tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754026062319008530.post3172124680732226208..comments2023-10-27T14:32:31.330+05:30Comments on MAND - an adivasi-rights research and resource centre: Hanging Indias under tin sheet roofMANDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228423045409612374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754026062319008530.post-47605748783528817622010-05-09T17:55:47.744+05:302010-05-09T17:55:47.744+05:30The response to Yashu's comment can be found a...The response to Yashu's comment can be found at the links below:<br /><br />http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/2010/05/wow-this-is-my-india.html<br /><br />Sebastian RodriguesMANDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228423045409612374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754026062319008530.post-67738010588657403062010-05-09T17:40:57.829+05:302010-05-09T17:40:57.829+05:30Dear Sebastian,
Sorry for responding to your emai...Dear Sebastian,<br /><br />Sorry for responding to your email this late...was here and there.<br /><br />As i might have told you already, we retained the instillation for another day in lieu of getting some of our worker-friends to come and see what we had done with their maps and journeys.<br />Amongst many, we were particularly keen on having - Avtaar Singh, a father figure to us at the labour camp and Sanjeev from Midnapur, an excellent cook... these 2 we thought must visit the exhibit and tell us many many things...<br />You would have noticed their maps: Avtaar Singh's map which had Germany marked on it. He had worked there for two years btw 82-85 and Sanjeev's map had lines which criss-crossed the whole country...like many others from Midnapur.<br />We are really close to these 2 and thought of this as the right occassion to invite them to strengthen and clarify.<br /><br />We had invited them while collecting the maps, we reminded them a week in advance, we informed them a day before the event, we called them on the day of the event, we asked if we could atleast arrange an auto and slyly bring them from inside routes.... but the over powering fear of the contractors, Navyuga in this situation( hired by BMRCL to construct the new-imagination of Bangalore) was too strong to allow this to happen.<br />Avtaar, told me that he had been working day and night shifts for the last three days hence it would be difficult for him to get out....Sanjeev was nervous to get out of the camp as they were instructed not to make contacts with anybody from the outside...<br /><br />For the first time... in a very provocative way... it became very apparent to me that the 'role' i play will always be controlled by this 'structure' more carefully then ever before.. <br />The systems have gotten tooo tight...the migrant's life will always be controlled and maintained by the systems of the corporations supported by the state...their not allowed to bring their families, they are not allowed to make friends with outsiders, they are bunched up together, they are supposed to just build our cities and move on...<br />Their maps are also a poignant reminder of how their lives are always in movement...the only definitive space is the village which is distinctly placed on each of their maps...<br />Avtaar and Sanjeev couldnt come...it bothered us quite a bit...as for the first time after a year of this work we got to display our work...it worries me ekta, rumpi about how we are going to share the final film with them... as they are here today and gone tomo...their addresses are as temporary as them in my city.<br /><br />We pulled down the maps one by one with care, unwinded the bulbs and bought down the tin sheets...<br /><br />i got your email the next day...felt a bit better..your memories have a significant impact on my present tense...<br />As Wim Wenders puts it:<br />"The 'broken' buries itself deeper into memory than the 'whole'. The 'broken' has a kind of brittle surface which one's memory can grab hold to. On the clean surface of the 'whole', memory slips away." <br /><br />I read your email a lot of times...feel a bit re-assured<br />Hope to meet you soon some time and chat a lot more about it:) <br /><br />Thanks Riju for the pics..really needed them:)<br /><br />Love<br />YashuMANDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228423045409612374noreply@blogger.com