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No Onions Nor Garlic

Literature & Fiction

Srividya Natarajan

Contemporary

Penguin books.India

What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891 1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10, in Baroda after his return from Columbia University, and while traveling. Battling odds, Ambedkar drafted the Constitution of India and eventually embraced Buddhism. Experiences similar to Ambedkar's continue to haunt a majority of India's 170 million dalits. They are still What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891 1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10, in Baroda after his return from Columbia University, and while traveling. Battling odds, Ambedkar drafted the Constitution of India and eventually embraced Buddhism. Experiences similar to Ambedkar's continue to haunt a majority of India's 170 million dalits. They are still denied water, shelter and the basic dignities of life. In this ground-breaking work, Pardhan-Gond artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam interweave historical events like the Mahad satyagraha with contemporary incidents. Defying conventional grammar, they infuse fresh energy into the graphic idiom through their magical art mounted on an epic scale.

Bhimayana: Experiences Of Untouchability

S. Anand

Navayana

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), one of India’s foremost revolutionaries, grew up untouchable. Battling against the odds, he gained multiple doctorates, campaigned against social discrimination and the caste system and went on to draft the Constitution of India. Throughout his life Ambedkar faced routine discrimination: in school at the age of 10; in Baroda after his return from Columbia University; and while travelling in later life. The discrimination experienced by Ambedkar continues to haunt a majority of India’s 170 million dalits as many are still denied water, shelter and the basic dignities of life.\nIn this ground-breaking work, Pardhan-Gond artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam interweave historical events with contemporary incidents, infusing fresh energy into the graphic idiom through their magical art.\nDurgabai Vyam, who has illustrated a dozen books and won the BolognaRagazzi award in 2008 for The Night Life of Trees, says Bhimayana is her most accomplished work yet. Subhash Vyam began as a sculptor before turning to painting. They live in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.\nSrividya Natarajan is a dancer and novelist; she lives in London, Canada. S. Anand is the publisher of Navayana.

Bhimayana Experiences Of Untouchability

Navayana Publishing

Jotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Slavery (Gulamgiri) a scathing and witty attack on Brahmanism and the slavery of India s lower castes that it engendered. Unlike Indian nationalists, Phule (1827-1890) saw the British as people who could tame the local elite the Brahmans who wielded power simply on the basis of birth. Inspired by Thomas Paine s Rights of Man and the ideals of Enlightenment philosophers, Phule mounted a critique of the Vedas as idle fantasies of the Brahman mind. With the objective of liberating the Sudras and Atisudras, he founded the Satyashodak Samaj (Society of Truthseekers).  Phule dedicated Slavery to the good people of the United States as a token of admiration for their sublime, disinterested and self-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro Slavery. Written in the form of a dialogue between Dhondiba and Jotiba reminiscent of Buddha s Suttas, of Socrates dialogues Slavery traces the history of Brahman domination in India, and examines the motives for and objectives of the cruel and inhuman laws framed by the Brahmans.  This revolutionary text remains relevant today, and given Phule s rather graphic imagination lends itself almost naturally to graphic art. Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan also weave in the story of Savitribai, Jotiba s wife and partner in his struggles, who started a school for girls in Pune in 1848, despite social opprobrium.  This is perhaps the first time that a historical work of nonfiction has been interpreted as a graphic book in India.

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Juggernaut Publications

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