Greetings from Wellington, NZ. Ravinder Kaur is a good friend of mine and she is a historian at Kobenhavn University of Sikh origin. She had this piece in The Hindu not too long ago. Louis and others may be interested. I think it is a sober piece.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2582952.ece Incidentally in case any one is interested, I am here (and the only Indian here) for a workshop on Japan and China and in a couple of day on Auckland on compressed development (contesting the idea by saying compressed capitalism) in late industrializing countries. Working papers are available. Cheers, Anthony On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Like most people, before 2007 I only knew Sikhs by their appearance—and > particularly the physically imposing men with their turbans and beards. > But in May of that year, I saw a film titled “Amu”, directed by Shonali > Bose, that was a dramatization of what amounted to genocide in India in > 1984. > > In the press notes for the film, Shonali wrote: > > Such a history cannot be buried and forgotten. Young people cannot > make > their future or understand their present without knowing the past. > Today, twenty-two years after an elected government massacred its own > people in full view of the world, no one has been punished. And as a > result, the cycle of violence has continued against other communities. > What kind of political system is this in which those in power can get > away with such crimes again and again? This is the question Amu leaves > the young protagonists with as they walk down a railway track into the > future. This is why I made Amu. So that people all over the world will > ask the question. > > Now, four years later, I return to the Sikh struggle once again through > the prism of film. > > On October 14th I attended the opening night of the Sikh Film Festival > in New York and saw two documentaries that went to the heart of the > problems facing this 25 million strong religious group, three-quarters > of whom live in Punjab, India. Harpreet Kaur’s “A Little Revolution: A > Story of Suicides and Dreams” featured the director in her campaign to > win justice for the surviving family members of Punjabi peasants who > have killed themselves out of desperation. Like so many peasants in > India, Sikh and non-Sikh, the industrial transformation of Indian > farming has condemned many to crushing debts. > > full: > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/the-sikh-struggle-through-the-prism-of-film/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshavens 24B, 3.78 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 *A NEW INDIA?* http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857286642.pdf *CONFERENCE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS IN INDIA AND CHINA* http://uk.cbs.dk/research/konferencer/psric *INTERVIEW China and India: Competition and Collaboration *(go to Research Themes/Economy) ad.int <http://cast.cbs.dk/#ad.int> 07-Jun-2011 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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