places to go

Ajoka Festival with the Lahore Arts Council (LAC) bring to you the Panj Pani Indo-Pak Theatre Festival,Amritsar, Punjab, India.
October 23 - 27, 2009 Festival Links http://www.ajoka.org.pk/ajoka/theatre.asp
www.ajoka.org.pk
Source: www.ajoka.org.pk
Ajoka has been part of the struggle for a secular, democratic just, humane and egalitarian Pakistan for the last 25 years. Few cultural institutions have been able to thrive, even survive, in the climate of hostility and apathy towards performing arts that has existed in Pakistan. ...


Ladakh Festival

September 1 - 15, 2010
http://www.reachladakh.com/festivals.htm

Assam

Poorvottar Natya Samaroah
March 26 - April 10, 2008

Gujrat
Saptak Music Festival Dance, Music January 1 - 13, 2009
http://saptak.org/

TAj MAhoutsav
Agra,UP
February 18 - 27, 2009

http://www.agra-india.net/
http://www.up-tourism.com/

PEOPLE's Voice

Ministry of Environment and Forestry announced today : “Based on all the information presented in the preceding paragraphs and when there is no clear consensus within the scientific community itself, when there is so much opposition from the state governments, when responsible civil society organisations and eminent scientists have raised many serious questions that have not been answered satisfactorily, when the public sentiment is negative and when Bt-brinjal will be the very first genetically-modified vegetable to be introduced anywhere in the world and when there is no over-riding urgency to introduce it here, it is my duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary principle-based approach and impose a moratorium on the release of Bt-brinjal, till such time independent scientific studies establish, to the satisfaction of both the public and professionals, the safety of the product from the point of view of its long-term impact on human health and environment, including the rich genetic wealth existing in brinjal in our country.

A moratorium implies rejection of this particular case of release for the time being; it does not, in any way, mean conditional acceptance. This should be clearly understood.”


Restoration in confidence in the voice of "Janta" !