The second CACIM Colloquium is being organised in August 2006 at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi with a select list of invitees and others who have associated with us in past.

Day 1 : Sunday, August 13 2006

• 11:00 : Arrival @ CACIM (A-3 Defence Colony) to travel together to Sanskriti

OR :

• 12 noon : Arrival directly @ Sanskriti (see map @ www.sanskritifoundation.org)
• 12:30 : CACIM Meeting starts, over light refreshments and then lunch @ Sanskriti
• 3:00 : Introduction to CACIM, and open discussion, Jai Sen
• 5:00 : Self introductions
• 6:00 – 8:00 : Explorations in the Idea of Critical Action and Thought : Poetry reading, Ashok Vajpeyi / Critical readings, Sundar Chaterji

• 8:00 : Dinner

Day 2 : Monday, August 14 2006

• 8:30 – 11:30 : CACIM and Critical Action : Creating critical spaces, Jai and Madhuresh
• 12:00 – 1:00 : Creating critical spaces in North East India, Sanjib Baruah
• 1:00 – 2:00 : Lunch
• 2:00 – 4:00 : A critical engagement with the world of Internet, Subbu (Subramanya Sastry) and T B Dinesh
• 4:30 – 6:30 : The idea of criticality in thought and art, Sundar Chaterji
• 8:00 : Dinner, and an evening together

Day 3 : Tuesday, August 15 2006

• 8:30 – 10:30 : Critical culture/s and creative excess, Sadanand Menon
• 11:00 – 1:00 : Creating critical movements – The world of environment and labour, Manju Menon
• 1:00 – 2:00 : Lunch
• 2:00 – 5:30 : Building CACIM – Ideas and Innovations; Looking ahead
• 6:15 : Departure from Sanskriti
• 7:30 : Gathering at CACIM (A-3, Defence Colony, New Delhi) for dinner

• Arvind Nair, Chartered Accountant, New Delhi
• Ashok Vajpeyi, Poet, critic, New Delhi
• Dinesh, T B, Software specialist (Servelots), Bangalore
• Jai Sen, Architect, Researcher, CACIM, New Delhi and Kathmandu
• Jeebesh Bagchi, Media practitioner, (Sarai), New Delhi
• Kalyani Menon – Sen, Feminist (Jagori), New Delhi
• Kavita Srivastava, Rights activist (PUCL), Jaipur
• Kishan Kaljayee, Editor, Writer (Bhartiya Gyanpeeth), New Delhi
• Leo Saldanha, Environmentalist (Environment Support Group), Bangalore
• Madhuresh Kumar, Researcher, CACIM, New Delhi
• Manju Menon, Environmentalist (Kalpavriksh), Pune
• Maya Krishna Rao, Dance-theatre activist, New Delhi
• Mukul Mangalik, History Teacher (Ramjas College), New Delhi
• Nivedita Menon, Feminist, Political Science teacher (Delhi University), New Delhi
• Pramada Menon, Sexual rights activist (CREA), New Delhi
• Prashant Bhushan, Lawyer, New Delhi
• Purushottam Agarwal, Literary critic and Hindi teacher (Jawaharlal Nehru University), New Delhi
• Sadanand Menon, Cultural critic, Chennai
• Sanjib Baruah, Political Science Teacher (Bard College, USA, & IIT Guwahati)
• Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Media practitioner, (Sarai), New Delhi
• Subramanya Sastry, Social activist (ESF – Environment Support Group), Bangalore
• Sundar Chaterji, Actor, director, Chennai

[Note : Everyone is invited in their individual and personal capacity only, Organisational names given in brackets are only for the purposes of identification.]