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The Shivaji Exhibition draws Schools and youngsters alike.

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The Shivaji Exhibition has caught the attention of Mumbai schools. School students have been flowing in all through with their teachers guiding them through the rare manuscripts and paintings, explaining them stories from the Folklore as well as History and showing them around the various forts. The forts and the rare documents are catching the childrens' attention for a while. Apart from the schools there have been nature clubs and hikers and trekkers with cameras comming in to shoot the panels of rare documents. A trekker I have been talking to has been vowed by the variety of the exhibition while the Nature lover wants us to do an exhibition on Environment Terrorism. There are the teachers who wnt the exhibition to stay in Mumbai and travel to their schools so that the children especially 4th class and above get a chance to see and travel through History. So by the time we are closed on 18th evening 6:30 pm the Visitors count is 4,900 and counting. See you soon Mumbai (June 20t

Tibet Crackdown: Events in New Delhi, Bombay (March 17, 2008)

Tibet Crackdown: NEW DELHI Friends of Tibet, All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum For Tibet and Core Group for Tibetan Cause invite you to a press conference on India's stand on Tibet and proposed intervention by the Indian Government on this issue, with Kiren Rijiju, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha). Members of the All Party Indian Parliamentary Forum For Tibet and Core group for Tibetan Cause will also address the press. Venue: Press Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 Program: 3pm Tea, 3:30 Short film screening on Tibet followed by Kiran Rijiju's statements and a Q&A session Demands: We request the Indian government to allow the March to Tibet to continue unabated. In light of the critical situation inside Tibet, where China is preparing its 'people's war' against unarmed Tibetans, we also call on the Indian government to put pressure on the Chinese government to abstain from using force in Tibet and immediately and unco