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Photo exhibition organised by the National Foundation for India

For India's Maximum City, the strike by mill workers is an old story by now. While it may have been one of the most significant battles in this metropolis, Mumbai has moved on to chasing Shanghai dreams. But bringing alive the life of the mill workers through pictures 25 years after the strike is a photo exhibition by the National Foundation for India (NFI).

Offering a chance to journalists to go beyond their daily deadlines to capture stories that will make a "difference", the NFI has the National Media Fellowship Programme. The exhibition that was inaugurated in the Capital on Thursday has pictures of two journalists who got the fellowship last year -- Ashish Raje and Sohrab Hura.

Ashish decided to spend time documenting the lives of the mill workers in changing circumstances, while Sohrab Hura captured the people who are still to feel the benefits of "India Shining''. This fellowship aims at creating greater awareness in the media about national development priorities.

Apart from giving Fourth Estate functionaries the opportunity to spend a year following stories that matter, the NFI also awards unsung heroes working at the grassroots with the C. Subramaniam Fellowship Programme. The C. Subramaniam Fellowship for the voluntary sector for 2006-07 was conferred on A. Kathyayani from Andhra Pradesh; Tabassum Parveen from Bihar; and Yakub Khan from Rajasthan.

Community leaders Bhanvar Singh Rathore from Rajasthan, Bhakta Batschal Mohanti from Orissa and Makeswar Rawat from Bihar were conferred the fellowship for this year.

"India has been on the wrong side of history for 400 years. India's time has now come. But there are cautionary notes to be made. There is also another India. It is important to understand what can trip up the India story,'' said the Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal, delivering the keynote address. He said there were three factors that can trip up this story: "Politics: it just needs a clutch of bad policies to trip up everything. The most important point is inequality: this needs to be bridged; otherwise we'll be in big trouble. The other factor is governance.''

The media fellows for 2006-07 are Chitrangada Chodhury, Rabindra Nath Joshi, Bhasha Singh, Anita Pailoor, P. K Prakash and Aparna Pallavi among others. -- Mandira Nayar

-- Mandira Nayar

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