[Reader-list] KHAIRLANJI: book launch on 16 October

[Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्]

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