eCatalyst
A quarterly e-newsletter by & for CCS Graduates
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Issue 06                                                                   

 October 2005

Happy Diwali to all CCS graduates & interns from the CCS Team!

eXpressions
 

City Beats

Updates on Friends of Freedom groups

CCS encourages graduates of seminars to form local groups on campus and their city called "Friends of Freedom." The FOF provides a chance for all seminar graduates of one city to interact with each other, deepen their understanding of liberal ideas and policies and also get other students onboard the freedom express!  If you want to start an FOF in your college/ city, download the "Getting Started" guide and contact Mana (mana@ccsindia.org) right away!
 
1. Ranchi by Rajan Singh
2. Amritsar by Rishi Kochar
3. Mumbai by Ayesha Ganguly
4. Delhi by Swati Chawla
5.Ahmedabad by Nisha Shah
6. Chennai by Dhanuraj
7. Changanassery by Rose Mary Abraham

Flashback
Graffiti
To look out for
  • First LSSs in Hindi & Gujarati: To expand the geographical and language diversity, we are organising the first regional language LSSs in Ranchi (Hindi) on December 8-11 and in Mangrol, Gujarat on December 22-25 (Gujarati in collaboration with Action Research and Community Health)
     
  • Jeevika 2005: Make docus on livelihood, check out resources & ideas! Deadline for entries, December 1! Also screen the documentaries already in stock covering a variety of livelihood issues including environment, gender, rural development, urban services. 
     
  • Liberalism in Life Competition:  Stir up your creative juices and send an entry for this unique competition for only CCS seminar graduates.  You may even get selected to attend a week long seminar in US organised by the Institute for Humane Studies (www.theihs.org) Deadline for submission: December 31, 2005
     
  • Sign the online Livelihood Freedom Petition
Three Cheers for the Catalysts
  • Our summer interns 2005, Vipin Veetil, Anil Ramprasad and Shruthi Jayaram have been selected to participate in an international seminar on No Education to be held at Gummersbach, Germany from 13-25 November. They were a part of 65 online participants out of whom 29 have been chosen to attend.
  • Dhanuraj (LSS Cochin 2003) & Rishi Kochar (LSS Delhi 2002) have been nominated by CCS to attend the LYSA Regional Workshop on Understanding & Spreading Liberalism at Kathmandu from 23-29 October 2005. 
  • Yavnika Khanna (LSS Delhi 2003, Intern 2004) was the only female selected from an Indian university to attend the South American Business Forum, held at Buenos Aires from 12 –14 August organised by the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires. She was selected on the basis of her internship paper on "Stifled Voices on Airwaves".

If you have an achievement you want to share, such as competitions won, events participated in, articles published, grassroots activities initiated do email it to us!

Networthy

The Institute for Humane Studies has brought out Independent Study Guides on different disciplines. Click below to open up a flood of interesting reading:

Bibliophile
 

From the Editor....

Dear Readers:

Reaching out to you, quarter by quarter is a great experience in itself. Thanks to the enthusiastic, young and astute readers who write to us, eCatalyst became a reality from a mere idea. Now the biggest news is: eCatalyst will be available in your hands, in news print pretty soon.. So, if you have any suggestions or exciting write-ups do contact me at ccsecatalyst@yahoo.com.

As you know, after the next issue, the best and the most enthusiastic literary contributor to eCatalyst ("THE Catalyst") will be awarded, as a part of the "First Anniversary Celebrations of eCatalyst". In addition, we will try and bring out a profile of "THE catalyst"- offering him or her the fifteen minutes of fame!

But as usual, basking in the glory doesn't come easy-email your literary write-ups and libertarian insights right NOW! The next deadline being December 30, 2005- which is not far away really!:) In the words of Fat Boy Slim: "Push the tempo.."

In liberty,

Yavnika Khanna
Editor, eCatalyst
 

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