Dear Friends,
I am happy to report that the R2R campaign in Chennai was well attended and
well publicised. Almost 800 persons both vvi and non vi turned up from
colleges around the city. We had reporters from TOI, The Hindu and the
Deccan Chronicle cover the event. The NDTV Hindu- local Chennai channel will
telecast this in the news. They are also having an interview of us in their
prime time slot from 20:00-21:00 tonight, so all those who live in Chennai
could watch this on TV. Our Chief Guest was mr.Shreekumar Verma, the great
grandson of Raja Ravi Verma and a well known writer and dramaturtist- he
immediately offered all his writing to be converted into accessible formats
and has voluntered to write about this issue. There was a signature campaign
which was started- Loyola College and the entire NSS team of Chennai have
offered to try and get 1 lakh signatures on this- lets keep fingers crossed.
After the Inauguration , we had a panel discussion where Prof Shivaraman,,
advocate Mr.Vijay Kumar and Mr.Dipendra Manocha participated. There was a
brief Q&A session with the audience, followed by a small orchestra programme
and the programme concluded with lunch.
I would like to thank all of you in Chennai who attended the programme and
made this possible. Above all I would like to thank Loyola College without
whose initiatives and commitment this event would not have been possible. I
look forward to making the next series of events more successful with inputs
from all. The web site for the campaign is righttoread.in. Request all to go
there and give feed back, comments etc. There is a declaration form which we
are requesting persons to sign.
The complete report of this event shall be ready next and uploaded to the
CIS web site. I shall send the link as soon as that is done.
Cheers, Nirmita
Nirmita Narasimhan
(Programme Manager)
Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560 052
P: +91 80 4092 6283 F: 080 41148130
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