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Issue 06                                                                   

 October 2005


Friends of Freedom Ranchi

  • FOF Ranchi organised a Group Discussion on "Strikes and Bandh called by different groups" on 2 September.  26 students participated.
  • FOF Ranchi organised seminar on "ARE WE REALLY FREE" on eve of "Independence day" on 16 AUGUST at Rotary Hall, Ranchi.  The Chief Speaker was Mr Harivansh (Chief Editor, Prabhat Khabar news paper).  Other speakers included Dr. VP Sharan, Head of Department, Political Science, St. Xavier's College; Dr. Sanjay Singh, Political Science, St. Xavier's College; Director IAS CIRCLE, Ranchi.

    Seminar was organised in two sessions:
    1st session: Speech by all 3 speakers
    2nd session:

- Documentary screening of Zarina (Best Student Film, Jeevika 2004)
- Presentation on "Are we really free" by Rajan
- Open house discussion on the topic of seminar.  3 best speakers of open house discussion: Sudhakar, Firdaus and Babita were awarded prizes.

49 students were selected to participate on basis of interview by FOF executive body, because seats were limited 50 and interested students were 90.  There was huge local press coverage apart from local news papers, e-tv , Sahara news and local news cannels covered the program.  All the participants were given certificate and one CCS publication based on freedom.

  • After the success of the above program, Rajan was also invited to talk on "Why is India Poor?" at the Rotary Club and his old school. 
     

Kapil Anshul, FOF Ranchi Coordinator anshulkapil@yahoo.com
Rajan Kumar Singh, Assistant Coordinator rajan_asast@yahoo.co.in
 

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