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In 2010, Dharker founded the Mumbai
International Literary Festival. This takes place in November at the National Centre for Performing Arts in South Mumbai and simultaneously at Prithvi Theatre in North Mumbai. Dharker continued as the Festival Director of the litfest. Literature Live! the
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On returning to India, he joined the leading architectural firm, Phoroze
Kudianavala and Associates as a senior consultant. Here he pioneered the concept and practice of fire safety in multi-storied buildings, then a much-neglected field in India. He initiated the use of smoke detectors,
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Journal group which was then poised to take off (no relation to the current channel of the same name). He later briefly became Creative Director of the
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Sportman of the Year award. He represented Bombay Gymkhana in tennis.
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placed him on the advisory board of the Film Censor Board where he drafted a liberalised and simplified censorship code which eventually formed the basis for the official film certification code.
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185:(then called the Film Finance Corporation), and eventually became its head. During this time, many film-makers who are now household names, made their first movies with NFDC. Examples are
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Dharker was also responsible for opening the Akashwani Auditorium in South Bombay as an art movie theatre.
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The Possible Dream: The Story of the Mumbai Marathon
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