Please join the Society for International Development as they host a Newsmaker Breakfast on April 19th. The topic "India: Will Economic Liberalization Liberate Caste?", shall be discussed and presentated by Vidya Bhushan Rawat. A full breakfast will be served.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a human rights defender, and a humanist in thought, based in Delhi. He originally hails from the mountainous Uttarakhand state of India and has worked extensively in the north Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh. A writer and film maker, Rawat has so far made close to a dozen documentary films and written 10 books on tribal, Dalits, women and Muslim issues in India. Many of his films were screened worldwide at various colleges and universities. Rawat founded the Uttar-Pradesh Land Alliance, a people's movement for land rights in Uttar-Pradesh, and is currently strengthening National Land Alliance, which has supported local autonomous social movements for social justice and land rights in India. He has also carried out Padyatras (foot marches) to raise people's consciousness and political issues on land rights, and spread democratic and secular voices in society. Rawat served as a board member of International Land Coalition, was associated with Asian Human Rights Commission and has worked for nearly 5 years with FIAN international, an international Heidelberg-based organization advocating for the rights to food. He has spoken at various seminars and given talks on the issue of globalization and the issue of marginalized people in India at many universities and colleges in India, as well as at University of Cambridge, University of Sussex, University of Southampton, University of Groningen and Utrecht University. His articles have been published in various newspapers, magazines and journals in India and abroad. He has also been interviewed on BBC radio.
Please join us for breakfast on April 19th!
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SID-OG members - $15, SID-OG non-members - $30, Institutional members - free