Although the bomb blasts in the local train in July disrupted SPARROW activities somewhat, we picked ourselves up quickly and proceeded to work on the events we had planned. The first event was the SPARROW film festival held in collaboration with Mahila Vyaspeeth (Y.B. Chavan Prathisthan) Vijaya Chauhan, the Secreatry of Mahila Vyaspeeth, was the one who first suggested such a festival of SPARROW films. The festival called Women's Words, Women's Lives was held on 3rd and 4th November 2006. Urvashi Butalia, Director, Zubaan, inaugurated the festival and Kalpana Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindu, Mumbai concluded the festival. The festival attracted an appreciative audience. The project support for the festival came from The Global Fund for Women. We give some photographs below:

The second event, a cultural festival, held in collaboration with the National Film Archive of India along with venue collaborators, Fun Cinemas, was a meticulously planned one with films from the North East and Orissa and paintings and arts and crafts from Mizoram brought by artists Zaithanpuii Vuvangtu and Klanghro Khuma. It was held from 26th January to 30th January 2007 with project support from HIVOS. The festival was called One River, Many Streams and was an attempt to present the multicultural aspect of our nation. Directors and actors from the region were invited and eight award winning films from the region were screened. On the inaugural day there was a Manipuri dance performance and on the concluding day there was a music recital by a singer from Assam. Actor Shabana Azmi inaugurated the festival and Jarjum Ete, Chairperson, Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women, concluded the festival. Unfortunately, Mumbai did not show much enthusiasm for the festival. We give a few photographs below:

The third event, a much-awaited one, was the book release function of Dr. Neera Desai's book, Feminism as Experience: Thoughts and Narratives. It was held in S.N.D.T University's mini-auditorium on 14th March, 2007. The venue collaborators as well us supporters of the event were, of course, the Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T., Juhu Campus. Dr.Vina Mazumdar came all the way from Delhi to release the book to an extremely appreciative and warm audience who were there to express their solidarity for the subject and the author. We give a few photographs below: