Caption: Subsidies aren't enough. Farmers have to buy a major chunk of their requirements from privately owned shops, where their expenses are substantially higher. © Surya Sen
T Minus A Month
It's tax season. In a month's time the IRS will be expecting your paperwork. Have you filed yet? It's painful, I know, but it has to be done. For the last couple of years, I have had Vijaya Muzumdar at Taxolution help me out. Her clients are mostly artists and freelancers and so she knows how we operate and where and how to legally get money back.
The great thing about her is her prompt responses when we call. And unlike other tax consultants who bill by the hour, Vijaya is always available to connect with throughout the year. As circumstances are bound to change, it's great to have such a wonderful and pleasant resource to clear your doubts and sleep better at night.
Vijaya doesn't have a web site – something that I hope changes soon – but her contact information is: 908-276-0150. Please tell her TIFFINBOX sent ya.
If you haven't got your act together, with invoices and receipts from 2004, you may want to check in with her about getting an extension. If you owe the IRS, you will end up paying a small percentage as a fine, but that's better than not getting it done at all.
I suspect this sounds like an infomercial, but trust me Vijaya hasn't asked me to plug her business. I wouldn't recommend anybody if I wasn't genuinely thrilled or impressed with what they had to offer.
Down To Earth, 7 of 10
Caption: At a mandal office of Obuladevara Chervu, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, farmers queue for groundnut seeds. Each farmer can get a maximum 120kg of seed, this is not enough. Each hectare of land requires 144kg. In many such offices, agricultural officers have been beaten up for lack of subsidised seeds. © Surya Sen
Asian American Literary Awards
Each year, The Asian American Writers' Workshop honors outstanding achievement in Asian American literature through the Annual Asian American Literary Awards. Now in their eighth year, the literary awards are again taking submissions for eligible works in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
The postmark deadline for submitting work is Friday, April 22, 2004. Please read through the guidelines below to see if your work is eligible.
Books may be nominated by literary agents, publicists, or authors. All entries must be accompanied by an application form. To download an application, please check this page.
To find out more about the literary awards, visit the AAWW website.
Men In The Movement
Sakhi, Breakthrough & The New School present a screening of the film MAYA on March 18, 2005, 6:00-9:30 p.m.
“Maya is a powerful film by filmmaker Digvijay Singh that depicts community silence around violence against young girls – and the power of a young boy’s questioning. We look forward to your participation in a stimulating discussion on the involvement of men in the movement to end violence against women.”
The movie will be shown at 66 West 12th St (between 5th and 6th Avenues) Room 407. This is a FREE! event, though seating will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Men in the Movement to end Violence Against Women, a discussion moderated by Sunita Mehta, Founder of Women for Afghan Women will include the following speakers: Jon Gilgoff, Educational Alliance and Joe Samalin, Break the Cycle
This event is co-sponsored by Sakhi for South Asian Women, The New School, Lifetime TV’s “Stop Violence Against Women Week”, and Asia Society.
Fanatical Husband
Amitava Kumar reads from Husband of a Fanatic on Thursday, March 17, 7PM @ The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A, (between 5th Ave & Broadway), New York City.
“In Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate (The New Press, 2005), Amitava Kumar examines the Hindu-Muslim conflict in South Asia: hatreds and intimacies joining Indians and Pakistanis, Hindus and Muslims, fundamentalists and secularists, writers and rioters. With a poet’s eye for detail, Kumar draws a map of violence, moving from the wars and nuclear rivalry dividing two nation-states to the more blurred relationship between two religions and their adherents.”
Amitava Kumar is the author of Passport Photos (U of California Press, 2000) and Bombay-London-New York (Routledge, 2002) and the editor of the anthology, Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2003). His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, and the Times of India, among others. Kumar is the scriptwriter and narrator of the prize-winning documentary film, Pure Chutney.
The event is cosponsored by The New Press, South Asian Journalists Association, and NYU’s Asian / Pacific / American Studies Program & Institute.
For more information, contact the Workshop at 212-494-0061 or visit the AAWW site.
Job: Multimedia Internship With Shana Dressler
Photographer and multimedia producer, Shana Dressler, is looking for committed interns to work on various projects associated with her multimedia installation on the Ganesh Festival in Bombay which is in development. Interns are invited to help Shana prepare for a WNYC radio show on Ganesh music on March 31st, a slideshow at the United Nations in May and the preparation for a full scale installation which is in discussion with a New York museum.
Please contact Shana about this opportunity.
A Cookie Jar
This is quite a feat folks. Rajan Sedalia, the illustrator behind the comic strip, “A Cookie Jar,” is having his work now distributed through uComics.com.
There is one in the series that has a group of sperm going down the wrong path while a disgruntled ovary looks on. The tag line is delivered by the sperm who collectively say “Has anyone asked for directions?” Just brilliant.
Bloomberg Workshop
Via Sree Sreenivasan
The Bloomberg College Editors' Leadership Workshop at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, is now accepting applications for the 2005 workshop. Details here. Application deadline is April 15, 2005. Write to workshop director Dr. Nancy Beth Jackson for more information.
Down To Earth, 6 of 10
Caption: For the debt-ridden farmers of Andhra Pradesh, buying seeds is expensive yet inevitable. © Surya Sen
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