Dear Young Friends,
Anhad is
organising a National Youth Convention from October 5
th to 8th in Delhi. The venue for the Convention is
the Indian Social Institute.
We had circulated a letter in June 2006 requesting
young people to send suggestions about the probable
topics that they would like to discuss during the
youth convention. After going through hundreds of
suggestions that came from across India we have worked
out a tentative schedule (attached with this letter),
which is being fined tuned.
The convention would like to arrive at a possible
future course of action for secular interventions and
build a network of communication among secular youth
groups and activists.
The convention will also study the present National
Youth Policy 2003 (NYP) and prepare a critique of the
same. All the participants who register will be sent a
copy of the NYP in advance so that they can read it
and prepare a response to it before they come to the
convention.
All the participants would be divided into groups for
most of the sessions. Each group will have two youth
facilitators and one senior expert from the field. The
participants will get a chance to share their
experiences and interact with other participants and
the experts. There would be a number of parallel
sessions and participants can choose which session
they want to be a part of. Every such session at the
end would have presentations by representatives from
each group followed by a plenary session with the
experts.
Format for the group discussion would be the
following:
Expert will introduce the subject
Discussion and sharing of ideas
All groups combine- 5 minutes to change seating
arrangement
Each group to make a presentation
Experts – one from each group- form a plenary and
panel discussion follows with a question and answer
session.
There would be some combined sessions where different
experts would come and speak. Every combined session
will be followed by a question and answer session.
There are no formal sessions after dinner .Facilities
for showing films, space for interaction and transport
to take the delegates back will be made available till
11.00pm.
All those wanting to participate in the convention
should register (form attached) latest by September
25, 2006. The registration fee is Rs.100. Participants
will have to bear their own travel expenses. Anhad
will make arrangements for their stay, food and local
transport. We can register only 200 participants due
to the space constraints.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Sincerely
Shabnam Hashmi
Schedule
5th Oct-Day 1
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Inaugural Session
3:30-4.00 Tea Break
4.00-5.00 All participants divide into
groups- participants are introduced to each other
coordinated by Youth For Peace Facilitators.
5.00-8:00 Secular Politics in India
(Four parallel Sessions)
1. Indian Secularism : Theory and Practice
2. Relevance of Gandhi in Contemporary India
3. Legacy of the Freedom Struggle
4. Scientific Temper & Obscurantism
8:00-9:00 Dinner
9.00-11.00 Screening of Film followed by
discussion
6th Oct-Day 2
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-1:00 Assault on Secular Democracy
(Four parallal sessions)
1. Ayodhya: What is the
dispute? What is the solution?
2. Kashmir: What is the
dispute? What is the solution?
3. Gujarat: Rebuilding
Justice and Hope
4. War on Terror: Local,
National, International
(with a tea break at 10.30)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00- 3.30 Myths & Realities (combined
session)
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00- 5.30 Myths & Realities (combined
session)
6.00 onwards Screening of Film Khamosh Pani
followed by discussion
8.00-9.00 Dinner
9.00-11.00 informal interaction/ screening
of films/ cultural programme by participants
7th Oct-Day 3
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-1.00 Inequalities in Our Society
(Three parallal sessions)
1. Gender Justice for all communities
2. Understanding Caste, Class and Discrimination
3. Globalisation and Poverty
(with a tea break at 11.00)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-5.00 Discussion on National Youth
Policy
5.00-5.30 Tea break
5.30-8.00 Screening of Film ( name to be
confirmed) followed by discussion
8:00-9:00 Dinner
9.00-11.00 Informal interaction/ screening
of films/ cultural programme by participants
8th Oct-Day 4
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-1.00 What does it mean to be an
Indian? (Same session in four parallel groups)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4.00 Future Strategies
4.00-7.00 Free time
7.30pm onwards Peace Concert
(For Registration form write to Mansi dev or anhad_delhi@yahoo.co.in)