On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Gail Omvedt <gailomv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Intach, > > This letter is to protest the exclusion of Mahatma Phule's house from > your Pune map of "heritage sites" in the city. > > I received the map and companion guidebook during a Maharashtra > Studies conference held last year in Pune. This is the major group of > scholars from all over the world who work on aspects of Maharashtra. > They include people from India, the U.S. and , Japan and elsewhere > who have done research on Mahatma Phule as well as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar > and other giant intellectual leaders of the state. > > It was only recently that we had a chance to look through the map and > other material. We were shocked to find that Mahatma Phule's house, a > very well-known memorial site in Pune, is somehow not considered fit > to be a major part of Pune's "heritage." What kind of selection > criteria was used is something hard to imagine. A large number of > citizens of Pune and Maharashtra as a whole will feel insulted by this > exclusion, while foreign scholars and others who are aware of the work > of Phule and Ambedkar will find it difficult to understand. > > In fact, we would say it is only understandable in terms of caste bias. > > This protest is directed both against INTACH and your sponsor, the > Forbes Marshall company. > > We are sending a carbon copy to various members of the Maharashtra > studies group as well as other concerned people and are sure that you > will hear from many of them. > > Sincerely yours, > Gail Omvedt > Dr. Bharat Patankar > > Kasegaon > District Sangli > India 415404 > -- Cynthia Stephen Independent Writer and Researcher And may you be blessed with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do things which others tell you cannot be done -- Ranjit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
