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Join Leftword Books and NewsClick for a discussion on the recent publications, Labouring Lives: Industry and Informality in New India and Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India.

‘Wonderfully written . . . bridges the gap between what we know and what we should know but usually do not know.’ – Amit Bhaduri, distinguished economist on Labouring Lives

‘An extraordinary examination of the politicking, grieving, protesting body.’ – Annie Zaidi on Body on the Barricades

The discussion by authors Archana Aggarwal (Associate Professor, Department of Economics at Hindu College, University of Delhi) and Brahma Prakash (Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) will be moderated by Devi Vijay (Professor, Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta).

Date: 13/05/2023
Time: 7:30 pm IST/ 10 am EDT
To be live-streamed on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIqklS1mi4

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The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, is among the most remarkable theatre institutions in the world. The recent Israeli raid on the camp — the worst in over twenty years — again demonstrated TFT’s incredible resilience. Three members of TFT join us in this online solidarity meeting organised by Jana Natya Manch and LeftWord Books. Join, listen, be inspired.

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Tricontinental Institute for Social Research invites you to a panel discussion on its dossier

The Art of the Revolution will be Internationalist

Speakers:

Vasudha Thozhur, Visual Artist, Art Educator
Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Visual Artist, Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar University

Followed by a screening of Gandhi Ashram to Vatva: A Journey, a photo essay by Vasudha Thozhur

‘The art of the Revolution will be internationalist, at the same time as it will be tightly bound to the national roots. We shall encourage the legitimate and combative cultural expressions of Latin America, Asia and Africa, which imperialism tries to destroy. Our cultural institutions shall be vehicles of the true artists of these continents, of the neglected, of the persecuted, of those who do not allow themselves to be domesticated by cultural colonialism and who fight together with their people in the struggle against imperialism.’

– A mission statement from the 1971 Congress on Education and Culture in Cuba. (from the dossier)

11 August, Friday, at 5 PM
Studio Safdar
May Day Bookstore
Shadipur
Delhi

Born in 1956 in Mysore, Vasudha Thozhur studied at the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, and at the School of Art and Design at Croydon, UK. Her practice is interdisciplinary but primarily rooted in painting. She lived and worked in Chennai between 1981 and 1997, and in Baroda between 1997 and 2013. Besides exhibitions and residencies, she is involved with institutional work related to teaching and education in general. Two grants from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore supported a research project, ‘The Himmat Workshops’, which looked at ways of rooting art practice in ground and other realities, with particular reference to conflict zones. It involved collaborating with Himmat, an activist organization based in Vatva, Ahmedabad, between 2002 and 2007. A compilation of the outcome, entitled Beyond Pain: An Afterlife, was exhibited in Mumbai in 2013 and New Delhi in 2015.

Ashutosh Bhardwaj responds to the contemporary, cosmopolitan nature of urban India in his paintings and sculptures. Based in India, he deploys mass media imagery as metaphors to highlight how news and commercial media sources have been transformed into mouthpieces. He completed his bachelor's and master's from Maharaja Sayajirao University, where he also taught as an assistant professor for four years, before joining Shiv Nadar University as an associate professor. He has exhibited in various galleries, like Vadehra Art Gallery, Guild Art Gallery(Mumbai), San Jose Museum(U.S.), and various museums in South Korea, to name a few.

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वाम प्रकाशन के इस आयोजन में आप सब सादर आमंत्रित हैं

कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन: प्रेमचंद की साम्प्रदायिकता विरोधी कहानियां
डॉ. प्रेम तिवारी से संजय कुंदन की बातचीत

शनिवार, 12 अगस्त, शाम 7.30 बजे, ऑनलाइन

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कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन में प्रेमचंद की वे कहानियां संकलित हैं, जो हिंदू और मुस्लिम कट्टरपंथ पर कड़ा प्रहार करती हैं। इनमें प्रेमचंद बताते हैं कि सांप्रदायिकता किस तरह समाज को खोखला बना देती है।

डॉ. प्रेम तिवारी हिंदी के वरिष्ठ आलोचक हैं। कथा साहित्य में उनकी गहरी रुचि है। वे दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के दयाल सिंह कॉलेज में एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर और जनवादी लेखक संघ, दिल्ली के सचिव हैं।

संजय कुंदन कवि-कथाकार और नाटककार हैं। वह वाम प्रकाशन में संपादक के रूप में कार्यरत हैं।

लेफ़्टवर्ड बुक्स और वाम प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रस्तुत किताबों व सामयिक विषयों पर चर्चा के मासिक ऑनलाइन कार्यक्रम से जुड़ें

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Join Leftword Books and NewsClick for a discussion on Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology.

‘Prabir Purkayastha’s writing bridges science, technology and societal issues by underlining concerns regarding sharing knowledge, not patenting it, and drawing people to own this knowledge.’ — Vineeta Bal

‘Uncommonly well written, this important book by Prabir Purkayastha covers much ground — a lot of it new — in the social role of science and technology in India.’ — Ram Ramaswamy

Join us in the conversation with Prabir Purkayastha, Satyajit Rath, Frederick Magdoff, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, moderated by Vinutha Mallya.

Date: 05/09/2023, Tuesday
Time: 7:30 pm IST/ 10 am EDT

Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJ5f3T7CxA

Prabir Purkayastha is an engineer and a science activist in the power, telecom and software sectors. He is a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum. He is co-author, along with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002); and along with Ninan Koshy, M.K. Bhadrakumar, of Uncle Sam's Nuclear Cabin (LeftWord 2007). He is co-editor with Indranil, Richa Chintan of Political Journeys in Health: Essays by and for Amit Sengupta (LeftWord 2021). He is the editor of Newsclick.in.

Satyajit Rath, Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Science Education Research, Pune.

Frederick Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press)

Ramakrishna Ramaswamy was at the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1986 to 2018. From 2001 to 2018 he also held a concurrent position in the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences at JNU. He retired from the university at the end of October 2018. Currently, he is at the IIT-Delhi as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

Vinutha Mallya is a journalist and book editor. Currently, she is Senior Editor at People's Archive of Rural India (PARI). She is a Visiting Faculty of Journalism at FLAME University and a Visiting Faculty of English at Savitribai Phule Pune University.

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वाम प्रकाशन के इस आयोजन में आप सब सादर आमंत्रित हैं

भुवेन्द्र त्यागी से संजय कुंदन की बातचीत

शनिवार, 28 अक्टूबर, शाम 7.30 बजे, ऑनलाइन

लेफ्टवर्ड बुक्स और वाम प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रस्तुत किताबों व सामयिक विषयों पर चर्चा के मासिक ऑनलाइन कार्यक्रम से जुड़ें।

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ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ वाम प्रकाशन की ज़ीरो माइल सिरीज की एक कड़ी है। इसमें मेरठ शहर के जनजीवन की एक झांकी पेश की गई है और हाल के बदलावों का भी जायज़ा लिया गया है।

भुवेन्द्र त्यागी लेखक और पत्रकार हैं। वह दैनिक भास्कर, मुंबई के कार्यकारी संपादक हैं।

संजय कुंदन कवि-कथाकार हैं। वह वाम प्रकाशन में संपादक के रूप में कार्यरत हैं।

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वाम प्रकाशन के इस आयोजन में आप सब सादर आमंत्रित हैं।

कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह से संजय कुंदन की बातचीत
बुधवार, 6 दिसम्बर, शाम 7.30 बजे, ऑनलाइन

लेफ्टवर्ड बुक्स और वाम प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रस्तुत किताबों व सामयिक विषयों पर चर्चा के मासिक ऑनलाइन कार्यक्रम से जुड़ें।

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ज़ीरो माइल अयोध्या वाम प्रकाशन की ज़ीरो माइल सिरीज की एक कड़ी है। इसमें अयोध्या के इतिहास और जनजीवन की चर्चा के साथ हाल के बदलावों का भी जायज़ा लिया गया है। इसके साथ ही अयोध्या को लेकर चलने वाली राजनीति की भी पड़ताल की गई है।

कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह कवि और पत्रकार हैं। वह अयोध्या में रहते हैं और दैनिक जनमोर्चा से सेवानिवृत्त होने के बाद स्वतंत्र लेखन करते हैं।
संजय कुंदन कवि-कथाकार हैं। वह वाम प्रकाशन में संपादक के रूप में कार्यरत हैं।