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More often than not, Hollywood disaster films offer minimal substance, non-existent character development and excessive high-concept destruction—the equivalent to a roller coaster ride with spiraling loops, dips and upside down twists.
Among the three different approaches which foreign observers have utilized - like they were
coloured lenses - when imagining and describing India, the exotic trend appears to be the most enduring: it seems to have survived all fashions and epochs, and has been often resurfacing ever since, until today.
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defining depths, scaling heights. to upgrade our world, to new version - with new vision. feeling this world thinking of that future join to begin. here & now.
"Reception in a state of distraction": Mindfulness and Media.
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In light of increased accessibility and interconnectivity in the digital age, which have such deep effects on our cultural, social and psychological selves, there is a renewed sense of urgency to re-view the ways in which we connect our selves with both the real and 'virtual' worlds (and the one in between),so that we have a better sense of what it takes for us to regain a state of awareness and mindfulness in the midst of the exponentially growing world of information.
Viola Lasmana | 05.FEB.2010
In such a world where people are increasingly connected to one another via Internet technologies and new media such as social networking sites, e-mail, blogs, etc., and where our consciousness is constantly bombarded by information, quietude and stillness of mind have become rarities. On one level, today’s digital age has afforded us greater socialization on national and global scales via Internet technologies.... Read More
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The Act of Kindness
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Search the headlines in the dawn of this new decade and you’ll find countless examples of everything that’s wrong in the world today. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Genocide in Darfur. A deadly earthquake in Haiti. Recently, a friend commented, “The whole world’s gone to hell and there’s nothing we can do about it.” The acceptance in that comment troubled me. It’s not the first time I’ve heard the sentiment voiced.
Is there nothing we can do about it?
Debbie ouellet | 28.JAN.2010
The question stayed with me for some time. Let’s face it: the problems plastered all over the evening news are so big that whole governments can’t seem to find a way to correct them. What hope does a solitary person have in making a change for the better?... Read More
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Mukul Sharma has been a journalist, a writer, a trade unionist and a developmental professional. He writes in English and Hindi and has published extensively, including the book Landscapes and Lives: Environmental Dispatches on Rural India (OUP), Improving People’s Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia (Sage), No Borders: Journeys of an Indian Journalist (Daanish Books). His recent book published in 2008 by Routledge is titled ‘Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in SouthAsia.' He has received twelve national/international awards for his writings, the most recent being the Award for Excellence in Asian Print Media Writing by Singapore Press Holdings and Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Singapore. He is closely associated with the World Social Forum and the World Dignity Forum. Presently he is the Director of Amnesty International in India.
Miss Anderson considers herself a third-culture adult who was brought up in and educated among varying cultures. National and international travel experiences groomed her communication and interpersonal skills. Twenty years of the cross-cultural life on Guam birthed her dream of living on a tropical island and becoming a writer. There she wrote for local newspapers and business magazines and owned her own training and development company. Her university graduate and post-graduate degrees in Sociology, Human Relations, and Theology complement each other in her current project, which is filming a documentary—Looking for God in America.
Sangeeta Marwah is a writer, researcher and producer with a penchant for storytelling in its various facets and a keen inclination towards global film theory. She has over 5 years of work experience in the advertising industry, following which she pursued a second Masters degree in Media Arts from the US and worked for a year in Boston’s public access television network. She is currently residing in New Delhi but at various points of time has been fortunate enough to call Mumbai, Boston and Los Angeles as home. She is freelancing as a writer on various projects and contemplating a foray into doctoral studies, apart from working on her first screenplay.
Jeremy Sorgen grew up in Berkeley, California and has lived abroad in Colombia and France. He finished a B.A. in Metropolitan Studies and Philosophy in New York where he continues to live as a writer, researcher and advocate for human rights. His current interests are traveling, morality and power, salsa dancing, and pigeons. His writing combines ethics, cultural criticism and personal experience to expose the wrath and revelation of contemporary life.
For twenty years Erica Briggs was a traveling gypsy in America, moving from coast-to-coast and back again, including trips both north and south of the borders as well as a brief stay in Florencia, Cuba. She studied people of color in film at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her master's thesis from Cornell University explored the social construction of race in America. She taught creative writing at a correctional facility for girls in Lansing, New York and general education at a program for adjudicated youth in Micanopy, Florida. She had an extended tenure in the Black Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach where she taught creative writing and Black Theater.
Erica writes regularly on www.tothemthatlovegod.blogspot.com. Her favorite ministry is that of motherhood; her daughters, a four-year-old and an 18 year-old now in college, are a source of both pride and humility. The latter is how she seeks to live, a simple, highly spiritual life committed to learning through cultural exchange and healing through the power of the word. www.ericaabriggs.blogspot.com
Mariana Sabino has a degree in Media Arts and post-graduate specialization in Screenwriting. She writes short stories, screenplays, and poetry – some of which can be read in the literary journals Dogmatika http://www.dogmatika.com, Up the Staircase http://www.upthestaircase.org, and her own Greenbeard http://www.greenbeardmag.com
Jennifer Van Bergen was a legal/political commentator and reporter for TruthOut, Raw Story, Counterpunch, and others, and is the author of "Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious." She has a law degree and a Masters in International Education, and is working on her first screenplay.
Seandor Szeles, a graduate student at New School University encountered foreign film in a Theology in Cinema class where he studied the Italian Neo-Realist movement, an interest that grew when he spent a semester in Italy. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, he moved to New York and splits his time between school, writing and working for a multimedia production company in Chelsea.
Danielle has a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor's of Art in Religion from The University of Georgia, USA. Her work can also be found at cafebabel.com. She thrives on traveling, writing, singing, and being in the midst of good conversation. Ecumenicism is the driving force in her spiritual beliefs, and creating a forum for respectful interchange is a lifelong goal. Her home base is Athens, GA, USA, but she's usually traveling. When people question her lack of permanence in location she responds, "I don't choose to be homeless, I choose to make everywhere my home."
Author and poet, Debbie Ouellet lives in Loretto, Ontario, Canada. Her children’s book How Robin Saved Spring (Henry Holt & Company, New York) was named “Book of the Month” in Cookie Magazine and on Amazon.ca for April 2009. Her teen novel, A Hero’s Worth (HIP Books, Toronto), second in the Dragon Speaker trilogy for reluctant readers was published in September 2009. She is the chair of the Vaughan Poets’ Circle and editor of their 2009 anthology Earth to the Moon. Debbie’s poetry, articles and short stories have been published in The Writers Journal, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Scholastic Education Publishing, Poetry Canada, About.Com Poetry Winter Anthology, NoD Magazine, Inscribed, Cicada, Cricket, Chirp, and chickaDEE Magazines, and in the children’s book, Animals on Parade.
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