Benny lava (hindi/english or Henglish)

Been home in Sweden now for little over a week. And my brother sends me this video, which I wished that he would have done before I went over there because then I would have understood what everyone was saying.

It’s an eyeopener isn’t it?
Hindi is easy!

The forth Question from Lauria Meadof

The fourth question comes from Laurie Meadoff
Laurie Meadoff is president of and partner in NextNext Entertainment and an executive producer of Chat the Planet. She has executive produced programming for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, HBO Family, MTV and VH1. Passionately envisioning a world without barriers and prejudice, Ms. Meadoff strives to build bridges through tolerance [...]

Writen about our projects

From our friends at Pangea Day
http://www.pangeaday.org/post_article.php?article_id=64&from=home#comments
http://www.pangeaday.org/post_article.php?article_id=50&from=home#comments
http://share.ovi.com/media/PangeaDay.film/matthewtrost.10002?sort=5 (Video Interview)

Freesoftware : Out of the box
http://freesoftwareexperiences.blogspot.com/2008/05/out-of-box.html

Professor Ranjan NID Ahmedabad
http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/2008/04/kaospilots-at-nid-and-in-mumbai-design.html

TED.com TEDblog

India Express
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/In-Dharavi-a-celebration-of-dreams-unlimited/308243/
DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1163631

NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx (video look for the 3rd or 4th artikle)
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080049580

Me and half a billion = true

Like many of you know the Pangea Day global film festival was yesterday. We in our little KaosPilot group, together with Pelle spent our night with people in the Dharavi Slum, Mumbai. While the rest of our co-pilots sat at the official screening in Colaba (hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did). [...]

Riding with the Godfather

It’s countdown time for the Global Pangea Day festival. T-minus 24 minutes. I’m sitting like a king on a thin concert sky bed with a view over the big screen and the people who are excitingly awaiting the big moment. We are all together inside the Community & Education centre in Dharavi where we’ve [...]

Dharavi Flyer made by yours truely

I made this flyer to give to the people in Dharavi. To be able to get them to come to our Pangea day show.
Where are you watching the show?

Useless Facts!

I found a website with some useless facts (bold ones) today and I started thinking how is that compared to India? (and some own thoughts)

1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
-In India people get married because their parents tell them to
2. Einstein couldn’t speak [...]

Homeless in India or in Iceland- you choose

This post is about the difference between the homeless in Iceland and the rest of the world.
Walking down the streets of Colaba in Mumbai is an experience like no other I´ve had, although Rumania had their share of baggers as well. Some thoughts come to mind when I’m out like:
God damn! I’m a poor student [...]

Some information about our work

We attended a youth festival called Yuva vividha last weekend where we introduced our projects to the Indians. Say It Out Loud, where we asked them to talk to our camera about what they wanted to change in the world. People from 4,5 up to 77 years old told us their dreams and how they [...]

Indian humour

A joke an Indian told me today
“What two words get the most letters?”
(Hold on to your hats people)
Post Office!
I had such a hard time faking my laugh that soda almost came through my nose. -Although the Indian postal service is some what of a joke just see the description that my team mate Sophie has [...]