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This is a conversation which took place a few months ago.  Posting it since there is so much on other websites.  Sort of keeping up!  Hope you enjoy it, and do add.

Subject: A conversation about corruption

I am reproducing here an FAQ about nuclear power that I had written two years ago for Kannabiran and which was probably translated into Telugu.

Frequently Asked Questions about Nuclear Power

This is the text of a conversation about blasphemy and bigotry that took place a while ago.  I am posting it for further discussion and intervention:

Srinivas Vellikad is a friend who has been associated with Anveshi since the past several years.  He was instrumental in establishing an early version of the library software.  Since the past year Srinivas has been working pro bono with the Anveshi library catalog and has found a way to put it successfully on line.  He has collaborated with Lakshmi, Adley and Srivats in a fairly complex coordination between the Library software, the web site software, the available freeware on the web to complete this task.  To see the results please click on Library in the menu on the left, and then click on Catalog.

It has been a pleasure to work with Seenu and we hope to continue this association in the future.

Seenu would like to describe himself as follows:

This is a forum for sharing notes about Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) based on a reading of the hypertext resource available at www.hegel.net.  Inevitably, the reading will involve references to his Science of Logic, to Phenomenology, and to commentators like Marx, Lenin, C.L.R.James, Erdmann, Westphal, and others.

It has been set up as a separate Google Group because it is organized as a structure that follows the table of contents of the volume.

Go to forum

Adley Siddiqi is our honorary consultant who has taken charge of the Anveshi website -- very decisively and nicely since the past two years.  The website was designed by him in collaboration with Jayasree Kalathil (in London) and with Vasudha and Lakshmi Kutty (at Anveshi, Hyderabad) who painstakingly put together the write ups and descriptions from different sources.  Adley has the habit of goading us into action on the website -- and that is a good thing, since we tend to sit around on non-top-priority items of the agenda.  This is how Adley would like to describe himself:

Adley is famous for taking Jayasree Kalathil away from Anveshi :)  Has been working in IT for entire working life - which is a long time. Currently running a small web development company called Icreon. Half Pakistani. First got to know India whilst working as a volunteer for 2 years with an NGO in Orissa called Gram Vikas where he met Jayasree. Can usually be found lying in his hammock.

Dear Friends,

Happy New Year! Welcome to the new initiative on the Anveshi website.  Starting January 2010, we will be maintaining a section of our website for blogs from fellows, members and other interested writers.  The website will be devoted to academic and activist matters, and will operate according to different criteria.  Some will be open forums in which comments from readers will be displayed directly.  Others will be more like seminars, where first preference will be given to invited respondents, after which general comments will be accepted.  We need to work out the modalities and practices to make sure that both of these forms work.  As with everything at Anveshi, this is an experiment.  Let us make the most of it in the different domains the organization's work.  We would be happy to put up for discussion any opening suggestions or comments that you may have. 

Best Wishes Again
Anveshi Blog Team