I’ll be flying to Bengaluru this week for the VizChitra workshop. You can know more details about it from the video above or and buy tickets here: Chitra Lekha.
I watched Kubera movie today. It’s about crony capitalism with a lot of socio-political references. I felt that the last 20 minutes could have been better. It is a very sincere movie, and it has been a while since I watched such an honest attempt.
The reading of the Kanyasulkam play is going great!
I was pleasantly surprised to read about the work done by Ananda Gajapathi Raju, the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, against the practice of Kanyasulkam (~bride price). He ordered the collection of "data" on the prevalence of this practice in his region. Accordingly, 1034 events of Kanyasulkam marriages were recorded over three years. This included an age breakdown of the age of the girl. Here is an excerpt from the preface of the play.
"𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦, 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘸𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦!— 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘣."
Long before data-driven governance became a fad, people interested in governance have always collected data in some form or other. You need data to solve the problem at hand. There are many problems we are yet to solve in this country. Hope we have the Census done soon :)
I sat with my brother to get him started on APIs and programming. I also learned to use the Sarvam Translate API with that. Here is the tutorial he wrote: Link
I am learning to tell scrolly tales. I thought I would finish it this week, but it has a steep curve. Here is a very good example of a scrolly tale: Measles scrolly tale