[Sarai Newsletter] November 2009- Talk at Sarai

[The Sarai Programme]

*Newsletter- November 2009- Talk at Sarai
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Sarai and Navayana invite you to the fifth in the series of 
Navayana-Sarai lectures on *Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3.30 p.m. *at* 
Seminar Room, CSDS*.*
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*RAVIKUMAR*, author of /Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture & 
Politics/ (Samya) shall speak on "Theorising Resistance"
*ANIL CHAMADIA*, Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi 
Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha; *SANJAY KAK*, filmmaker; and *R. AZHAGARASAN*, 
translator of Ravikumar's work, shall participate in a discussion on the 
book.

Ravikmuar has pursued writing, publishing, translation and rights 
activism over two decades in Tamil Nadu. He has authored seven books and 
edited three little magazines in Tamil---Nirappirigai, Bodhi and Dalit. 
He has rendered from English into Tamil the writings of Edward Said, 
Mahasweta Devi, Isabelle Allende, Gabirel García Márquez, Michel 
Foucault and Augusto Boal, among others. Ravikumar is the co-founder of 
the publishing house Navayana, and a member of the Tamil Nadu 
Legislative Assembly representing Dalit Panthers.
/Venomous Touch /is a collection of his writings translated into 
English. A concern for the question of power in society -- derived from 
his engagement with Marx, Ambedkar, Bakunin, Derrida, Foucault and other 
philosophers and his wide readings in Tamil literature -- permeates his 
writings. Throbbing with righteous anger at centuries of oppression and 
denial against dalits, this collection of essays, as Susie Tharu says in 
her Foreword, acts as 'both poison/venom and remedy'.
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Hope you will make yourself available for the event.


Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
29-Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi- 110 054
Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net
www.sarai.net
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