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The War Within : The Maoists, The Tribals and The State - 7- நவம்பர் 09



CONCERN (a student body in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), is hosting a convention in IISc, Bangalore on 7th November titled "The War Within: The Maoists, The Tribals and The State". We would like to invite you to the same. We plan to screen documentaries, presentations, petitions, hold panel talks and host a photo exhibition. One of the documentaries is an exclusive 13 min long footage of our visit to VCA, Dantewada and the demolition of the ashram (as much as was possible before our cameras were seized). Please spread the word. Poster is attached.

Introduction : As the government plans to unleash its biggest ever operation against the Maoists in India's heartland, this convention aims to debate the why's and whether's behind the move and raise fundamental questions about treating socio-economic and political issues by military means.


Schedule :-

Note: There would be a photoexhibiton of photographs by Javed Iqbal at the venue.

3:00 PM Documentary Screening and a Presentation on Salwa Judum.

4:15 - 4:30 PM Tea/Coffe Break

4:30 PM Panel Talk and Discussion

Ground realities in Chhattisgarh.*
Himanshu Kumar

Double Tragedy of Tribals in India
Ramachandra Guha

Maoist movement in India : The story so far
Sudeep Chakravarti

(* Tentative Title)

About the speakers:-

Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian Activist from Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. He set up Vanwasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) in 1992, a Gandhian organisation at Kanwalnar near Dantewada, commited to work for the survival, development and dignity of the tribal people of the Bastar region. VCA works on several modes of empowerment, with emphasis on human and legal rights and justice, community health services, elementary education, access to and implementation of NREGA and other government schemes and natural resource management activities. The VCA documented several instances of human rights violations in the fight against Maoists and Salwa Judum and was also involved in highlighting the complicity of the state administration in several cases of extra-judicial killings – including the Singaram massacre on January 8, 2009.


Ramachandra Guha is a well known Historian , Sociologist and Columnist. His research interests includes environmental, social, history of independent India and cricket history. He is the author of well known books such as The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (University of California, Berkeley press; Oxford University Press (OUP), This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India (OUP) (with Madhav Gadgil, 1992), Ecology and Equity (with Madhav Gadgil, 1995) (Penguin), Savaging the Civilized— Verrier Elwin, his tribals and India (University of Chicago Press; OUP)(1999), Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia (with David Arnold). His books on India after Gandhi and A Corner of Foreign Field have been extremely popular. He holds a Ph.D in sociology from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics.

Sudeep Chakravati is an Author, Journalist, Professional futurist and Syndicated columnist. He is the author of the extremely popular book on present day Maoist movement called “Red Sun: Travels in the Naxalite country” (Penguin India)(2008). He previously worked with Asian Wall Street Journal, Sunday Magazine and India Today. He held variety of positions with India Today Group as Business Editor, Senior Editor and Executive Editor. He also served as a consultant editor for Hindustan Times and is a visiting faculty at Manipal Institute of Communications , where he is the member of Board of Studies. He holds a Bachelors in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

9th November
Talk by Mr. Himanshu Kumar at IIM Bangalore and Department of Political Science, Bangalore University.

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தற்செயலாகவோ அல்லது இதில் பங்குகொள்ளவோ, சென்னை மற்றும் பிற நகரத் தமிழ்ப் பதிவர்கள், பத்திரிக்கையாள நண்பர்களுள் சிலர், பெங்களூரு செல்வார்களெனில் கீழ்கண்ட தகவல்கள் உபயோகமாகயிருக்கலாம்.

How to reach IISc?

http://www.iisc.ernet.in/content_geninfohowtoreach.html

மேலுள்ள சுட்டியில், இரயில், பேருந்து, வானூர்தி, சொந்த வாகனம் என அனைத்துக்கும் வழிகாட்டுதல் இருக்கிறது.

Route Map:

http://www.iisc.ernet.in/images/campus_route.jpg

கீழுள்ள சுட்டியில் இந்திய அறிவியல் கழக வளாகத்தின் வரைபடம் உள்ளது.
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