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    Over the last two years, the corruption pervading India’s government has received remarkable media attention, thanks, in part, to scandals surrounding the Commonwealth Games, 2G telecom licenses, and the Adarsh housing society. This has shaken the complacency of many citizens who heretofore saw bribes and kickbacks as an inevitable part of daily life, and has provided fodder for the anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare.

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  • Beneath Our Dancing Feet: A Dilemma of Conscience in Practicing the Art of Bharatanatyam

    Practicing Bharatanatyam in India today means negotiating a dance form with a sensitive past and a problematic present. It means living with appropriations and dealing with notions – inherited, construed, and sometimes fallacious. It also means addressing history and navigating identities of class and sexuality.

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    This year marks the six year anniversary of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s landmark right-to-work program. The act guarantees one hundred days of paid employment to every rural household in India (up to 850 million people), regardless of eligibility criteria, and establishes the government’s flagship welfare program with an allocated central government cost of 401 billion rupees (or $8.9 billion USD) in 2010-11, which accounts for 3.6 percent of government expenditures.

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CASI Announces Winners of 2012 Travel Funds Competition

The travel funds for 2012 will be distributed among 16 Penn students. The travel funds assist Penn students to participate in volunteer internships with Indian NGOs or conduct independent research projects in India during the summer months.

A total of eleven Penn students have been selected for internship programs. There are three winners for the CASI-Aravind Eye Care Systems Summer Internship in Tamil Nadu; three winners for the CASI-Educate Girls Summer Internship in Rajasthan; two winners for the CASI-Chirag (Central Himalayan Rural Action Group) Summer Internship in Uttarakhand; two winners for the CASI-SPS (Samaj Pragati Sahayog) Summer Internship in the Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh; and one winner for the CASI-Dasra Summer Internship in Mumbai. The Aravind Eye Care Systems, Chirag, and Educate Girls partnerships were introduced this summer.

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CASI offers summer travel funds for current Penn students interested in traveling to India to pursue volunteer internships with CASI partner organizations or conduct independent field research during the summer months.

Penn Interns on Film!
Learn more about CASI summer internships by watching two videos (Chintan and SPS) on 2011 CASI interns Abby Waldorf, Laura Brown, Keena Kang, and Julie McWilliams as they share their experiences from the field.

Have you ever asked...
How a hospital in India can conduct 300,000 eye surgeries a year, half free of cost?
What are some of the biggest barriers to educating girls in rural India?
How can a rural community's demand to develop be balanced with a call for environmental preservation?
What will it take for an NGO to scale and deliver better services to more people?
How do policies play out in a rural context and provide day to day livelihoods for rural communities?

Applications for Summer 2012 Internships have closed
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