ITALIAN PIANO CONCERT IN KOLKATA, DELHI, CHENNAI & PUNE

If you in Kolkata today and enjoy Piano, Jazz, the Dalhousie Institute, Ballygunge in the evening today. 

Piano Tales

Enrico Zanisi, the 26 year old from Italy is now in India to showcase his Jazz stories by the name of Piano Tales, an information received by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura New Delhi (ITALIAN EMBASSY CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI)

Here are the 11 songs from Mr. Enrico Zanisi which he is going to play across Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Pune. 

PIANO TALES (2016 Cam Jazz)

1. Ouverture
2. Uma Historia
3. Mirage
4. Cut It Out
5. Mà
6. Palabras
7. Stairs
8. No Truth
9. Morse
10. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
11. O Du Mein Holder Abendstern

He was the highest scorer at classical degree in piano.  His interest in jazz music started at the age of 15; he attended many jazz clinics around Italy studying with K. Werner, J. Calderazzo, L. Grenadier, P. Markowitz, M. Stamm and other great American and Italian musicians.


He can be reached here. 

info@enricozanisi.com
marcellospinetti@libero.it

He has played with several musicians: With his trio he played in  Italy, Europe, Dublin, Warsaw, Edimburgh, Albania, Oslo, London, Katowice, Rejika, Rabat Morocco, Tunisia, New Delhi, Blue Frog - Mumbai (India), San Juan (Portorico), Harare (Zimbabwe), Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Istrael), Brasil and Mexico, Manhattan, 


Calcutta\Kolkata

Enrico Zanisi

TODAY - 27th November 7:30 pm,
The Dalhousie Institute, 
42, Fazlul Haque Sarani, Ballygunge

Delhi
28th November 6:30 pm
India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg

Chennai            
2nd December 5:30 pm-7 pm,          
KM College of Music & Technology, 19 Vinayagapuram 2nd Street, 
MMDA Colony, Arumbakkam

Pune
4th December 7 pm,
Poona Music Society, 2 Lt. Col. Tarapore Road

Pic Source- http://www.enricozanisi.com/

Call for Abstracts by Sarai – Lives of Data Workshop

‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. 

Call for Abstracts

‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data will finally see the ‘end of theory’. This hyperbole has it that the new technologies being developed today can produce truth based on computations of large amounts of machine readable digital data. Beyond such deterministic claims, the ‘Data Revolution’ indeed poses compelling theoretical and methodological challenges in all fields with stakes in knowledge. The present conjuncture, we would argue, is loaded with possibilities for rethinking ‘data-driven knowledge’ through longer histories of classification, enumeration, quantification, techno-scientific practices, and forms of media storage, retrieval, computational analysis and use.

Scholarship in the emerging field of data studies has established close connections with science & technology studies (STS), and media and software studies. There is now a growing body of work which questions the Big Data hubris and the excesses of the post Web 2.0 digital deluge. ‘Raw Data’, as Geoffrey Bowker and Lisa Gitelman among others have suggested, is an ‘oxymoron’. In the Indian context, concerns about statistics, governance and knowledge, evident in the histories of colonial census, the work of P C Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Planning Commission, the emergence of scientific computing in the 1950s-60s, government regulation of media, electronics and telecom, provide a vivid background to think about the new technics, materiality and aesthetics of our digital cultures.

In times when Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have passed their initial developmental hype-cycles and mobile phones have somewhat flattened the so-called ‘digital divides’ (while creating many new ones), the fields of information research in India are grappling with socio-technical reconfigurations of a widening scope and scale. The projections and contestations around our much promoted march towards a #DigitalIndia with the world’s largest biometric database (#Aadhaar); a nation-wide digging campaign for broadband connectivity in villages and the building of one hundred #SmartCities; and the intense pursuit of the ‘Next Billion’ users by a floating array of large technology companies and startups (#FreeBasics, #StartupIndia); have inundated the space for reflection and critique. The many known and unknown lives and after-lives of data in this ecosystem of flux demand description, interpretation, concepts, and – if the data permits – theory.

In the past Sarai has organised workshops on ‘Social & Cultural Lives of Information’ and the ‘Lives of Information’, to reflect upon the cultures of information practices and the connections between colonial and post-colonial information infrastructures in South Asia. Continuing our focus on contemporary realities, ICTs and infrastructures, the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop aims to encourage research on pertinent questions concerning ‘data’ – its imaginaries, infrastructures, knowledge politics, and techno-science and media cultures in India and South Asia.

The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop hopes to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to examine the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in Indian and South Asian contexts. We are interested in a conversation which dynamically moves back and forth in science, technology and media history and anthropology to reflect upon the many layered abstractions and materialisations of data, information and knowledge.

The key questions which the workshop will explore are:

– What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted?

– How do we map the relationships between data, infrastructure and knowledge production?

– How do we reimagine data and information through longer histories of statistics, bureaucracy, governmentality and development?

– What are the stakes involved in analysing the ever increasing volume, velocity, variety and value of data? How do practitioners understand the changing nature of their work with data?

– How do we conceptualise the new data publics?

Workshop themes include:

– Histories of State and Statistics, Classification, Enumeration and Planning

– Data Analytics, Data Ontologies, Digital Objects

– Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences, Cultural Analytics

– Cultures of Software Engineering and Design

– Data, Memory and Materiality: Archives, Paper/Digital Databases, Warehouses, Data Centres, Server Farms

– Thinking through Digital Infrastructures: Hardware, Code, Meta-Data, Formats, Protocols, Programming Languages, Information Architectures, Algorithms, Apps, Interfaces, Platforms, APIs, etc.

– Data-Driven Urbanism: Geographies of Mobile Computing, Locative Apps and Social Media, GIS, and Smart Cities

– Openness, Transparency and Access to Data/Information/Knowledge. #RTI #OpenData #DNAProfiling #Copyright #Encryption #Privacy

– Platforms as Government: Transnational Networks of Intermediaries and the Flows of Data/Capital

– ‘SysAdmin’ like the State: Bio-Politics, Surveillance, User/Citizen, Governance, Policing and Law. #Aadhaar #ITact #CyberSecurity

– ‘Beautiful Data’: Design, Aesthetics, Vision and Visualisation

The Sarai Programme invites submission of abstracts for the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop. Besides academic researchers, we strongly encourage media, design and software practitioners to apply for the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to dak@sarai.net by 15 September, 2016, with the subject heading ‘Proposal for the Lives of Data Workshop.’ Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by 01 October, 2016.

The workshop will be held on 06-07 January, 2017 at Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi. The Sarai Programme will cover three days of accommodation for outstation participants. In addition, participants from India will be eligible for travel support.

Source- http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-lives-of-data-workshop/

Enroll Your Business On GST Website - One Nation One TAX- Slogan by Modi

The concept of One Nation and One TAX is certainly one of the biggest tax reform, we have seen in recent decades, perhaps after the independence. Our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, had announced the demonetization of old Rs. 500 and Rs. 100 bank note denominations on November 8th (last week) and before that, in our previous session, a common consensus on GST was unanimously passed in the Indian parliament. Now people can enroll their business on the official GST government website- https://www.gst.gov.in/ starting now to avoid last minute rush. 

According to the PMO official website, Modi said that in the last session, a major decision on #GST was taken and the parliament did made a major contribution towards realization of the dream of "One nation, One tax.". He added by saying that when all parties work together in the larger nation interest, positive outcomes and results emerge. The press note adds, "The consultation process has been going on ahead of this session as well. Government is ready for open debate on every issue and we hope that it will create a conducive atmosphere for significant and fruitful decisions."

The entire draft of the GST law is available here at the Finance Ministry website. According to Ernst and Young, the GST will become a potential game changer.The site says "GST will be a game changing reform for the Indian economy by creating a common Indian market and reducing the cascading effect of tax on the cost of goods and services. It will impact the tax structure, tax incidence, tax computation, tax payment, compliance, credit utilization and reporting, leading to a complete overhaul of the current indirect tax system.

GST will have a far-reaching impact on almost all the aspects of the business operations in the country, for instance, pricing of products and services, supply chain optimization, IT, accounting, and tax compliance systems." 

As per WikipediA

The tax system is very complex in India and pretty archaic and in need of a complete overhaul. According to the Wikipedia  

The Demonetization Saga In India - Issue 2000 Banknotes By RBI on 8 November

By now all of us must have visited your nearby ATM and gotten your own money. Thanks, to an unprecedented move by the GOI in the month of November, Rs.500 and Rs.1000 Rupee notes are no longer valid and not to be legal tender anymore, after the midnight of November 9th.  In a Press Release  issued by the RBI- Reserve Bank Of India, combined by a nationwide address by Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, the Issuance of ₹ 2000 Banknotes and scrapping of the old notes came as a surprise, shock and people were clueless what they need to do next. 

The Reserve Bank of India has issued new ₹2000, ₹500, ₹1000  denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, without the inset letter, bearing signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and the year of printing '2016' printed on the reverse of the banknote. The notes also have "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo.The new denomination has Motif of Mangalyaan on the reverse, depicting the country’s first venture into the interplanetary space. The base colour of the note is magenta. The note has other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.

The salient features of the banknotes will be as under:

Obverse (Front)	Obverse (Front)	Reverse (Back)
1. See through register with denominational numeral 2000 2. Latent image with denominational numeral 2000 3. Denominational numeral २००० in Devnagari 4. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre 5. Micro letters ‘RBI’ and ‘2000’ on the left side of the banknote 6. Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘भारत’, RBI and 2000 on banknotes with colour shift. Colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted 7. Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards right 8. Denominational numeral with Rupee Symbol, ₹2000 in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom right	9. Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (2000) watermarks 10. Number panel with numerals growing from small to big on the top left side and bottom right side For visually impaired Intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, bleed lines and identity mark 11. Horizontal rectangle with ₹2000 in raised print on the right 12. Seven angular bleed lines on left and right side in raised print	13. Year of printing of the note on the left 14. Swachh Bharat logo with slogan 15. Language panel towards the centre 16. Motif of Mangalayan 17. Denominational numeral २००० in Devnagari Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm × 166 mm

Alpana Killawala

Principal Adviser

Press Release : 2016-2017/1144

Source- https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=38522