{"id":12453,"date":"2013-07-22T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T05:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2013-08-16T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T06:30:32","slug":"open-spaces-book-tasting-event-held-at-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/open-spaces-book-tasting-event-held-at-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Space\u2019s Book Tasting event held at Trivandrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Space a Youth initiative at Trivandrum has organized a<strong> \u2018Book Tasting\u2019<\/strong> session\u00a0 at the Press club Trivandrum on 20th July where the work of Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018<strong>An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions<\/strong>\u2019 was featured.\u00a0 This event is Open Space\u2019s first in the series of discussions on the latest and the most thought provoking books of today.<\/p>\n<p>At the event John Samuel, Global Advisor on Democratic Governance, UNDP reviewed the book and MG Radhakrishan of India Today and other eminent scholars, highlighted their perspectives followed by an open discussion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12473\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\" wp-image-12473\" title=\"Open space trivandrum\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/07\/Open-space-trivandrum-768x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/Open-space-trivandrum-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/Open-space-trivandrum-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/Open-space-trivandrum.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos: Hareesh Jayakumar (EnteCity.com)<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The book explores the widening gap between the rich and poor in <strong>India<\/strong> and compares the situation with that of China, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It also raises concern about the new media that is corporate owned and caters to the affluent and the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of open space in holding the book tasting session is to build a platform for communication and dialogue on issues related to social justice and sustainable development. According to them this gives a chance for the youth to explore and initiate social changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Space<\/strong> is a social network for young people interested in exploring and building a more equal, sustainable and inclusive world. It is a forum for new ideas, expression, dialogues and learning on issues that concern young adults and their future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Space a Youth initiative at Trivandrum has organized a \u2018Book Tasting\u2019 session\u00a0 at the Press club Trivandrum on 20th July where the work of Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions\u2019 was featured.\u00a0 This event is Open Space\u2019s first in the series of discussions on the latest and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-photo-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}