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Marathi Dalit literature inspired writers in other languages | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Daya Pawar, dalit writer and poet guided Sooni Taraporevala through the historical contexts, locations, and lived realities associated with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s life and the Dalit movement to help her authentically capture the narrative for the feature film on the leader She was so overwhelmed, she became more radical , Ambedkarite than Dalits themselves. Dr Jabbar Patel , director of the film, recalled this last week while presiding over a very well attended release of a volume in Marathi on Day
Brilliant play uses folk theatre form to stress need for free speech, freedom of expression | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The Marathi play ‘Sawaal Jawaab’ at the NCPA experimental theatre recently was a treat, intellectually stimulating and spectacular. Seldom seen so much approving audience response during the performance and later there was much lively interaction between many in the audience and the writers of the play and the actors. Among them was Abhinav Chandrachud , author, whose book the Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India provided an excellent quote used in the play. obscenity
BJP on the back foot as devout Hindus oppose noise in Ganesh festival | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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This young man from Pune has become a celebrity , his campaign will substantially help in rescuing millions in Mahaashtra from constant torture of noise in the forthoming Ganapati festival . The torture was being inflicted by BJP allied forces for the last many years , this development is a major slap in the face of the BJP in its stronghold . Many devout Hindus have complained of the torture. Many people are surprised by the sudden emergence of the Pune brahmin rebel Vidyanand Bapat , in his 30
Government machinery threatens people’s lives and public spaces in Mumbai | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Government and allied authorities in Mumbai are widely being seen as a major threat to people’s lives , their open spaces,they are grabbing public spaces in a city known the world over for shortage of such spaces.. There is also widespread inefficiency, corruption. MMRDA, the body created for planning for Mumbai region has stolen a public park for use of its officers, dumped a lot of construction material in public parks for its extremely ill conceived Pod car project, has committed numerous pro
Film Odyssey reminds one of Marlowe’s famous line `Was this the face that launched a thousand ships’ | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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In much of the analytical writing on the film Odyssey one is surprised to find the absence of any mention of Marlowe’s famous play Doctor Faustus in which Helen of Troy is in a way such a central figure. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships is a line which one cannot forget many years after the university days. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus remains deeply relevant today as the ultimate parable of unchecked human ambition, the ethics of emerging technologies, and the psychologi
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