[Reader-list] Support for SPARROW

[Zainab Bawa]

Dear all,

I am putting out some of my books for sale. I am selling these books to
raise a total of Rs. 10,000 as my commitment for support to SPARROW.


Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women (SPARROW) is an
organization based in Mumbai. It is an archival repository that has been
collecting oral history and visual material connected with women’s lives and
experiences in India and South Asia for the past twenty years. In the words
of C S Lakshmi, one of the trustees of SPARROW, “We record histories of
individual women from various walks of life such as educationists, artists,
writers, feminists, women from left and other progressive movements, freedom
fighters, traditional medicine practitioners and so on. Sometimes, we even
interview women who may not be “achievers” but who have taken decisions that
have affected the lives of members in their family. In sum, what we are
recording is what we call the politics of everyday life.”


I believe that it is very important to support archives such as SPARROW in
order to access histories and narratives of everyday politics. These stories
and accounts can have a powerful impact on people’s perspectives and
worldviews, thus holding a great possibility of bringing about change in our
society. SPARROW is currently in need of funds in order to support their
digitization work and to continue to sustain. I am making a very small
attempt in the direction of supporting SPARROW, which actually involves
nourishing persons like myself who have learnt and grown - emotionally,
intellectually and politically - from the insights of other people’s lives.
Please support me in this endeavour.


1) Joe Studwell's "Asian Godfathers - Money and Power in Hong Kong and South
East Asia" - Rs. 700

2). Pinki Virani's "Once was a Bombay" - Rs. 200

3). Vikram Kapadia's "Black with Equal" - Rs. 65
4). Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" - Volume 1 - Rs. 250
5). Bimal Jalan's "India's politics: a view from the back bench" - Rs. 250
6). Louise Brown's "Sex Slaves - the trafficking of women in Asia" - Rs. 300

7). Howard Becker's "Tricks of the Trade - How to think about your research
while you're doing it." - Rs. 250

 8). John Pickering and Martin Skinner's "From Sentience to Symbols -
Readings on Consciousness" - Rs. 400

9). Sampurna Chattarji's "Sight May Strike You Blind" - Rs. 50

10). R. K. Narayan's "The Financial Expert" - Rs. 95

11). Paul Theroux's "Kowloon Tong" - Rs. 80

12). Charles Landry’s “The Creative City” - Rs. 400


Regards,


Zainab


-- 
Zainab Bawa
Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher

http://writerruns.wordpress.com/
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