Dear Friends You are invited to a reading of excerpts from Rohinton Mistry's * Such A Long Journey*
*on Monday, October 18, 4 pm, at Press CLub, Mumbai* Mumbai-born Rohinton Mistry's multi-award winning novel `Such a Long Journey', set in Mumbai of the early 70s, which was being taught as a text to SYBA Eng Lit Students was overnight withdrawn on a demand made by the youngest Thackeray to emerge in the Shiv Sena. Aditya Thackeray, grandson of Bal and son of Uddhav Thackeray, and a student of St Xavier's College, gave an ultimatum to the VC to withdraw the book because it contained references against the Sena. The VC immediately complied. For too long have parties like the Shiv Sena decided what we should read. Normally, politicians give in. This time, the man occupying the highest academic post in the University, the VC himself, went out of his way to oblige this particular student. To protest against such arbitrary and undemocratic infringement of academic independence, three Mumbai groups are organising a reading of Mistry's book. Theatre personality Dolly Thakore & novelist Meher Pestonji will read from the book. This will be followed by a discussion on `Censorship, Art & Politics'' , led by Well-known academician Prof Pushpa Bhave, Usha Subramaniam, Prof of English, who has taught the book, Kumar Prashant, writer and editor of Sarvodaya Jagat Anand Teltumbde, writer & columnist, EPW T he discussion will be chaired by Rohini Hensman, researcher & human rights activist Pl join us to raise your voice against such fascist moves. Citizen initiative for Peace, Committee for Release of Dr Binayak Sen and Mumbai Initiative of Human Rights Education. * Citizen Initiative for peace-* A group of over 80 activists, NGOs and other groups and individuals who have come together to initiate programmes, discussions and otherwise work towards maintaining peace in Mumbai city. Email- [email protected]<[email protected]> * Committee for Release of Dr Binayak Sen, Mumbai* CRBS came together to campaign for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, vice-president PUCL, and a paediatrician who was arrested in 2006 under the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Security Act for standing up for tribal rights. After a two-year stint in prison, he is on bail now, while his trial continues. We as a group continue to fight for democratic rights and raise our voices against human rights violations. Email- [email protected] * Mumbai Initiative for Human Rights Education* The seeds of Mumbai Initiative for Human Rights Education (MIHRE) were sown at a National Human Rights Education Workshop organised by IHREC in Mumbai in October 2003.The mission of MIHRE is to promote human rights culture in the Mumbai metropolitan region through education in schools as well as colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions. Email- [email protected] -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=132334350149754* http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
