Friday Fundas
Our regular speaker and performer series in Vikhroli has become a popular fixture on Mumbai’s event calendar. Join us on select Fridays of the month for these events and tell your friends about them as well. Most of our events are open to the public with RSVP.
And above all, be fair!
US$43.6 million worth of cosmetics are purchased every hour in the world. Most of them are fairness, whitening and skin lightening creams bought in Asia. A lot of them are bought in Asian countries where lives were once proudly sacrificed to gain independence from ‘white people’. Why then has fairness become the standard for beauty in these countries? What are the socio-cultural and economic reasons behind the success of such products?25 January 2013
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Dr. Abhijit V. Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.7 December 2012
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Nush Lewis (hailed as Marie Claire India’s exciting young talent of tomorrow) is a contemporary Indian harpist who has trained at the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai. She has lived and worked between Chennai, Mumbai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. With three self-produced ‘bedroom’ singles in the form of ‘Blue Nails’, ‘Bright Orange Tea Cups’ and the appraised Shaai’r + Func mash-cover of 'Freeze You/ My Roots’, Nush’s music is influenced by the different cities she has lived in and the people she has met....30 November 2012
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What is it that makes us wonderfully human? The opposable thumb? An ability to use tools? Language? Maybe. But these factors do not quite capture our experience of being human. Sameera Iyengar argues that humans are strange creatures, who delight in discovery, revel in emotion, are given to flights of fancy, take joy in imagining beyond the obvious, and who need to be fulfilled in ways that are not only material. 23 November 2012
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Russia is the world’s largest country, a nuclear super power and the largest producer of oil and gas globally. It’s also the 'R' In BRICS - alongside India. It often conjures up images of super-rich oligarchs, the cold war, government protests, caviar and extreme cold. 9 November 2012
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Nimmi Rangaswamy is a social anthropologist and works for Microsoft as a researcher. She has a PhD from the University of Mumbai and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics. She has been part of the editorial team for the journal Economic and Political Weekly. The buzz words in her life include people, technology, ethnography and at this point in time, social media. Nimmi researches people and their social contexts and is currently obsessing over user generated content on Facebook, particularly from youth...5 October 2012
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Bishakha Datta is a Wikimedia Board member and the leader of the India-based non-profit Point of View. She has two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world and has completed her education from both Stanford University and Mumbai University. Wikipedia is as familiar to most of us as our daily soap – something we use and re-use every day without...28 September 2012
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Shiho Kito is an English and Photography graduate from Tokyo and London. She was awarded the Prime Minister's Initiative Funds from the British Council twice, in 2008 and 2010, for her residence program at the National Institute of Design in India. In this Friday Funda talk Shiho shared her experiences of India through her eyes. Her photographs had interesting stories attached to them. She talked about a landscape project ‘Pikari’ (shining in Japanese) that covered the light of Diwali in the city of...21 September 2012
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