http://navayana.org Publishing for Social Change Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:26:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1073" align="alignleft" width="357" caption=" "][/caption] With a Foreword by John Berger and a jacket endorsement by Joe Sacco, this book has already made news. See this report inWashington Post and this one in Open. Says Joe Sacco, author of Palestine, ‘The artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam have dropped most of the West's and ... http://navayana.org/?p=1035 In 2009, Navayana had sponsored five Dalit and Adivasi candidates for the Edit-Pub diploma course at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, as Avarna fellows. This year, Navayana shall sponsor the enrolment of five Dalit/Adivasi candidates at the National Book Trust’s four-week Training Course in Book Publishing (in English) in New Delhi. The details of ... http://navayana.org/?p=1025 http://navayana.org/?p=1012 [caption id="attachment_1000" align="aligncenter" width="516" caption=" "][/caption] Based on experiences in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Navayana will soon launch a graphic book that will feature the work of Pardhan Gond artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. The artwork and the non-sequential non-realist mode of representation promises to be a landmark in ... http://navayana.org/?p=999 "While paintings of the contemporary Gond art movement are now internationally celebrated, its three-dimensional expressions remain surprisingly neglected. Thus this solo exhibit -- the first to focus on a Gond sculptor -- is long overdue. Sukhnandi's engaging, bold and earthy sculptures will astonish and captivate many Indian art devotees." -- John ... http://navayana.org/?p=973 At this year's Jaipur Literature Festival, as India commemorates 60 years of being a Republic on 26 January 2010, the focus is on Dalit writing. There shall be four sessions devoted to issues related to caste and Dalit writing. Despite the Constitution being piloted by Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a ... http://navayana.org/?p=956 [caption id="attachment_948" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="At the Safai Karamchair Andolan office on 4 January 2010"][/caption] In his Sarai lecture, on 4 Jan 2010, Slavoj Žižek called Gandhi a 'soft fascist' and said he was more in line with Ambedkar's radical approach to the question of caste. In this interview to the Sunday ... http://navayana.org/?p=946 [caption id="attachment_902" align="alignright" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] Slavoj Žižek on “Capitalism and Particular Life-Worlds: In Defense of Universalism” 7 Jan 2010. 11 a.m. Room 1, New Academic Building, EFLU Campus Interlocutor: Madhava Prasad Come early to ensure seats. Žižek books and other latest Navayana titles will be available for sale at the venue. To order Žižek's latest book First as Tragedy, Then ... http://navayana.org/?p=910 Thus Spoke Ambedkar, Volume 1 A Stake in the Nation Edited and Selected by Bhagwan Das With annotations Navayanan Ambedkar Library 1 7.5" x 7.5" Hardback with dust jacket, 228 pages ISBN 9788189059187 Rs 395 The first ever annotated edition of Dr B.R. Ambedkar's speehces. The twenty speeches in the first of volume of Thus Spoke Ambedkar showcase the wide ... http://navayana.org/?p=922 5 Jan 2010. 7 p.m. Slavoj Žižek on "Tragedy and Farce" Interlocutor: Nivedita Menon Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi This evening see how Slavoj Žižek, in a talk ostensibly on 11 Sept 2001 and the crisis in capitalism (the Tragedy and the Farce), manages to speak on Ambedkar, caste, Gandhi, shit, manual ... http://navayana.org/?p=889