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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Fwd: Government Brahmana - film



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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Subject: Government Brahmana - film
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Government Brahmana by Aravind Malagatti, now a film!

About the Book: Government Brahmana is the English translation of the Kannada autobiography of Aravind Malagatti. The autobiographical narrative is in the form of a series of episodes from the author's childhood and youth. These episodes function as what G.N. Devy calls 'epiphanic moments' in a caste society. The author reflects on specific instances from his childhood and student days that illustrate the normative cruelty practiced by caste Hindu society on dalits. We encounter all the tropes of (male) dalit life: isolation in school where even drinking water is an ordeal; life in the village where dalits perform the filthiest tasks but are denied access to common wells, lakes, where they cannot step into shops and therefore have their purchases thrown at them, where they have to cut their own hair because no barber would touch it; consuming dead-animal meat and innards; doomed love affairs with 'upper' caste women. A painful, disturbing, thought-provoking memoir, this text is conversely full of vitality, even tenderness. In its structure and purpose – as a series of notes towards a dalit autobiography – Government Brahmana appears to be anticipated by Ambedkar's own autobiographical sketches.

film releasing soon: http://www.filmglitz.com/kannada/movie-stills/government-brahmana/

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