Our Events
22-10-2022 @ Book discussion + Panel: 'When Farmers Stood Up: How the Historic Kisan Struggle in India Unfolded'
Event Date : 22-10-2022
Venue Details : facebook.com/leftwordbooks
Event Details :
Join Leftword Books and 1804 Books for a discussion on the recent publication, When Farmers Stood Up: How the Historic Kisan Struggle in India Unfolded.
We will be joined by the author Dr Ashok Dhawale; along with Dr. Vikram Singh, joint-secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers’ Union; Vijay Prashad, author, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter, and Editor at LeftWord Books; and Aishe Ghosh, Indian politician and student activist for a discussion, moderated by Subin Dennis of the Tricontinental Institute.
Speakers:
Dr Ashok Dhawale is President of the All India Kisan Sabha. A medical doctor by training, he began activism as a student. He was drawn into the Kisan movement by the legendary Godavari Parulekar. He is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Dr. Vikram Singh is a joint secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers’ Union.
Vijay Prashad is the author or editor of about thirty books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World, and Washington Bullets. He is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter, and Editor at LeftWord Books.
Aishe Ghosh is an Indian politician and student activist. She is the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union and is a member of the Students’ Federation of India. She was also the CPI(M) candidate from Jamuria constituency for the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
Moderator:
Subin Dennis is an economist and activist based in New Delhi. Hailing from Kerala, he holds M.A. and MPhil. degrees in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was active with the student movement and served as the Delhi State Vice-President of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI). Subin’s writings in English and Malayalam on issues related to economy and politics appear in various periodicals and websites. He worked with the online news portal NewsClick as a writer before joining Tricontinental.
Date: 22/10/2022
Time: 7:30 pm IST/ 10 am EDT
RSVP: https://peoplesforum.org/event/peoples-planning-kerala-local-democracy-and-development/
13-05-2023 @ Talking Red Books: Labour matters - 'Labouring Lives' | 'Body on the Barricades'
Event Date : 13-05-2023
Venue Details : YouTube, Facebook
Event Details :
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
