November 20: Mumbai: Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lecture
Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lecture
An Invitation
The Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Committee invites you to the First Annual Lecture dedicated to the memory of the dynamic and inspiring communist revolutionary. Com Anuradha passed away on April 12th this year.
SAMIR AMIN, eminent Marxist scholar and writer will deliver this lecture on `Beyond Liberal Capitalism in Crisis, the Socialist Perspective for the 21st Century.
On Anuradha Ghandy
Com Anuradha, or Anu as she is fondly remembered, spent her early years in Mumbai working actively in the student movement and Democratic Rights movement. She worked as a university lecturer teaching sociology and writing on various issues. After shifting to Nagpur Com Anu became a leading activist of the womens movement and trade union movement and became a well known and popular mass leader. She moved to Chandrapur, in eastern Maharashtra and in the face of increasing repression on peoples movements, she chose to go underground. Her writings on the dalit and womens perspective are some of her exceptional contributions to Marxist theory. She was also active in the movement for revolutionary culture. Anuradha led her entire life as a devoted communist revolutionary contributing both her intellectual and organizational skills and inspiring personal qualities to the CPI Maoist party. She took the hardships of underground life in her stride. It was during her stay in a tribal area, taking political classes for tribal women, that she was struck by malaria. She passed away on 12th April.
On Samir Amin
Professor Samir Amin is one of those scholars who believes that the current state of the world is not just about culture, national identity and religion but about imperialism, capitalist development and underdevelopment and, ultimately, class. Amin, along with such equally renowned names as Emmanuel Walerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, Gunder Frank and others, is viewed as among the founders of the “world systems” school of thought which gained tremendous influence in the late sixties and seventies, not just in academia but also as guiding framework to the left-wing activism that overwhelmed the world’s campuses during those times.
He has written more than 30 books including Imperialism & Unequal Development, Specters of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions, Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder and The Liberal Virus. His memoirs were published in October 2006. His latest work, published in 2006, is Beyond US Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World.
The Programme
There are many ways in which the revolutionary movement is keeping alive Com Anuradhas moving spirit, the most important being the continuation of her work. The Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Committee in Mumbai has been set up by her friends, comrades and family members. The Annual Lecture series is a small contribution to the effort of keeping her memory alive.
We earnestly request you to participate in this effort.
The 1st Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lecture
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008.
Lecture: ‘Beyond Liberal Capitalism in Crisis, the Socialist Perspective for the 21st Century’ by Samir Amin
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Venue: Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai, Fort, Mumbai
ANURADHA GHANDY MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
P.A. Sebastain, Asghar Ali Engineer, Sagar Sarhadi, Anand Patwardhan, Neera Desai, Anusuya Dutt, Jyoti Punwani, Sunil Shanbag, Pushpa Bhave, Jayant Kripalani, Gurbir Singh, Kumud Shanbag, Gulan Kripalani, Anand Teltumbde, P K Das, Shereen Ratnagar, Wilas Wagh, Siddharth Bhatia, Sambhaji Bhagat, N. Vasudevan, Manorama Savur, Sujata Patel, Bernard D’Mello, Vilas Sonawane, Gayatri Singh, Pravin Nadkar, Sanober Keshwaar
Peace Is Doable
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