M.P. Joseph originally from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), began his career winning the prestigious Reenu Sandhu Gold Medal at the Lal Bahadur Sashtri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie. Joseph was earlier in the 1977 batch of the Indian Police Service (IPS). He had also worked as a Probationary Officer in the State Bank of India for over a year and half. M. P. Joseph holds a Master's degree in Human Resources Development from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK and a Master's degree in Solid State Physics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology. Joseph is a powerful public speaker and well known in lecture circuits. He also hosts a weekly English TV Talk Show called Youth Xpress on Asianet News.
Joseph is currently Advisor and Consultant to Government of Kerala in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary to Government and Executive Vice-Chairman of Bhavanam Foundation Kerala, a non-profit public sector Company fully owned by the Government of Kerala, set up to build own homes for labourers and workers and for Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala. Joseph is the co-author of a Study of Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala with the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram. He contributed to the draft Kerala Migrant Labour Social Security Bill, is Chairperson of the 12th Five Year Plan Expert Committee on Employment and Skills, of the Kerala State Planning Board, Conceptualized and drafted Bhavanam, a Housing Scheme for Plantation Labour in the State etc.
Early Life and career
Joseph started his career in the IAS as Sub Collector Trichur and later moving on as District Collector, Ernakulam, where he also concurrently held charge for as Mayor of the Corporation of Cochin in which capacity he played host as Cochin's First Citizen amongst others, to His Holiness Pope John Paul II during the only ever Papal visit to the State in 1985. Later he was Labour Commissioner, Kerala for the longest ever period for any Labour Commissioner in the state, a record of nearly 6 years. Joseph has also worked as general manager, District Industries Centre, Kollam, managing director Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants, Kerala, Cashew Special Officer, Kerala etc. During the first Gulf War, Joseph headed a team of the Ministry of External Affairs that worked with the Indians fleeing from Kuwait through the Iraq Jordan border, in the desert camps between Iraq and Jordan ensuring the safe return of over 100,000 Indians fleeing the Iraqi invasion.
Joseph joined the ILO in 1992 and started up the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in India. He highlighted child labour in public consciousness and moulded opinion and attitudes against it. His work and its impact has been highlighted not only in India but internationally and in discussions in the British House of Commons.
Awards
* The Saha Meitrei Sena Medal of the Royal Government of Cambodia awarded by the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the work of ILO IPEC on child labour in Cambodia.
* The Reenu Sandhu Gold Medal of the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service IAS).
* Citation from the Government of Kerala for the work of the rehabilitation and return to India of over 100,000 Indian refugees from Kuwait through the Ruweished desert on the Iraq Jordan border during the first Gulf War.
* Award for the best performing District Collector on family welfare activities, awarded by the Government of Kerala.
Anchoring
Joseph has been an occasional host on TV channels and have created and anchored reality shows, travelogues, sports shows, debates and discussions on TV, including programmes such as Sporting '89, Just A Minute, the Coast (a weekly travelogue on Doordarsan on the rich and unique culture and the unity within diversity of the west coast of India, where Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Jews have coexisted over many centuries) etc.
Currently Joseph is hosting a Weekly English Programme on the prestigious Malayalam News Channel, Asianet News titled Youth Xpress: What the Young are thinking in Kerala and Outside'. .
Publications
* Impact of Information Technology on Labour and Labour Relations in India, Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Manchester, 1992.
* UN system in India: Position Paper on Child Labour and Background Document for UN system in India: ILO New Delhi, August 1998; Economics of Child Labour in Selected Industries of India, Centre for Research and Training (CORT), Baroda, 1998.
* Little Hands, an article on child labour in India, published in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 1 November 2002.
* IPEC in India: Looking Back 1992-1995, an ILO Publication, New Delhi, 1996
* Developing an Early Warning System to Identify Children Vulnerable to Dropout: A Concept Paper, unpublished, 4 February 2003.
* Food Insecurity and Child Labour: The Markapur Experience, technical paper published in Coming to Grips with Rural Child Work - A Food Security Approach (Eds: Nira Ramachandran and Lionel Massun), United Nations World Food Programme and Institute for Human Development, April 2002.
* From Ideas to Action: Food Assisted Approaches for Rehabilitating Child Labour - The Markapur Experience, paper presented at the Consultative Workshop on Food Insecurity and Child Labour in Rural India, organised by the World Food Programme (WFP), March 2001.
* Thoughts on Child Labour, article on child labour published in the German News, Berlin.
* Child Labour and IPEC, published in Trade Unions, Child Labour and IPEC, National Labour Institute NLI, September 1995.
* Memories of a Papal Visit, article published in the Hindu, Business Line, 29 April 2005, a personalised account of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Kerala, published on the death of the Pontiff in 2005
Joseph is currently Advisor and Consultant to Government of Kerala in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary to Government and Executive Vice-Chairman of Bhavanam Foundation Kerala, a non-profit public sector Company fully owned by the Government of Kerala, set up to build own homes for labourers and workers and for Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala. Joseph is the co-author of a Study of Domestic Migrant Labour in Kerala with the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram. He contributed to the draft Kerala Migrant Labour Social Security Bill, is Chairperson of the 12th Five Year Plan Expert Committee on Employment and Skills, of the Kerala State Planning Board, Conceptualized and drafted Bhavanam, a Housing Scheme for Plantation Labour in the State etc.
Early Life and career
Joseph started his career in the IAS as Sub Collector Trichur and later moving on as District Collector, Ernakulam, where he also concurrently held charge for as Mayor of the Corporation of Cochin in which capacity he played host as Cochin's First Citizen amongst others, to His Holiness Pope John Paul II during the only ever Papal visit to the State in 1985. Later he was Labour Commissioner, Kerala for the longest ever period for any Labour Commissioner in the state, a record of nearly 6 years. Joseph has also worked as general manager, District Industries Centre, Kollam, managing director Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants, Kerala, Cashew Special Officer, Kerala etc. During the first Gulf War, Joseph headed a team of the Ministry of External Affairs that worked with the Indians fleeing from Kuwait through the Iraq Jordan border, in the desert camps between Iraq and Jordan ensuring the safe return of over 100,000 Indians fleeing the Iraqi invasion.
Joseph joined the ILO in 1992 and started up the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in India. He highlighted child labour in public consciousness and moulded opinion and attitudes against it. His work and its impact has been highlighted not only in India but internationally and in discussions in the British House of Commons.
Awards
* The Saha Meitrei Sena Medal of the Royal Government of Cambodia awarded by the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the work of ILO IPEC on child labour in Cambodia.
* The Reenu Sandhu Gold Medal of the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service IAS).
* Citation from the Government of Kerala for the work of the rehabilitation and return to India of over 100,000 Indian refugees from Kuwait through the Ruweished desert on the Iraq Jordan border during the first Gulf War.
* Award for the best performing District Collector on family welfare activities, awarded by the Government of Kerala.
Anchoring
Joseph has been an occasional host on TV channels and have created and anchored reality shows, travelogues, sports shows, debates and discussions on TV, including programmes such as Sporting '89, Just A Minute, the Coast (a weekly travelogue on Doordarsan on the rich and unique culture and the unity within diversity of the west coast of India, where Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Jews have coexisted over many centuries) etc.
Currently Joseph is hosting a Weekly English Programme on the prestigious Malayalam News Channel, Asianet News titled Youth Xpress: What the Young are thinking in Kerala and Outside'. .
Publications
* Impact of Information Technology on Labour and Labour Relations in India, Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Manchester, 1992.
* UN system in India: Position Paper on Child Labour and Background Document for UN system in India: ILO New Delhi, August 1998; Economics of Child Labour in Selected Industries of India, Centre for Research and Training (CORT), Baroda, 1998.
* Little Hands, an article on child labour in India, published in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 1 November 2002.
* IPEC in India: Looking Back 1992-1995, an ILO Publication, New Delhi, 1996
* Developing an Early Warning System to Identify Children Vulnerable to Dropout: A Concept Paper, unpublished, 4 February 2003.
* Food Insecurity and Child Labour: The Markapur Experience, technical paper published in Coming to Grips with Rural Child Work - A Food Security Approach (Eds: Nira Ramachandran and Lionel Massun), United Nations World Food Programme and Institute for Human Development, April 2002.
* From Ideas to Action: Food Assisted Approaches for Rehabilitating Child Labour - The Markapur Experience, paper presented at the Consultative Workshop on Food Insecurity and Child Labour in Rural India, organised by the World Food Programme (WFP), March 2001.
* Thoughts on Child Labour, article on child labour published in the German News, Berlin.
* Child Labour and IPEC, published in Trade Unions, Child Labour and IPEC, National Labour Institute NLI, September 1995.
* Memories of a Papal Visit, article published in the Hindu, Business Line, 29 April 2005, a personalised account of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Kerala, published on the death of the Pontiff in 2005
Chandrakant Kumar Anil (known as C K Anil) is a senior civil servant in the Indian state of Bihar (1990-batch Bihar cadre).
Early life
Anil has completed schooling from Sainik School, Tilaiya. Anil has completed Post Graduate in management.
Personal life
Anil is married to Ms Shobha Ahotkar. C K Anil and Shobha Ohatker, IPS, first met at the Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy in Mussorie during their foundation course.
Career
Anil posted in several Government service e.g. District Magistrate of Siwan (10 February 2005 to 23 May 2005), Advisor Bihar Planning Board, Secretary of agriculture department etc. But currently Mr. Anil is waiting for posting.
Anil is in media after Shahabuddin's case in Bihar, India. Recently a warrant was issued for him.
Early life
Anil has completed schooling from Sainik School, Tilaiya. Anil has completed Post Graduate in management.
Personal life
Anil is married to Ms Shobha Ahotkar. C K Anil and Shobha Ohatker, IPS, first met at the Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy in Mussorie during their foundation course.
Career
Anil posted in several Government service e.g. District Magistrate of Siwan (10 February 2005 to 23 May 2005), Advisor Bihar Planning Board, Secretary of agriculture department etc. But currently Mr. Anil is waiting for posting.
Anil is in media after Shahabuddin's case in Bihar, India. Recently a warrant was issued for him.
Sai Madhusudhan (born Sultan Bathery, Wayanad) is the deputy organiser for Education for the state of Tamil Nadu for Human Rights Organisation. He was also honored by the AWBI, Ministry of Environment and Forest as Honorary Animal welfare officer. Madhusudhan was educated in the stream of Anna university in Computer Science and Engineering. He has followers in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He has been represented to government bodies.
Early life
Madhusudhan was educated in a CBSE school named Morning star near Ooty. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna university stream in the year 2006. He started his career as a Software engineer, then he served as Lecturer/Corporate Social Responsibility heads for various colleges and companies. He was the founder and Director of Software and Web Development company named SM Technologies.
PREDICT
The NGO run for the cause of education in Tamil Nadu is being headed by Mr Madhusudhan. It aims at providing free and effective education for the socially challenged. It also aims at providing free Civil service exam training for the economically challenged people. Predict has been awarded the Best Service Society Award.
Role in Social Service
He was appointed the advisor for various social service organisation . Madhusudhan was honoured by the Chief minister for his valuable contributions in the field of Literature. He was also appointed as vice chairman for the education reforms council. He runs a software company named SM Technologies, which concentrates on web development and allied IT services.
He has been addressing the grievances in the TV show telecasted live by a satellite television TV named RAJ TV.
In the Media
His articles and blow ups have appeared in the newspapers and magazines like Nakkeran, Junior Vikatan and Devi. His famous TV shows include Enna Padiakalam Suyathozhil and Sattam, Law speaks in Raj TV news and NDTV. Show Kalvikalam is also on the way
Early life
Madhusudhan was educated in a CBSE school named Morning star near Ooty. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna university stream in the year 2006. He started his career as a Software engineer, then he served as Lecturer/Corporate Social Responsibility heads for various colleges and companies. He was the founder and Director of Software and Web Development company named SM Technologies.
PREDICT
The NGO run for the cause of education in Tamil Nadu is being headed by Mr Madhusudhan. It aims at providing free and effective education for the socially challenged. It also aims at providing free Civil service exam training for the economically challenged people. Predict has been awarded the Best Service Society Award.
Role in Social Service
He was appointed the advisor for various social service organisation . Madhusudhan was honoured by the Chief minister for his valuable contributions in the field of Literature. He was also appointed as vice chairman for the education reforms council. He runs a software company named SM Technologies, which concentrates on web development and allied IT services.
He has been addressing the grievances in the TV show telecasted live by a satellite television TV named RAJ TV.
In the Media
His articles and blow ups have appeared in the newspapers and magazines like Nakkeran, Junior Vikatan and Devi. His famous TV shows include Enna Padiakalam Suyathozhil and Sattam, Law speaks in Raj TV news and NDTV. Show Kalvikalam is also on the way
The Man from Ruin is a 2016 American apocalyptic science fiction art film written, directed and produced by Joel Shelton, starring Joseph Higgins as The Man, and Devanshu Agrawal as The Voice. It follows a man (Joseph Higgins), seemingly alone in the world, as he attempts to survive the impending winter in a post-apocalyptic society. His only companionship are the philosophical voice recordings of a former human survivor (Devanshu Agrawal). The film was shot in black-and-white and utilizes a long take filming approach. The Man from Ruin is an independent film which fits into the slow cinema genre due to the usage of long takes, the rejection of a traditional narrative, and its minimalist world building.
Plot
In a post-apocalyptic world, we follow a man that gathers items needed to survive an impending winter. He leaves inside the basement of abandoned house and occasionally journeys to the outside in search of the relics of humanity. The Man keeps himself entertained by making personal video logs on an 8mm film camera about the world that surrounds him. His only contact from another human are the philosophical ramblings of a former human survivor on a digital voice device. The Voice gives The Man insight as to how humanity fell into ruin, after a series of unexpected UFO crash landings occurred on the planet Earth, long ago. The Man spends each day searching for physical human contact and crucial items needed for his continued survival. His only hope is finding another person to communicate with about everyday life.
Cast
* Joseph Higgins as The Man
* Devanshu Agrawal as The Voice
Production
The Man from Ruin started out as a short film that eventually developed into a feature length film. Writing for the film involved Joel Shelton constructing the scenes that would be shot for an entire day. So, this made principal photography often unpredictable for the crew and the main protagonist. The film was shot on a low budget with a skeleton film crew. The Man from Ruin will also be sent to several film festivals around the world and will be available digitally at a later date. Editing was conduced in Final Cut Pro X by the director and an two assistant editors that supervised the process.
Plot
In a post-apocalyptic world, we follow a man that gathers items needed to survive an impending winter. He leaves inside the basement of abandoned house and occasionally journeys to the outside in search of the relics of humanity. The Man keeps himself entertained by making personal video logs on an 8mm film camera about the world that surrounds him. His only contact from another human are the philosophical ramblings of a former human survivor on a digital voice device. The Voice gives The Man insight as to how humanity fell into ruin, after a series of unexpected UFO crash landings occurred on the planet Earth, long ago. The Man spends each day searching for physical human contact and crucial items needed for his continued survival. His only hope is finding another person to communicate with about everyday life.
Cast
* Joseph Higgins as The Man
* Devanshu Agrawal as The Voice
Production
The Man from Ruin started out as a short film that eventually developed into a feature length film. Writing for the film involved Joel Shelton constructing the scenes that would be shot for an entire day. So, this made principal photography often unpredictable for the crew and the main protagonist. The film was shot on a low budget with a skeleton film crew. The Man from Ruin will also be sent to several film festivals around the world and will be available digitally at a later date. Editing was conduced in Final Cut Pro X by the director and an two assistant editors that supervised the process.