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Gail Omvedt: The Legacy of an Activist Writer | Gabriele Dietrich

Gabriele Dietrich — 2021-10-08T14:54:36Z

The passing of Gail Omvedt on August 26, 2021 at her home in Kasegaon was received with great emotion by wide sections of women's movements and Dalit movements. This is not surprising, because she was very well known not only as a prolific writer, but as an activist as well. The immediate circulation of pdf.s of her writings on Feminists India was a spontaneous reaction and led to a debate on copyrights and the survival problems of alternative publishing houses, which was long overdue. (…)

- 2021

Book Review: Kobad Gandhy's Prison Memoir | Gabriele Dietrich

Gabriele Dietrich — 2021-08-13T20:17:02Z

reviewed by Gabriele Dietrich
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FRACTURED FREEDOM
A Prison Memoir
Kobad Gandhy
Roli Books
(Address: Roli Books Pvt Ltd, M-75, Greater Kailash II, Market, New Delhi - 110048)
2021
316 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8194969166
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8194969167
Available in Hardcover and in Kindle editions
Available here
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This is indeed a story of passion, commitment, and a search for justice and freedom. It is the narrative of the building up of engagement and empathy, (…)

- 2021

Gabriele Dietrich on D'Mello's India After Naxalbari - Unfinished History

Gabriele Dietrich — 2021-04-10T02:11:27Z

BOOK REVIEW
Bernard D'Mello: India After Naxalbari. Unfinished History. Aakar Books 2018
This meticulously researched book deals with “a thread of history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misinterpret. This account puts it straight into our history books.” Arundhati Roy
Bernard d'Mello is clearly not a mainstream historian.He has made extraordinary efforts to dig up this hidden history and to make it accessible to readers who are not afraid to face this (…)

- 2021 / Book Review

Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir

Gabriele Dietrich — 2015-11-27T05:48:15Z

BOOK REVIEW
Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation of society. It is unfortunate that Ilina and Binayak Sen have been in the national and international limelight because of the trumped-up Binayak Sen case and the subsequent “Free Binayak Sen Campaign” which was, of course, very positive. This (…)

- 2015 / Book Review

Feminist-Socialist Transformation facing Neo-Liberal Capitalism

Gabriele Dietrich — 2014-11-22T19:35:40Z

WOMEN'S WORLD
We have to distinguish between the Socialist Movement which tries to carry out transformation in the mode of production and Feminist Movements with a limited agenda of “equality”, though the latter would in fact also require very drastic transformation. Both are today in a deadlock because of neo-liberal capitalism having dissolved the attempt of even thinking, leave alone building, a socialist economy. Everybody is now caught up in the world market and widening polarisation (…)

- 2014

Why does the Prime Minister Not Lose Sleep over Dr Binayak Sen?

Gabriele Dietrich — 2007-11-28T10:06:19Z

On November 2, 2007 eleven security personnel were killed in a blast and indiscriminate firing by Naxalites near Tonguda village close to the Pamed Police Station in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, not far from the Andhra Pradesh border. Grey-hounds from Andhra were brought in for combing operations. It is known that this area has been subjected to Salwa Judum earlier, a form of civil war, by the BJP Government on the Adivasi villages of Dantewada district. The investigations of numerous (…)

- November 24, 2007