Manushi
welcomes volunteers and interns for work with the
Journal, as well as to take part in our activist
campaigns and organizational work through Manushi
Sangathan.
A)
The
Journal welcomes volunteers and interns who
can undertake the following tasks:
1)
Editing and proofreading;
2)
Layout and design;
3)
Art work, illustrations and photography;
4)
Translation of regional literature into
English;
5)
Correspondence with authors;
6)
Promotion and outreach campaigns, enrolling
new subscribers;
7)
Research and investigations;
8)
Fundraising
campaigns.
B)
Manushi
Sangathan is looking for interns to do:
1)
Organisational work with street vendors,
rickshaw pullers and other groups
of urban poor;
2)
Advocacy – human rights, legal
and legislative;
3)
Fund raising;
4)
Documentary film making which requires
the following skills:
a)
writing
b)
Videography
c)
Digital editing
5)
Preparation of campaign literature
6)
Identifying
new potential sources of support.
We
also welcome volunteers who can help with regular
administrative work in the office on a regular
or part-time basis.
Our
Expectations from Volunteers
There
are no special requirements for volunteers. All
we expect from volunteers is that they come to
a mutually acceptable arrangement with us that
commits them to a regular schedule of times and
dates and specifies the work to be done.
Requirements
for Interns
a)
Minimum 3 months full time or equivalent duration
of internship.
b)
Formal agreement with sending educational
institution as to joint supervisory responsibilities
and specification of the student’s
internship project prior to start of internship.
c)
Commitment to complete the project to the
satisfaction of both Manushi and educational
institution.
d)
Formal arrangements for visas, government
notifications, etc. to be responsibility
of intern and her/his educational institution.
Please
send us a letter or email including your background,
interests and how your work with Manushi fits
in with your plans for the future and we will
get back to you.
If
you have other ideas on how you can help Manushi,
please write to us at:
Challenges
of Governance and
Globalization in India
(Oxford University Press)
MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR
Deepening
Democracy brings together essays on enduring
issues such as human rights, governance,
and the impact of globalization on the Indian
citizen. The covers a range of issues from
a glimpse of the License-Permit-
Raid Raj as
it affects the livelihood of the selfemployed
poor, to a critique of India’s farm and
economic policies. It further discusses the new
divides being created by the country’s language
policy to the causes and possible remedies for
ethnic conflicts in India (Read
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•
Women Bhakta Poets:
Contains
accounts of the life and poetry of some
of the most outstanding women in Indian
history from the 6th to the 17th
century — Mirabai, Andal, Avvaiyar,
Muktabai, Janabai, Bahinabai, Lal
Ded, Toral,
Loyal. Many of these poems had never neen translated
into english before (Read
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