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INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES LAW FOR THE 21st CENTURY

With Special Reference to the River Ganges Basin 4-5 June 2001 PROGRAMME TIMETABLE -- 4 JUNE 2001 10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee Morning Session: Chair, Professor Surya Subedi, Middlesex University 10.30-10:35 Opening by Professor Michael Driscoll, Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University 10.35-10:45 Welcome by Professor Surya Subedi, Middlesex University 10.45-11.00 Key Note Speech by Professor Philippe Sands, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: "International Watercourses Law in the 21st Century and the River Ganges Basin" 11.00-11.20 "Problems and Prospects for co-operation between the Riparian States of the River Ganges Basin", by Professor B. S. Chimni, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 11.20-11.40 Discussion 11.40-12.00 Coffee Break 12.00-12.20 "The View of the Civil Society on the Law and Policy of the Riparian States of the River Ganges Basin", by Mr. Ajaya Mani Dixit, Ne

International House Yearbook

As a graduate student in New York, I lived in the International House, a house with 700 graduate students from all over the world. As part of my work-study, I worked as the videographer for the I-House, and shot the colorful cultural events and speakers who came to speak there. I also shot and edited the 2001 International House of New York Yearbook. The video features people as diverse as Fareed Zakaria, Bill Moyers, Gerry Adams, amongst others.

PANI (WATER) accepted to Flickerfest, Australia's premier short film festival

My documentary WATER was shown at the Flickerfest in Sydney in 2001.  F LiCKERFEST is  Australia’s leading and most respected short film festival, and is Australia’s only Academy® accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival.  Here's Flickerfest's website : www.flickerfest.com.au Flickerfest is an Academy Accredited Short Film Festival & BAFTA recognised Film Festival
REVIEW: FILM SOUTH ASIA '01, Festival of South Asian Documentaries New Abilities REVIEW: FILM SOUTH ASIA '01, Festival of South Asian Documentaries By Sushma Joshi Nepal is a country known more for its mountains and trekking trips than for its film festivals. You'd imagine that budget travelers would be more likely to be seen downing an apple pie en route to Everest than catching the latest at a documentary festival. But Film South Asia, the film festival of South Asian documentaries, has been drawing an eclectic crowd of residents as well as travelers since its debut in Kathmandu in 1997. The first four-day film festival, held in the cosy new theatres of the Russian Cultural Center in downtown Kathmandu, drew crowds of people for the latest documentaries from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Fifty-five documentaries were shown at the first festival, including Nusrat Has Left the Building, But When? Pakistan's Farzad Nabi's experimental docu-dra