ASIA
A Cargo of Questions 1992
India
Khajuraho is a small village surrounded by Hindu temples. It is on the tourist route by air, Delhi/Agra/Khajuraho/Varanasi, therefore it is somewhere even if it is in the middle of a place we might call 'nowhere'!
KHAJURAHO
Khajuraho is a small village surrounded by Hindu temples. It is on the tourist route by air, Delhi/Agra/Khajuraho/Varanasi, therefore it is somewhere even if it is in the middle of a place we might call 'nowhere'!
Information Wrap
If Mr Chandra Shekar, the former Prime Minister is to be believed, the only objective of the multinationals (MNC's) is to take India for a ride. He explodes the myth that MNC's bring in huge foreign investment when they enter a country. Figures reveal that over 60% of the total equity capital of MNC's operating in India comes from earned profits. The way to do this is to convert reserves (accumulated profits over the years) into bonus shares. The strategy in the 70's was simply to beat the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) enacted in 1973. The Act forced many MNC's to reduce their holdings to 40% or face restrictions if they wanted a higher stake. While most of them agreed to follow the 40% limit, the Indian companies started issuing bonus shares in rapid succession so that the quantum of dividend repatriation of MNC's was not reduced. They also used their considerable clout to force the subsidiaries in India to depend entirely on the parent company for raw materials and capital goods requirements. A myth, according to the document, is that foreign MNC's help in increasing Indian exports. Foreign direct investment is oriented primarily towards producing abroad for the domestic markets of host countries rather than towards exporting.
THE TIMES OF INDIA, February 26, 1992
World heritage
Whose world?
Whose heritage?
Hidden environmental and economic stresses for rural communities
Whose world?
Whose heritage?
The politics of destruction!
Temple or Mosque?
A Cargo of Questions 2017
The LODE project of 1992 and the Re:LODE project of 2017 is about generating questions that begin with places.
To every place there belongs a story . . .
To every story there belongs another . . .
Is capitalism historically inseparable from colonialism?
Culture is our business!
Poverty among occupational groups in rural areas is the highest among agricultural labour at 40%, followed by other labour at 33% and the self-employed in agriculture at 22%.
Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims
Measuring poverty?
Does capitalism function through the expansion of frontiers?
Even as global carbon emissions remained stable last year, India's emissions rose 5.2% in 2015
Ramayana
World literature and popular culture?
This blog-post is a matrix that originates first in the context of an artistic activity that relates to this place, Khajuraho, and then connections multiply through processes of association, suggesting links, articulations and juxtapositions that the contemporary information wrap affords us, in a particular and contemporary type of consciousness, where the "loop" or "ricorso" helps the zig zagging necessary to see what is going on.
That's just the way it is . . . but don't you believe them . . .
To every place there belongs a story . . .
World literature and popular culture?
This blog-post is a matrix that originates first in the context of an artistic activity that relates to this place, Khajuraho, and then connections multiply through processes of association, suggesting links, articulations and juxtapositions that the contemporary information wrap affords us, in a particular and contemporary type of consciousness, where the "loop" or "ricorso" helps the zig zagging necessary to see what is going on.
That's just the way it is . . . but don't you believe them . . .
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