From: Madhu Chandra <finicy@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/25
Subject: Press Invitation to Launch of the Best Selling Book "Post
Hindu India" by Prof Kancha Ilaiah
To: pressnotes@googlegroups.com
Dalit Freedom Network
Medchal Road, Jeedimetla, Secunderabad 500 055. www.dalitnetwork.org
Dr. Joseph D'souza - International President
Press Invitation
Launch of the Best Selling Book "Post Hindu India" by Prof Kancha Ilaiah
New Delhi, November 24, 2009
"Post Hindu India: A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and
Scientific Revolution" authored by Prof Kancha Ilaiah, which The Hindu
has reported as the best selling on November 17, 2009 will be launched
today. After press briefing, a panel discussion will follow.
Press Briefing
At Gulmohar, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003
November 25, 2009 at 6.15 PM
Panel Discussion at 6.30 PM
Panelists
Prof. S. K. Thorat, Chairman, University Grants Commission
Dr. Joseph D'souza, International President, Dalit Freedom Network
Dr. Udit Raj, National Chairman, All India Confederation of SC/ST Organizations
Prof. Kanch Ilaiah, a passionate thinker, social activist and author,
is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Osmania
University, Hyderabad, India . He has authored the best selling book
"Why I am not a Hindu."
Therefore, I on behalf of the Organizing Committee would like to
request to assign your journalist, photo and video journalist to cover
the event and media briefing from the author.
Mr. M. Chandra
Media In-charge
9716004939
About the Book
http://www.sagepub.in/browse/book.asp?bookid=1422&mode=1
Kancha Ilaiah, the author of the best selling book Why I am Not a
Hindu, pens a thought-provoking critique of Brahmanism and the caste
system in India, while anticipating the death of Hinduism as a direct
consequence of, what he says is, its anti-scientific and
anti-nationalistic stand.
This work challenges Hinduism`s interpretation of history, with a
virulent attack on caste politics, and also takes a refreshing look at
the necessity of encouraging indigenous scientific thought for the
sake of national progress. It establishes Hinduism as a `backward`
religion that suppresses the latent scientific and productive
potential of the Dalit–Bahujan communities. The author says this
oppressive system of spiritual fascism is detrimental to both the
future of religion and the nation-state. He thus criticizes the idea
of spiritual justice or varnadharma, used to justify the caste system,
as rooted in spiritual inequality.
On a micro-analytical level, it is based on a thorough study of the
productive knowledge systems of the Dalit–Bahujan communities of
Andhra Pradesh, and provides a detailed day-to-day analysis of the
scientific technological processes and events at work in the life of a
member of these communities. On a macro level, it shows how Hinduism
fails to negotiate between faith and reason, unlike other major
religions of the world.
Kancha Ilaiah critiques the intellectual imagination of the dominant
communities and inspires the marginalized. In the process of doing so
he crafts a work of immense socio-political interest which appeals to
academics, and also to all those who are concerned about contemporary
India`s polity and social fabric.
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