-led, Voluntary

Towards Democracy, Peace and Open Borders – South Asia Youth Summit

19Dec08

 

The Liberal Youth of South Asia (LYSA) organized the first South Asia Youth Summit in New Delhi on 24th and 25th November, 2008 providing a platform for 100 youth representatives across South Asia to discuss and debate various issues confronting the region from a liberal perspective.
“We believe that we can set an example for our [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, India, Liberal Youth of South Asia, LYSA, New Delhi, Sri Lanka, Youth Conference

Censored, YAR

13Dec08

Yet Another Review (YAR) on Censored. This time, on the Daily Mirror. We thank  Shifani Reffai for the kind review, the entire article included below. ( Also see 6 six previous reviews)
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirise all orthodoxies, [...]

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Until Kids

09Dec08

A short film about thousands of kids who live in the Indian metropolis, work as ragpickers – living in waste. A Film by Swechha. Music by Raghu Dixit.

Also available on Youtube.

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Tags: Activism, Child Labour, India, New Delhi, Raghu Dixit, Ragpickers, Swechha, Youth

Censored on TV

06Dec08

Censored is now on YaTV’s No War Zone. Catch it randomly on ETV and TNL. For the moment, it’s available on youtube:

Update: Yatv also has the Tamil/Sinhala version up on youtube.

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“HIV doesn’t kill people, but stigma does” – based on a true story

05Dec08

Yes, that’s right. We being in the 21st centenary have still not been able to tackle the most integral part of HIV and AIDS and mind you that this is some thing people them selves need to sort out for the betterment of the man kind. Most importantly if we don’t do this today this [...]

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Tags: AIDS, HIV, Stigma

6 Reviews on Censored

03Dec08

The forum theatre we did couple of weeks ago seems to have generated some discussion both from the blogs and couple of  pieces in the mainstream media.

The Botomline, “Breaking the Silence”.
The Sunday Times Mirror Magazine, “space to address issues”.

and from the blogs:

Censored, uncensored — Sanjana Hattotuwa.
How the hypocrites change the coast of life — Deco
Freedom [...]

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Tags: Conflict, Forum Theatre, Freedom of Expression, Sri Lanka, Theatre for Development

Gagging the Web, The discussion

01Dec08

The discussion we organized with CPA, went OK.  Some thought there isn’t really much point in worying something as trivial as accidental internet censorship. Others argued it will give one more legitimate way of  arresting people and hence should be opposed.  Indi.ca has a post based on the discussion. Here’s an excerpt (ironically censored):
Under Emergency [...]

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