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 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. www.navayana.org Available in bookstores from 10 October 2008. Buy online at www.scholarswithoutborders.in
