From dak at sarai.net Mon Oct 26 13:43:14 2009 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:43:14 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] November 2009- Talk at Sarai Message-ID: <4AE55A1A.7060605@sarai.net> *Newsletter- November 2009- Talk at Sarai * Sarai and Navayana invite you to the fifth in the series of Navayana-Sarai lectures on *Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3.30 p.m. *at* Seminar Room, CSDS*.* * *RAVIKUMAR*, author of /Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture & Politics/ (Samya) shall speak on "Theorising Resistance" *ANIL CHAMADIA*, Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha; *SANJAY KAK*, filmmaker; and *R. AZHAGARASAN*, translator of Ravikumar's work, shall participate in a discussion on the book. Ravikmuar has pursued writing, publishing, translation and rights activism over two decades in Tamil Nadu. He has authored seven books and edited three little magazines in Tamil---Nirappirigai, Bodhi and Dalit. He has rendered from English into Tamil the writings of Edward Said, Mahasweta Devi, Isabelle Allende, Gabirel García Márquez, Michel Foucault and Augusto Boal, among others. Ravikumar is the co-founder of the publishing house Navayana, and a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing Dalit Panthers. /Venomous Touch /is a collection of his writings translated into English. A concern for the question of power in society -- derived from his engagement with Marx, Ambedkar, Bakunin, Derrida, Foucault and other philosophers and his wide readings in Tamil literature -- permeates his writings. Throbbing with righteous anger at centuries of oppression and denial against dalits, this collection of essays, as Susie Tharu says in her Foreword, acts as 'both poison/venom and remedy'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you will make yourself available for the event. Mitoo Das Programme Coordinator Sarai, CSDS 29-Rajpur Road Civil Lines Delhi- 110 054 Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net www.sarai.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: