[act-ma] Sun 7/17 MIT: Peoples Movement In India: Lalgarh and Beyond

[Umang Kumar]

Place: MIT 3-133
Date: July 17, 2011
Time: 4 – 6 pm

PEOPLES' MOVEMENT IN INDIA: LALGARH AND BEYOND

DR. PARTHO SARATHI RAY

(Sanhati http://sanhati.com/ and Indian Institute of Science Education
& Research, KOLKATA)

Co-Sponsored by:

  -- Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia
  -- Sanhati
  -- The South Asia Forum at MIT

About the speaker: Partho Sarathi Ray is an academic-activist located
in Kolkata, India. He is a founder member of Sanhati
(http://sanhati.com/), and has written widely on social and political
issues in contemporary India. Some of his recent writings are:

    1. A Year of Lalgarh: http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2040/
    2. The Political Geography of Special Economic Zones in India:
http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2896/

He is a microbiologist by training and teaches at the Indian Institute
of Science Education & Research in Kolkata.

More about Lalgarh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lalgarh



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