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

[Aarti Sethi]

Can you tell us the date, time and venue Shivam?

thanks
A

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्
<mail at shivamvij.com>wrote:

> 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
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