---------- Forwarded message ---------- Navayana invites you to the launch of Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop Anand Teltumbde
with a panel discussion featuring Rajendra Yadav Sukhadeo Thorat Arundhati Roy Harsh Mander Nivedita Menon & Anand Teltumbde on 16 October 2008, 6.30 pm at the Indian Social Institute 10, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi For further details call 9971433117 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.navayana.org Join Navayana Book Club and avail free books and special discounts! http://www.navayana.org/display.php?id=5 Mailer: 'Teltumbde exposes the gangrenous heart of Indian society.' — Arundhati Roy Khairlanji A Strange and Bitter Crop By Anand Teltumbde Demy Octavo, 215 pages, Rs 190 ISBN: 978-81-89059-15-6 "Anand Teltumbde's analysis of the public, ritualistic massacre of a dalit family in 21st century India exposes the gangrenous heart of our society. It contextualizes the massacre and describes the manner in which the social, political and state machinery, the police, the mass media and the judiciary all collude to first create the climate for such bestiality, and then cover it up. This is not a book about the last days of relic feudalism, but a book about what modernity means in India. It discusses one of the most important issues in contemporary India." — Arundhati Roy On 29 September 2006, in Khairlanji, Maharashtra, Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange were stripped, paraded naked, raped repeatedly and killed. Surekha's sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched. The entire village was involved. The four bodies were dumped into a canal. The Bhotmanges were dalit. The Bhotmanges have been forgotten. After all, two dalits are murdered every day in India. Anand Teltumbde reconstructs one of post-independence India's worst caste atrocities and tells us how and why Khairlanjis are always around us. Holocaste 'The right of life and death was one of sovereignty's basic attributes,' said Foucault. 'The right of life and death is always exercised in an unbalanced way: the balance is always tipped in favour of death.' In post-independence India, the authority of caste found a new ally—the state and its police. The state admits to the murder of two dalits every day, a crime against a dalit every eighteen minutes. Atrocities pile up, forming a landscape of tears, blood and ashes. It could be said this is not genocide. It could be argued this is not a holocaust. What is it then, this slow, everyday ritual of murder? Unreported, easily forgotten. What should we call a holocaust in instalments— a 'Holocaste'? This series from Navayana chronicles dalit massacres that go almost unnoticed in the world's largest democracy. Each title in the Holocaste series will locate each specific massacre in its socio-historical context. www.navayana.org Available in bookstores from 10 October 2008. Buy online at www.scholarswithoutborders.in ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to [email protected] TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
