[Reader-list] Support the Candidature of Mallika Sarabhai Against L.K.Advani in Gandhinagar, Gujarat

[Venugopalan K M]

*Dear friend(s),
I have this message posted by a friend, to a list elsewhere ( to which I'm a
subscriber).
Thought of re-circulating the content.
Hope you will help spreading the word to have some consequences, ultimately.
Regards,
Venu.*


Here is an announcement about Mallika Sarabhai's candidacy as an Independent
in L K Advani's constituency. She is
  looking for financial and any other support.
  If anyone is interested in getting more information, or contributing any
  help, please get in touch with Ms.Leela Mayor. Her e-mail is:
  mayor.leela at gmail.com


Here is some background (from Wikipedia)

Mallika Sarabhai (born April 5, 1954) is a renowned Kuchipudi and
Bharatanatyam dancer from India. Daughter of classical danseuse
Mrinalini Sarabhai and the renonwned space scientist, Vikram Sarabhai,
Mallika is also known for her association with the field of theatre
and cinema.

As well as a dancer, Sarabhai is a social activist. She, along with
her mother, manages the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts located at
Ahmedabad.[3] She made headlines when she complained that the Narendra
Modi government of Gujarat was harassing her due to her public
criticism of their role during the 2002 riots; the government in late
2002 had accused her of human trafficking. The Gujarati government
dropped the case in December 2004.

In 1989 she performed hard-hitting solo theatrical works, Shakti: The
Power of Women. after it She direct & acted in numerous productions
based on current issues and which raised awareness for social change.
Mallika Sarabhai also wrote the script of the play Unsuni based on
Harsh Mander's book Unheard Voices.Arvind Gaur translate it in hindi
and Mallika Sarabhai direct Unsuni for Darpana Academy.Unsuni travels
all over India.Darpana, the arts institution of Ahmedabad, has
launched the people awareness movement through its production Unsuni.

On March 19, Mallika Sarabhai announced to take on BJP’s prime
ministerial candidate L K Advani from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat.
Mallika announced that she would contest the poll as an independent
candidate. She said she had neither personally approached the Congress
nor did it offer to make her its candidate.

She positioned herself as a "people centric" candidate saying that “I
am people’s candidate as people have asked me to contest.” Regarding
her poll agenda, she said it will be people centric. Expressing her
view that politicians of all hues and colours had killed democracy she
said that “Politicians go to the people only during elections and are
not to be seen for five years after that,”.[6] The firebrand danseuse,
who has been taking up the cause of the riot victims, was also the
first to file a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court
against the BJP government's alleged role in fomenting communal
violence across Gujarat.




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