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Live Encounters with 12 Asian Authors Founded 2010 Free Online Magazine From Village Earth April 2018 Live Encounters with 12 Asian Authors Cover Photograph by Joo Peter 2018 april © www.liveencounters.net L I V E E N C O U N T E R S M A G A Z I N E April 2018 2010 - 2017 Celebrating our 8th Anniversary Support Live Encounters. Donate Now and Keep the Magazine live in 2018! Live Encounters is a not-for-profit free online magazine that was founded in 2009 in Bali, Indonesia. It showcases some of the best writing from around the world. Civil and human rights activists, animal rights activists, poets, writers, journalists, social workers and more have contributed their time and knowledge for the benefit of the readers of the magazine. We are appealing for donations to pay for the administrative and technical aspects of the publication. Please help spread the free distribution of knowledge with any amount that you feel you want to give for this just cause. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Mark Ulyseas Publisher/Editor [email protected] All articles and photographs are the copyright of www.liveencounters.net and its contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the explicit written permission of www. liveencounters.net. Offenders will be criminally prosecuted to the full extent of the law prevailing in their home country and/or elsewhere. Photograph © Randhir Khare © www.liveencounters.net april 2018 2018 april © www.liveencounters.net A special thanks to Merin Jose, PR Executive, SAGE Publications India, for assisting Live Encounters Magazine in putting togetherContributors this special issue of outstanding authors. April 2018 2010 - 2017 Celebrating our 8th Anniversary Journey of a Southern Feminist Why write a book on history of Hinduism? Dr Devaki Jain Professor R Ramachandran Devaki Jain is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), R Ramachandran is a retired professor of Geography from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), and member of the Advisory has held positions as the Head of the Department of Geography, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Council of the intergovernmental NAM (Non-aligned Movement Institute for the Empowerment of Womenomen, the Director of the Delhi School of Economics at various points in time. His first book Urbanisation and Urban (NIEW)Development, in Kuala and Lumpur. the UN: In A Sixty-year2006 Dr Jain Quest was for awarded Equality the and Padma Justice Bhushan ( Award. She has published several Systems in India, was published in 1989 and has been reprinted every year since. After retirement in 1996, the books and articles on Indian development and women’s status. Her most recent publication is W author has been devoting himself full time to the study of Hindu scriptures in original Sanskrit. In 2010, he published Claiming India 2005). hisIs first the book Personalon the nature of Hinduism---Hinduism: beyond Private In the context ofand Manusmriti, Public? Vedas & Bhagavad Gita. Dr Jyoti Mohan Dr Arnab Chatterjee Jyoti Mohan has taught numerous courses on South Asian, South Asian American, Asian American, and World Arnab Chatterjee is former Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Law at Auro History at the University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Morgan State University, Surat, Gujarat. He was a Fellow in social and political philosophy at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study University. Most recently, she was a Lecturer at Morgan State University for 11 years. She currently serves on (IIAS), Shimla, India. With diverse departmental affiliations and degrees in political science, social work, the Board of Editors for H-French-Colonial, after having served several years as Reviews Editor and List Editor. sociology, history and philosophy, he has been a faculty in pluridisciplinary social sciences at various institutes She is also a List Editor for an Academci Listserv on French–India academics. Mohan has published articles in and universities across India and West Bengal, including Yashwant Rao Chavan Academy of Development FrenchSpeaking Colonial History, with Journal the of World Margin History, and Francophone Postcolonial Studies. AdministrationMaking (YASHADA), Development Pune; Jadavpur University, Sustainable Kolkata and more. Dr Debasree De Prem Shankar Jha - Prem Shankar Jha is an independent columnist, a prolific author and a former information adviser, Prime Min ister’s Office (India). He completed his master’s in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Debasree De is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Maharaja Srischandra College, University of Calcutta. Oxford in 1961. Over the past few decades, he has been Editor in The Economic Times, The Financial Express, She has a PhD in history from Jadavpur University. She has many contributions in journals and in edited books. and Hindustan Times, and the Economic Editor in The Times of India. Jha has many published works to his HerPositioning special interests are TribalResearch... Studies, Gender Studies, Environmental History, Ancient Indian History, Indology. credit.Urban Renewal in India Edited by Dr Margaret Kumar Dr S K Kulshreshta and Dr Supriya Pattanayak Dr Margaret Kumar is Adjunct Professor at Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. She has been appointed Senior Fellow (Honorary) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr Kumar has worked at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University, Australia, in several faculties and at the Institute of S. K. Kulshrestha is an internationally renowned urban and regional planner with five decades of experience KoorieGender Education, Socialization... Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. Her forte lies in her multi-skilled qualities. inMindful teaching, research Communication and professional practice. Dr Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay Dr Kalinga Seneviratne - Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay is former Chairman, West Bengal Regional School Service Commission (Western Kalinga Seneviratne is Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He Region), Bankura. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, is a media analyst with many years of experience in journalism. He was the Australia and South Pacific cor Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith, West Bengal. He has done PhD on ‘Gender Inequality, Popular respondent for the Inter Press Service news agency. From 2005 to 2012, he was the Head of Research at the Culture and Resistance: A Case Study of the District of Bankura’, under the guidance of Professor Harihar Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Singapore. Dr Seneviratne has been an award winning Bhattacharyya from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, in 2006. His published works include the books radio broadcaster in Sydney. He received the Media Peace Award (1987) from the United Nations Association Identity,Revisiting Vivekananda: Society From Revival and to Renaissance Transformative (2015) and more. Social Categories ofMy Australia Chandal and the Educational Life Award (1992) from the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Dr Debal K SinghaRoy Manoranjan Byapari (Translated from Bangla by Professor Sipra Mukherjee) Debal K. SinghaRoy, MA, MPhil, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, School of Social- Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the Australian Government Manoranjan Byapari has worked at many kinds of jobs and also been writer-in residence at Alumnus Software, Endeavour Fellowship, 2010, at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and the Commonwealth Fellow Calcutta. He never went to school or university. He is a popular writer in the literary magazines and in 2014 ship at The Open University, the United Kingdom (2006–07). Furthermore, he is a fellow with the Alternative received the Suprabha Majumdar prize awarded by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. He was awarded the 24 Ghanta Development Studies Programme, Netherlands (2003); a visiting research fellow at the University of Alberta, Ananya Samman in 2013. He and his writings are well known as he speaks about Dalit issues in Hindi, becoming Canada (2001); and a visiting scholar at the la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (1999 and 2007). proficient in the language while he was with the Mukti Morcha of the late Shankar Guha Neogi in Chhattisgarh. © www.liveencounters.net april 2018 2018 april © www.liveencounters.net J O U R N E Y O F A S O U T H E R N F E M I N I S T D E V A K I J A I N Devaki Jain is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), and member of the Advisory Council of the intergovernmental NAM (Non-aligned Movement Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW) in Kuala Lumpur. In 2006 Dr Jain was presented by the President of India with the Padma Bhushan Award for exceptional and distinguished service. She has been a member of a number of Indian Government policyWomen, committees Development, and hasand publishedthe UN: A Sixty-year several books Quest and for articlesEquality on and Indian Justice development and women’s status. Her most recent publication is (2005). DrJourney Devaki Jain of a Southern Feminist In the last six to seven decades, there have been dramatic changes in the world, not only in the geography of political power but also in terms of the emergence of “voice” from the so far unheard spaces and places. In the case of women, while this emergence may have been bubbling and boiling over the previous several centuries, it came out with something of a bang in the 70s starting with the UN’s First World Conference on Women held in Mexico City in 1975.
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