Lets hope for the best to come.On 12/17/12, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, didn't receive your mail. > In nutshell, forms are out in late Fab or Early March,Entrance exams > take place in the month of May, cleare it and join the university in > the second half of July. > If applicant applies for MPhil PHD programme, then one has to go > through Viva process with well-prepared Synopsis after sailing through > entrance exam also. > for more, come up with your queries off the list, will assist you to > the best of my capacity. > > On 12/17/12, Ekinath Khedekar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Avinash, >> >> I had requested you to help me to understand admission process of JNU. >> Did you receive my mail? >> >> Rgds >> >> >> >> >> On 12/17/12, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Chris Friend is head of the Right to Read Campaign of the World Blind >>> Union >>> Monday, 17 December 2012 >>> >>> >>> DATELINE – This is a decisive moment for sight-impaired people like >>> me: men and women who are seeking to expand our minds and to >>> contribute to the societies in which we live. We still cannot enjoy a >>> book or a periodical unless it has been produced in braille or a >>> large-print edition, or transferred to an audible format by a human or >>> artificial reader. But our lives may be about to change for the >>> better. >>> >>> It is difficult for me and many other sight-impaired people to grasp >>> that, in this age of personal computing, digital information transfer, >>> 3D printers, and narration software, our access to publications that >>> we can read remains unnecessarily restricted. >>> >>> In India, for example, about 100,000 new book titles were published >>> during 2009; but only around 500, or 0.5%, were made accessible to the >>> country’s millions of sight-impaired people. In francophone Africa, >>> some of the places worst ravaged by river blindness and other diseases >>> that attack the eyes, the share of accessible publications for people >>> like me is less than 1%. In the United States, Australia, and the >>> European Union, accessible braille, large-print, and audio titles >>> account, at best, for 7% of the total number of publications. >>> >>> But the problem is worse than these numbers suggest. Under existing >>> copyright restrictions, titles accessible in the richest countries >>> remain inaccessible to readers in the poorest. In too many cases, a >>> copyright-protected audio book produced in France or Canada, for >>> example, cannot legally be shared with a college library in >>> francophone Africa for use by blind students. Argentina and Spain >>> cannot legally share their 165,000 accessible titles with libraries >>> for Spanish-speaking blind people in Chile, Columbia, Mexico, >>> Nicaragua, and Uruguay, which together have only 8,517 titles. >>> >>> This restriction is absurd, and it causes unnecessary hardship. In >>> India, sight-impaired doctoral candidates have abandoned their work >>> only because they lack sufficient access to the necessary texts. At >>> state universities in Africa, libraries have nothing to offer blind >>> undergraduates, or any other blind people. Noah Kabbakeh, one of my >>> vision-impaired colleagues in Freetown, Sierra Leone, needed four >>> years to complete a two-year master’s program in the social sciences, >>> not because he is unable to grasp the material quickly enough, but >>> because he had to earn money to hire someone to read aloud textbooks >>> and other class materials that any seeing graduate student could have >>> obtained from the university library. >>> >>> Given the obvious need, and the availability of technologies to meet >>> it cost-effectively, one would think that publishers and officials >>> charged with the protection of intellectual property would quickly >>> embrace an agreement that would give sight-impaired people broader >>> access. One would think that college and public libraries, and other >>> open depositories, would have books already being produced and made >>> accessible elsewhere. >>> >>> Over the past four years, in a United Nations-sponsored process, teams >>> of negotiators specializing in intellectual property have been >>> struggling to draft an agreement that would allow, for example, blind >>> people, organizations for the blind and other institutions to share >>> books for the blind across borders. The General Assembly of the World >>> Intellectual Property Organization is tentatively slated to conclude >>> this agreement next June. >>> >>> But the key moment has already arrived. On December 17-18, negotiators >>> are scheduled to meet in Geneva to decide whether this agreement will >>> take the form of a simple, workable treaty or some kind of non-binding >>> “soft law.” >>> >>> Sight-impaired people around the world desperately need a lucid, >>> workable treaty, and not a “soft law” encumbered by caveats and >>> riddled with loopholes that favor copyright holders rather than >>> balancing publishers’ rights with the needs and rights of the visually >>> impaired. The European Union, after years of refusal, finally agreed >>> in November to support a treaty; it should now press for clear, >>> implementable language that will allow organizations to share braille, >>> large-print, and audio books with each other and with people whose >>> disabilities make them unable to read. >>> >>> The negotiators from the US, whose backing is crucial, have yet even >>> to pronounce the word “treaty” during the drafting process. It is time >>> for President Barack Obama’s administration to see what we see and >>> allow its negotiators to press for adoption of a legally binding >>> treaty. >>> >>> Chris Friend is head of the Right to Read Campaign of the World Blind >>> Union. >>> >>> Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2012. >>> www.project-syndicate.org >>> Reproduced By >>> http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7469:let-the-blind-read&catid=1:opinion&Itemid=76 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Avinash Shahi >>> MPhil Research Scholar >>> Centre for the Study of Law and Governance >>> Jawaharlal Nehru University >>> New Delhi India >>> >>> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility >>> of >>> mobile phones / Tabs on: >>> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>> >>> >>> Search for old postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>> [email protected] >>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please >>> visit the list home page at >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> “The waves breaking on the surface draw all the attention, >> but it is the current beneath the water that determines your direction.” >> >> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility >> of >> mobile phones / Tabs on: >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> > > > -- > Avinash Shahi > MPhil Research Scholar > Centre for the Study of Law and Governance > Jawaharlal Nehru University > New Delhi India > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > >
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