[Reader-list] Fw: [Citizen-Mumbai] Reading of excerpts from Rohinton Mistry's book on Monday

[kabi cubby sherman]

apologies for cross-posting.

kabi

 
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Subject: [Citizen-Mumbai] Reading of excerpts from Rohinton Mistry's book on 
Monday

Dear Friends

You are invited to a reading of excerpts from Rohinton Mistry's

Such A Long Journey

on Monday, October 18, 4 pm, at  Press CLub, Mumbai

Mumbai-born Rohinton Mistry's multi-award winning novel `Such a Long Journey', 
set in  Mumbai of the early 70s, which was being taught as a text to SYBA Eng 
Lit Students was overnight withdrawn on a demand made by the youngest Thackeray 
to emerge in the  Shiv Sena. Aditya Thackeray, grandson of Bal and son of Uddhav 
Thackeray, and a student of St Xavier's College,  gave an ultimatum to the VC to 
withdraw the book because it contained references against the Sena.  The VC 
immediately complied.

For too long have parties like the Shiv Sena decided what we should read. 
Normally, politicians give in. This time, the man occupying the highest academic 
post in the University, the VC himself, went out of his way to oblige this 
particular student.

To protest against such arbitrary and undemocratic infringement of academic 
 independence,  three Mumbai groups are organising a reading of Mistry's book.

Theatre personality Dolly Thakore & novelist Meher Pestonji will read from the 
book.

This will be followed by a discussion on `Censorship, Art & Politics'' , led by 
Well-known academician Prof Pushpa Bhave, Usha Subramaniam, Prof of English, who 
has taught the book,
Kumar Prashant, writer and editor of Sarvodaya Jagat Anand Teltumbde, writer  & 
columnist, EPW  The discussion will be chaired by Rohini Hensman, researcher & 
human rights activist

Pl join us to raise your voice against such fascist moves.


Citizen initiative for Peace, Committee for Release of Dr Binayak Sen and Mumbai 
Initiative of Human Rights Education.

Citizen Initiative for peace-

 A  group of over 80 activists, NGOs and other groups and individuals who have 
come together to initiate programmes, discussions and otherwise work towards 
maintaining peace in Mumbai city. Email-  info at mumbaicitizens.com

Committee for Release of Dr Binayak Sen, Mumbai CRBS came together to campaign 
for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, vice-president PUCL, and  a paediatrician who 
was arrested in 2006 under the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Security Act for 
standing up for tribal rights. After a two-year stint in prison, he is on bail 
now, while his trial continues. We as a group continue to fight for democratic 
rights and raise our voices against human rights violations. Email- 
icareforjustice at gmail.com

Mumbai Initiative for  Human Rights Education The seeds of Mumbai Initiative for 
Human Rights Education (MIHRE) were sown at a National Human Rights Education 
Workshop organised by IHREC in Mumbai in October 2003.The mission of MIHRE is to 
promote human rights culture in the Mumbai metropolitan region through education 
in schools as well as colleges, universities and other higher educational 
institutions. Email- drtc at vsnl.com

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