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Broaden Your Horizons 2024
A Non-Fiction Rec List by Salvadorbonaparte
Books
Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture - Jeffrey Shandler
A Good Man in Evil Times: The Heroic Story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes -- The Man Who Saved the Lives of Countless Refugess in World War II - Jose-Alain Fralon, Peter Graham (trans.)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
Erebus: The Story of a Ship - Michael Palin
Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language - Daniel Tammet
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life - Ian Gibson
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in - Roger Fisher, William Ury
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition - Paul Watson
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny - Amartya Sen
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating - Alan Alda
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Gaston Dorren, Alison Edwards (trans.)
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film - Harry M. Benshoff
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest - Wade Davis
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour - Kate Fox
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She - Dennis Baron
Documentaries
Bowling for Columbine
Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America
ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Podcasts
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Freaks and Psychos: The Disability in Horror Podcast
Lingthusiasm
Ologies with Alie Ward
Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
The Sewers of Paris
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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
DEVELOPMENT DEFINED Rethinking Development by Roland Simbulan (1982) Development and the Developing World by Uma Kambhampati (2004) Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (1999) An Introduction to Economics and Economic Development Issues in the Philippines edited by Reuel Hermoso (1997) Human Geography by Meredith Marsh and Peter Alagona (2009) DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Development Studies edited by Jeffrey Haynes (2005) International Development Studies: Theories and Methods in Research and Practice by Andy Sumner and Michael Tribe (2013) Critique, Rediscovery and Revival of Development Studies by Mural Arsel and Anirban Dasgupta (2015) The Irrelevance of Development Studies by Michael Edwards (1989) Oryentasyon at Kasaysayan ng UP Development Studies Program ni Roland Simbulan (2014) Development Studies in UP: History, Curriculum and Practicum by Edberto Villegas (2014) Development Studies by Trysh Olives (audio-visual presentation) Praxis by Yfur Fernandez (audio-visual presentation) DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS AND MODELS Technocracy and Development in the Philippines by Roman Dubsky (1993) Discourses on Development by Bjorn Hettne (2005) The Development Reader edited by Sharad Chari and Stuart Corbridge (2008) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment by Charles Wilber and Kenneth Jameson (1996) Perspectives and Debates in Development Studies by Benjamin Tolosa (1997) Perspectives on Society, the Economy and the State by Benjamin Tolosa (1997) The Crisis of Development Theory by Bruce McFarlane (1989) The Myth of Development: The Non-Viable Economies of the 21st Century by Oswaldo De Rivero (2001) Models of Development and the Concept of Social Development by Alfonzo Guzman (1993) Notions of Social Development in Philippine National Development Planning by Lourdes Rebullida (1987) Philippine Social Development Perspectives by Rizal Buendia (1995) Rural Administration and Development by Wilfredo Carada (2000) The People's Economy: Philippine Community-Based Industries and Alternative Development by Masaaki Satake (2003) Kaunlaran nina Jessica Dator at Marilu Cardenas (2004) Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences by John Ponsaran, et. al. (2017) Center and Periphery: Economic and Political Levels of Analysis by Miomir Jaksic Challenges to Capitalism: Marx, Lenin and Mao by John Gurley (1976) The Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusions by Jeremy Seabrook (1990) Models of Development: A Comparative Study of Economic Growth in South Korea and Taiwan edited by Laurence Lau (1990) Indigenization for Development by UP College of Public Administration Research (1995) Good Practices on Indigenous People's Development edited by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (2006) Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by EF Schumacher (1973) Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard (audio-visual presentation) DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Political Economy of GNP Accounting in the Philippines by Edberto Villegas (2008) Human Capital and Development in the Philippines edited by Joseph Capuno and Aniceto Orbeta (2008) The Economist Pocket World in Figures Human Development: The Neglected Dimension edited by Khadija Haq and Uner Kirdar (1986) Human Development Report Philippine Human Development Report DEVELOPMENT ETHICS Researching the Vulnerable by Pranee Liamputtong (2006) Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities by Peter Penz, Jay Drydyk and Pablo Bose (2011) Contesting Development: Critical Struggle for Social Change edited by Philippine McMichael (2010) Politics of Unequal Development by Anthony Payne (2005) Science and Technology for Development by James Smith (2009) The Elusive Agenda: Mainstreaming Women in Development by Rounaq Jahan (1995) Male Bias in the Development Process: A Overview by Diane Elson (1995) Migration and Development: A Matter of Seeking Justice by IBON International (2013) DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems by UNDP (2002) Framework and Strategy in Human Wellbeing by Conservation International Philippines (2007) Community Organizing for People Empowerment by Angelito Manalili (1990) DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION Introduction to Development Communication by Jia Virginia Ongkiko and Alexander Flor (1998) Communication for Rural Development: A Source Book by Mario Acunzo, et. al. (2014) Panimulang Kurso sa Gawaing Propaganda by People's Education Resource Center - International Political Economy (2005) Campaign for People's Goals: A Toolkit for Campaigners by Campaign for People's Goals for Sustainable Development (2013) Communication from the Ground Up by Mina Ramirez (1990) Using Video for Sustainable Development: A Training Handbook by Paulina Baustista (1997) Panimulang Kurso sa Gawaing Propaganda by People's Education Resource Center Institute of Political Economy (2005) Making Documentaries in the Philippines by Isabel Enriquez Kenny (2005) Reflections on Development Communication by Nora Quebral (2007) Communication for Development by Alexander Flor (audio-visual presentation) GLOBALIZATION, DEGLOBALIZATION AND ALTERGLOBALIZATION Globalization: The Key Concepts by Thomas Hylland Ericksen (2007) Globalization and Development by Ian Taylor (2005) Globalization and Labor: The New 'Great Transformation' by Ronaldo Munck (2002) The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas Friedman (2000) Power Shift by Alvin Toffler (1990) A People's World: Alternatives to Economic Globalization by John Madeley (2003) Questioning Globalization by Kavaljit Singh (2004) Intensifying Working Women's Burden: The Impact of Globalization on Women Labor in Asia edited by Judy Taguiwalo (2005) Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy by Walden Bello (2002)
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No ‘Aadhaar’: Film runs into UIDAI roadblock | Mumbai News
No ‘Aadhaar’: Film runs into UIDAI roadblock | Mumbai News
Filmmaker Suman Ghosh—who had to contend with the Central Board of Film Certification in 2017 before it freed the “cow” and four other words that were asked to be beeped out from his documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen—has run into trouble again. This time it’s with his feature film ‘Aadhaar’, a Hindi comic drama. Only it’s not a tussle between Ghosh and the certifying body, but a “super…

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Planning Commission like body to be formed in Bengal to honour Netaji: Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: Hitting out at the BJP-led central government for abolishing the Planning Commission conceptualised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her government would come up with a similar body to take ahead the national hero’s ideas and vision. She urged Nobel laureate economists Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee and Bose’s grandnephew Sugata Bose, a historian, to advise the state government on this. “Netaji’s Planning Commission has been dissolved by the central government. They have named it (the new body which replaced the institution) Niti Aayog or Niti Niyog, I do not know. Earlier, I used to go for meetings of the Planning Commission which sought suggestions from each state. Now we cannot share our views,” Banerjee said. The Planning Commission, a government institution which formulated India’s Five-Year Plans besides performing other functions, was set up in March 1950. The Narendra Modi government disbanded it in 2014 and formed Niti Aayog. “So, let’s take some initiative. We will start Bengal Planning Commission to take Netaji’s vision to the world level,” Banerjee said at the state secretariat. “I will request Amartya Sen, Abhijit Banerjee, Sugata Bose to advise us on this,” she said and demanded that Netaji’s birthday on January 23 be declared a national holiday. She was talking to reporters after a meeting of a committee set up by her government to plan year-long celebrations to mark the occasion of the great freedom fighter’s 125th birth anniversary from this January 23. Abhijit Banerjee and other members of the committee attended the virtual meeting. The day will be celebrated as “Desh Nayak Divas” in West Bengal, Banerjee said adding that a “Jai Hind Monument” will soon be erected in Rajarhat area near Kolkata. The slogan ‘Jai Hind’ was popularised by Netaji. The chief minister also proposed to form a National Cadet Corps (NCC) like organisation in state-run schools and colleges and name it ‘Jai Hind Bahini’. “If there is the NCC, why cannot we have a Jai Hind Bahini in every school and college? We should have a short film or a documentary on Netaji which school children can watch. A CD of songs related to Netaji will be brought out,” she said. Banerjee also said that the state government will set up a “national university” which will be named after Netaji. “There are several universities named after Netaji. We will set up a national university without taking help from anybody. The West Bengal government will do it. This university will have links to world class universities like Havard, Cambridge and Oxford,” she said. The chief minister said that a rally from Shyambazar in north Kolkata to Red Road in the central part of the city will be organised on January 23. The CM also stressed on her demand that the Centre declassify the files which might lead to the unravelling of Netajis disappearance. “We have already declassified (some files). We are demanding that the Centre declassify all files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,” she said after the meeting. Besides economist Abhijit Banerjee, eminent personalities such as painter Suvaprasanna, theatre personality Rudra Prasad Sengupta, author Sirsendhu Mukherjee, actor and danseuse Mamata Shankar took part at the meeting and shared their views.
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Ep 20: Food Policy
Watch the IGTV video pt 1 here and pt 2 here
Today’s guest Meghna Ravishankar works as the Director of Planning at the World Food Prize (WFP) that works to inform about food and agricultural policies through annual conferences. With an education in international development and interest in policy, she has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York on the Global Programme on Nature for Development. Her work was focused on supporting multi-stakeholder approaches to promote the role of nature for development, climate change mitigation and adaptation.
In today's episode, she begins by explaining the ways in which food policy impacts our daily lives, the role organisations like the UNDP, WFP and IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) play in conveying this information to various stakeholders. If you are new to the world of policy, we recommend that you glance through some resources recommended by Meghna herself before sitting down to watch the two-part episode.
This episode has many resources and tons of further reading made accesible by level.
Links:
Courses to apply for to break into the Policy space in India:
Graduate Certificate and Post-Graduate Programmes in Public Policy at Takshashila Institution - https://takshashila.org.in/courses/
Contact Meghna on Linkedin if you are keen to learn about opportunities and a career in the world of food policy.
Level 1: Beginner
A primer for beginners to the world of policy. We recommend heading to the About section of some of the organisations. Start with the World Food Prize then head to the United Nations Development Program and finish with the International Food Policy Research Institute.
If your interest is piqued, here are some other organisations linked with policy based on specialisation. 🧐🧐🧐
Research, Think Tanks & Conveners - ICRISAT, FAO, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, World Bank, MSSRF, ICFA, EAT Forum, UN CFS
Large NGOs/Foundations - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, World Vision, ActionAid, Oxfam
Innovation, Recognition & Prizes - The Audacious Project, X Prize, Foodshot Global, Rockefeller Food Systems Vision Prize
Human-Centred Design - Butterfly Works, IDEO, OpenIDEO, Dalberg Design
Consulting - Bridgespan, McKinsey, DAI
Level 2: Intermediate
If you are already familiar with how food policy works and where it can be applied and are now looking for perspectives from those in the field.
Watch these videos or listen to these audio 🖥 🖥 📱📱
TED Talk – Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! By Ernesto Sirolli
TED Talk – The Best stats you’ve ever seen By Hans Rosling
Documentary - Nero's Guests - A film by Deepa Bhatia about rural journalist P. Sainath’s work on farmer suicides in Indi
Podcast – Research Talks by IFPRI
Podcast - Let's Rethink Food by EAT Foundation
Level 3: Nerd
If you’ve made it this far and find yourselves needing more content from the field of policy, you can take a deep-dive into some of these books and reports!
Books/Articles/ Reports 📚 📖 🔖
Development as Freedom - Amartya Sen
Factfulness - Hans Rosling
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Even the Pandemic Can't Stop the Indian Mango - The Juggernaut
Global Nutrition Report
UN CFS High Level Panel of Experts 15th Report
EAT-Lancet Commission Summary Report
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“Il sogno dell’India multiculturale di Gandhi oggi è in serio pericolo”: dialogo con Carlo Buldrini
Certo, c’è l’incontro con Indira Gandhi, memorabile. Accadde il 4 novembre del 1981. La chiusa emoziona. “Al termine dell’intervista strinsi la mano a Indira Gandhi. Mi accorsi allora di quanto fossero piccole e fragili le mani di quella donna che era stata spesso accusata di usare il pugno di ferro”. Indira conferma ciò che Carlo Buldrini sa ormai da tempo. “Quello che tiene unita la gente in India non è la religione, non è l’appartenenza a una stessa etnia, non è la lingua e non è neppure un particolare sistema politico o economico. A unire gli abitanti di questo Paese è un senso di «indianità», un vincolo di appartenenza. Questo, malgrado le differenze etniche, linguistiche e religiose che ci contraddistinguono”. Buldrini, che è stato addetto reggente dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New Delhi e ha insegnato all’università islamica di Delhi, è partito per l’India sull’onda del Sessantotto, dei Beat e con Siddharta sotto al braccio, come tanti. Come pochi, però, anzi, come nessuno, ha conosciuto l’India per davvero, al di là dei lisergici pregiudizi occidentali. Certo, c’è l’incontro con Jiddu Krishnamurti, folgorante. Buldrini ne è affascinato dagli anni Settanta, lo ascolta, lo intervista a Rishi Valley, nel dicembre del 1982. “Vivere con la morte significa vivere senza violenza, senza attaccamento. La morte e la vita non sono separate. Finire significa cominciare”, dice Krishnamurti a Buldrini. Ma c’è altro, oltre a questi incontri formidabili, in quel continente dove gli dèi danzano un ballo sfrenato e le contraddizioni emergono, dilanianti. Cronache indiane (Lindau, 2018, pp.304, euro 23,00; in copertina una fotografia di Buldrini ritrae “una marionetta yakshagana risalente ai primi anni del secolo scorso”), che va letto sinotticamente agli altri libri di Buldrini (Pellegrinaggio buddhista e Lontano dal Tibet, sempre in catalogo Lindau), non è soltanto un registro di reportage, dal sapore intenso. Il libro ha l’effetto di un risveglio dopo lunga gestazione onirica: l’India, appunto, non è l’Eden di chi cerca ristoro dagli afrori d’Occidente – è una terra brulicante di dolore e di stupore. Così, il libro di Buldrini, che ha abitato trent’anni in quel Paese senza negarsi nulla, senza fare sconti all’utopia occidentale, fa l’effetto di un vasto romanzo, che passa dal Kumbha Mela (“Osservai i miei compagni di viaggio e, improvvisa, ebbi la sensazione di essere salito sul treno della morte”) alla storia di Phoolan Devi, la bella maledetta, che “aveva collezionato taglie per 225.000 rupie e 66 mandati di cattura. Rapina a mano armata, sequestro di persona, strage”, raccontata con il piglio dello scrittore assai attrezzato (“Dopo aver aspettato a lungo, la gente poteva finalmente vederla. Era salita sul palco per la cerimonia di resa. La giovane donna era tesa, con lo sguardo assente. Aveva gli zigomi sporgenti, le labbra carnose e una grande benda rossa che le fasciava la fronte. Era piccola di statura. La canna dello spietato Mauser 315 che teneva tra le mani con il calcio piantato a terra, le arrivava all’altezza del cuore. Si chiamava Phoolan Devi. Aveva ventisei anni ma sembrava una ragazzina”). Da qui, da questo atavico, demonico desiderio d’India che preda tutti almeno una volta nella vita, s’alza il dialogo con Buldrini. (d.b.)
Parto da lontano: quando nasce il suo amore per l’India, e perché? Folgorazione meridiana, studi, incontri, l’egida del caso, cosa?
Quest’anno, con libri, articoli di giornale e trasmissioni televisive si è celebrato il cinquantenario del “Sessantotto”. In verità ci sono stati due Sessantotto. In Italia, quello ufficiale, racconta di lotte studentesche (“Abbasso la scuola dei padroni”) che si saldarono con quelle degli operai. C’è stato poi un altro Sessantotto, meno provinciale e che veniva da lontano. Era la continuazione di un sogno che fu già del movimento Beat e dell’Underground americano, fino ad arrivare agli Hippies, i Figli dei fiori. I giovani che appartenevano a questo spezzone del movimento credevano in un mondo migliore, senza la violenza, senza le guerre, senza lo sfruttamento economico, senza il consumismo borghese. Per questi giovani, l’India aveva un’importanza particolare. Il “Viaggio in India” non era un’avventura ma un ritorno; un ritorno alle origini, alle fonti della civiltà, a quel sacro Oriente dove ogni giorno sorge il sole. Ho vissuto in quegli anni completamente immerso in questa “contro-cultura”. Lessi anch’io Siddhartha di Hermann Hesse e il Diario indiano di Allen Ginsberg. Già allora, in oscure stanze che odoravano di incenso e di hashish, ascoltavo le musiche ipnotiche che uscivano dal sitar di Ravi Shankar accompagnato dai tabla di Alla Rakha. Ricordo – era il 1967 – che in un cineclub di Roma, il Filmstudio, vidi il film in bianco e nero di una conferenza del filosofo indiano Jiddu Krishnamurti. Uscito dalla piccola sala cinematografica, mentre camminavo nel Lungotevere romano, pensando a Krishnamurti mi dissi: “Questo lo devo conoscere”. Con queste premesse, il mio “Viaggio in India” fu inevitabile. Ed è durato trentadue anni.
Mi avvicino. Ancora oggi, per noi, alla provincia del mondo, India è Siddhartha, il bagno rituale nel Gange, documentari patinati, tramonti abbacinanti, Mowgli, Kim, Tiziano Terzani e magari un romanzo di Salman Rushdie, I figli della mezzanotte. Al di là del dato culturale mediato, cos’è oggi l’India? Con quali aggettivi la descriverebbe? Da dove, soprattutto, possiamo partire per conoscerla?
Per conoscere l’India bisogna innanzitutto spezzare le lenti deformanti attraverso le quali, per secoli, l’Occidente ha guardato a questo paese. Un esempio. Fin dall’antichità, l’Occidente ripete che l’India è un paese “spirituale”. È proprio così? Ho avuto modo di affrontare l’argomento nel corso di una lunga intervista che ho fatto a Indira Gandhi alla vigilia del suo primo (e ultimo) viaggio in Italia come primo ministro dell’India. A questo riguardo, Indira Gandhi mi ha detto: “È molto romantico mettere al centro dei propri discorsi la spiritualità indiana. Ma io credo che nella nostra gente ci sia la stessa combinazione di spiritualità e di materialismo che caratterizza tutti gli altri popoli del mondo”. Ha poi continuato: “Nei tempi antichi siamo stati abili costruttori di navi, esperti navigatori, scaltri commercianti. Abbiamo dato vita alla più importante industria tessile del mondo e abbiamo costruito città e fortezze inespugnabili. Kautilya, che visse nel III secolo a.C., con il suo Arthashastra ha anticipato per molti versi il vostro Machiavelli. Gli indiani hanno prodotto una raffinata letteratura urbana e le loro sculture sono famose in tutto il mondo per la loro sensualità. Come avremmo potuto fare tutto questo se fossimo stati quasi esclusivamente un popolo spirituale?”. Dunque, per cercare di conoscere l’India, bisogna iniziare con l’eliminare tutti gli stereotipi con cui l’Occidente l’ha sempre descritta. Bisogna poi procedere con cautela, senza arrivare a conclusioni affrettate. Parlando dell’India, Amartya Sen, indiano, premio Nobel per l’economia (1998), è solito citare la sua vecchia insegnante, Joan Robinson, che gli diceva: “Qualsiasi cosa vera tu dica dell’India, è vero anche il contrario”. Per descrivere l’India si può dunque usare qualsiasi aggettivo. L’importante è aggiungervi, subito dopo, anche l’aggettivo di significato contrario.
Qual è stato l’incontro ‘indiano’, tra i tanti, che la ha più impressionata?
L’incontro per me più importante è stato quello con il filosofo indiano Jiddu Krishnamurti. L’ho intervistato a lungo nella sua scuola di Rishi Valley, in Andhra Pradesh, quando Krishnaji era già vecchio e malato. Ma non sono stato il solo a essere colpito dall’incontro con questo personaggio. Lo scrittore e filosofo inglese Aldous Huxley, dopo aver ascoltato a Saanen, in Svizzera, un discorso di Krishnamurti, scriverà a un amico: “È stata una delle cose più impressionanti che io abbia mai sentito… È stato come ascoltare un discorso del Buddha, tale è stata la sua forza, la sua innata autorità, il suo rifiuto senza compromessi di offrire all’homme moyen sensuel una via di fuga, un surrogato, un guru, un salvatore, una guida, una chiesa”. Krishnamurti è stato un filosofo e un rivoluzionario. Diceva che l’individuo deve essere completamente libero. Negava ogni autorità spirituale. Affermava che tutti i credo, tutti gli ideali, altro non sono che tragiche illusioni. Paralizzano l’uomo e distorcono il suo rapporto con la natura e con gli altri esseri umani. Sono stati questi credo e questi ideali a creare conflitto nel mondo. L’uomo deve invece cercare la verità dentro di sé. Nessuna religione, nessun insegnamento, nessun testo sacro, nessun guru, possono aiutarlo a liberarsi. Nel corso della mia lunga intervista (riportata integralmente nel mio libro Cronache indiane, Lindau 2018) ho chiesto a Krishnamurti: “Esiste un limite tra libertà individuale e responsabilità collettiva?”. Krishnamurti mi ha risposto: “Esiste davvero l’individuo? In ognuno di noi è racchiusa l’intera coscienza dell’umanità. Ognuno di noi è il mondo. Tutti gli uomini hanno in comune la medesima coscienza. Quando si capisce questo diventa impossibile uccidere un altro essere umano”.
Carlo Buldrini con Indira Gandhi, intervistata il 4 novembre 1981
E qual è stato, invece, l’episodio che è stato fonte di turbamento?
Tra i tanti, ne cito uno molto piccolo e apparentemente insignificante. Era il 1971 ed ero in India da pochi mesi. Frequentavo i corsi della School of Planning and Architecture, la scuola di urbanistica e di architettura di New Delhi. Con un piccolo gruppo di studenti della facoltà ci recammo in un villaggio dell’Haryana per studiarne la struttura sociale che, in India, vuole dire la divisione in caste. Camminando tra le casupole di fango del villaggio, ricordo che vidi un baracchino di legno dove si vendevano sigarette e paan, le foglie di betel che gli indiani masticano con avidità. Si avvicinò un uomo corpulento vestito con una dhoti e un kurta bianchi. Chiese tre sigarette. Le sigarette vennero poste su una specie di mensola di legno che sporgeva dal piccolo chiosco. L’uomo le prese e, per pagare, gettò a terra, tra la polvere, i pochi centesimi di rupia del costo delle sigarette. “Perché ha fatto questa cosa?” chiesi ai miei compagni di corso? “È un brahmino – mi risposero – e, pagando, ha voluto evitare di toccare le mani del venditore di sigarette”. “È un pezzo di merda!” esclamai. I miei compagni furono sorpresi dalla mia reazione. Per loro era tutto normale. Sono tremila anni che l’India funziona così… Questo episodio ci riporta agli stereotipi occidentali. Tiziano Terzani, famoso giornalista, arrivato in India è caduto anche lui nelle solite banalità che si scrivono nel raccontare un’India “mistica e spirituale” che, spesso, non c’è. A proposito del modo di salutarsi degli indiani, Terzani scrive: “Noi ci stringiamo la mano dopo averla aperta per mostrare che non nascondiamo armi. Qui [in India] la gente unisce le mani al petto e si dice reciprocamente namasté, saluto la divinità che è in te”. Terzani evita di dire che il vero motivo per cui gli indiani si salutano con le mani giunte è perché sono terrorizzati dall’idea di poter toccare le mani di una persona di casta inferiore.
Come si conciliano (se si conciliano) musulmani e hinduisti? Ricordo, a proposito, i saggi di Naipaul… la convivenza è possibile, difficile, satura di futuro?
Per poter rispondere a questa domanda, serve una premessa. Nel 1947, con la partition, la drammatica “spartizione” dell’India, nacquero due stati indipendenti, l’India e il Pakistan. Ma mentre il Pakistan diventò una nazione confessionale di fede islamica, l’India scelse di essere una democrazia in cui tutte le religioni potevano convivere pacificamente tra loro. La partition provocò “la più grande migrazione umana della storia”. Milioni di musulmani si trasferirono in Pakistan e milioni di hindu trovarono rifugio in India. Ci furono violenze efferate, con decine di migliaia di morti. Nel nuovo Pakistan trovarono dimora i musulmani ricchi e potenti, ansiosi di diventare la classe dirigente di un nuovo stato islamico disegnato tutto per loro. Fuggirono in Pakistan anche molti musulmani poveri che vivevano nelle regioni dell’India situate a ridosso della nuova – e assurda – linea di confine tracciata dalla matita dell’inglese Sir Cyril Radcliffe. Ma molti musulmani altrettanto poveri che vivevano nel vasto territorio indiano lontani dalla nuova linea di confine, anche per mancanza di mezzi, decisero di rimanere in India. È così che oggi, in India, ci sono 180 milioni di musulmani, il 14,9% della popolazione totale. Musulmani e dalit, gli ex “intoccabili”, costituiscono le due sezioni più oppresse della società indiana. (I dalit, che sono 200 milioni, sono chiamati anche “intoccabili” perché dediti ai mestieri impuri, trasportare le carogne degli animali, pulire le latrine). Ma torniamo ai musulmani dell’India. Il partito del Congresso di Indira Gandhi li ha sempre sostenuti ricevendone in cambio il voto durante le elezioni politiche. La cosa ha provocato a Indira Gandhi forti critiche da parte dei gruppi fondamentalisti hindu. Con il declino del partito del Congresso, che fu già del Mahatma Gandhi, di Nehru e di sua figlia Indira, ha preso sempre più forza in India il Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp), un partito nazionalista hindu. Si arriva così alle ultime elezioni politiche generali indiane (2014) dove il Bjp di Narendra Modi ha ottenuto la maggioranza assoluta dei seggi nella Lok Sabha, il parlamento di New Delhi. Ma il Bjp è un partito “di facciata”. Alle sue spalle opera la potente organizzazione hindu chiamata Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Rss), l’Associazione dei volontari nazionali. Questa organizzazione nacque nel 1925 e, negli anni ’30, si ispirò direttamente al fascismo di Mussolini e al nazismo di Hitler. M.S. Golwalkar che ricoprì la carica di “leader supremo” dell’Rss, scriverà parole di elogio della Germania nazista che “per mantenere la purezza della sua Razza, ha purgato il Paese delle sue Razze semitiche: gli Ebrei”. E aggiunse: “Questa è una buona lezione che noi nell’Hindustan dobbiamo imparare e da cui dobbiamo trarre profitto”. Sarà un ex militante dell’Rss, Nathuram Godse, ad assassinare nel 1948 il Mahatma Gandhi, accusato di appeasement nei confronti dei musulmani. Ancora oggi i militanti dell’Rss vedono nei musulmani e nei cristiani dell’India degli intrusi, appartenenti a due religioni che definiscono “non indiane”. È così che nell’India odierna di Narendra Modi, sempre più spesso musulmani e dalit – molti di questi ultimi convertiti al cristianesimo – vengono linciati in pieno giorno perché accusati di uccidere la vacca che gli hindu ritengono essere sacra. Con l’ascesa al potere del Bjp, il sogno che fu già di Nehru e di Gandhi di un’India laica, multiculturale, inclusiva e nonviolenta, sembra essere improvvisamente svanito e la convivenza tra hindu e musulmani è messa seriamente in pericolo.
Cosa le ha lasciato l’India?
Rispondo a questa domanda brevemente. Dei trentadue anni in cui ho vissuto in India, per almeno venti di essi sono stato molto povero. Dopo i due anni della borsa di studio offerta dal governo indiano, decisi di rimanere in India perché mi interessava studiare a fondo quel paese. Ma non avevo un lavoro fisso e uno stipendio. Scrissi, molto saltuariamente, per alcuni giornali italiani e cominciai a insegnare la lingua italiana per poche rupie al mese. In quegli anni in cui ero molto povero, anche l’India era molto povera. Questo mi permise di vivere come gli indiani e di rimanere in stretto contatto con loro. Potei così capire a fondo quel paese. E questo mi permise anche di ascoltare e a volte di farmi cullare da quella che Gandhi chiamava “la musica triste e dolce dell’umanità”. Questo è quello che l’India mi ha dato e questo è quello che porto ancora dentro di me.
L'articolo “Il sogno dell’India multiculturale di Gandhi oggi è in serio pericolo”: dialogo con Carlo Buldrini proviene da Pangea.
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Amartya Sen documentary set for March 9 release, ‘Gujarat’ beeped out
Amartya Sen documentary set for March 9 release, ‘Gujarat’ beeped out
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Nobel laureate and renowned economist Amartya Sen
The documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be released here on March nine after a beep on the word ‘Gujarat’ as recommended by the Censor Board, its director Suman Ghosh said today.
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Entitlement failure
“’Humanitarian imagery,’ the historian Heide Fehrenbach suggested, ‘is moral rhetoric masquerading as visual evidence.” (63)

Amie and Terry are caught in an unforgiving phalanx of substance abuse and poverty. January 6, 2018
“In fifty years much of Western society has inched toward a public-service-lite ‘hollow state,’ a term used to describe a society, most pronounced in the United States and Britain, where the state withdraws from primary responsibility for public-service provision. The move in this direction is based upon ‘trickle-down’ economic theory and the belief that self-regulating markets will solve social problems with minimal care in the community.” (66)
“In 1975, more than a quarter of the British population were living in or on the margins of poverty. However, discovering this as a process—explaining why many people remained in poverty—proved more challenging, as the photographers discovered: ‘To document a condition is not to explain it. The condition is a symptom, not a cause; more precisely, it is the outcome of a process.’ The Survival Programmes photographs in themselves were, ultimately, unable to develop a narrative that entirely succeeded in explaining inner-city poverty, although the interviews helped. They hinted at a sort of self-perpetuating ‘culture of poverty’ exacerbated by families unprepared for the form of social change that the political class deemed to be good for them.” (68)
“Documentary photographers committed to exploring the condition of those living in poverty have struggled to understand its nature.” (68)
“Many of the issues that photographers have sought to address in the medium’s first 150 years have been driven by outrage at various forms of what the economist Amartya Sen calls entitlement failure. Sen used the term to imply that problems faced by the poor were not necessarily of their own making. His context was famine, but the same thinking might easily be applied to landlessness, drug addiction, domestic violence, poverty, foreclosure and inner-city housing.” (69)

All excerpts from the 2016 book The Documentary Impulse, by Stuart Franklin.
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Amartya Sen documentary, The Argumentative Indian, gets CBFC nod, sans 'Gujarat' reference
Amartya Sen documentary, The Argumentative Indian, gets CBFC nod, sans ‘Gujarat’ reference
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Kolkata: Filmmaker Suman Ghosh whose documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was previously red flagged by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), on Friday (5 January) said the board has now allowed the film to be released without any modification to the previously objected words, except a reference to “Gujarat”.
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Finally! Documentary on Amartya Sen gets a clearance from CBFC Putting a rest to all controversies around the documentary ‘Argumentative Indian’ on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen by national award winning director Suman Ghosh, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on Friday cleared the film for release, without beeping the three words which the board had earlier objected to.
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Censor Board Wants 'Gujarat' To Be Removed From Amartya Sen Documentary: Director - NDTV
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Censor Board gives green signal to Amartya Sen documentary
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Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has agreed to release the impending documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen titled "The Argumentative Indian".
The documentary was in the middle of a controversy last year in July when Suman Ghosh, National Award-winning director refused to abide by CBFC Kolkata diktat of beeping four words in the film -- cow, Gujarat, Hindutva and Hindu.
Ghosh announced Friday that the CBFC agreed to the release of his documentary in its entirety, including the four words that the board's regional office had objected to earlier.
Ghosh told PTI in Kolkata: "CBFC chairman Prasoon Joshi watched 'The Argumentative Indian' in Mumbai yesterday along with other board members and gave his consent to the words. After seeing the film yesterday, Joshi held a discussion with me and said 'the film can be released without any cuts."
The documentary is essentially an hour long and is shot in two parts in 2002 and 2017 -- has Sen talking about the social choice theory, development economics, philosophy and the rise of right-wing nationalism across the world, including India.
Ghosh added in his statement, "I am happy that the CBFC respects the freedom of expression in arts. Joshi told me he got to learn a lot about the Nobel laureate through my documentary."
He is now hoping to get a written communication on the matter from the board.
Sources in CBFC Kolkata, however, spoke on the issue and said that the matter is currently being handled by the chairman and that the regional office had no say in the matter now.
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Refugee Research Network (RRN) Research Digest
Below is the RRN Research Digest for 26 October 2017. The RRN Research Digest provides a synopsis of recent research on refugee and forced migration issues from entities associated with the RRN and others.
Recent Publications and New Research
Speaking Back to a World of Checkpoints: Oral History as a Decolonising too in the Study of Palestinian Refugees from Syrian in Lebanon, by Mette Edith Lundsfryd
This article questions the validity of conventional notions of borders as fixed territorial areas. It examines the narratives of eight persons who are Palestinian stateless refugees from Syrian who have escaped to neighboring Lebanon since 2011. The narrators often experience border crossing as a pervasive part of their reality one that can be described as “social death,” a result of the limitations imposed by borders on the lives of stateless people. The article argues that the accounts presented speak back to a world of borders whilst challenging the nation-state driven order of borders as fixed spaces. The authors also use reflexivity to discuss how to use privilege, for example the privilege of possessing a European passport, and having recourse to document experiences across geographical areas, as a way of speaking back to a world of checkpoints whilst advocating a process of research decolonization. Available here.
Groningen Journal of International Law vol. 5, ed. 1
This edition on Migration and International Law was published on 20 September 2017 and all content is provided free of charge. In this issue the Journal aimed to highlight scholarship on a broader spectrum of international migration law rather than to merely focus on the global refugee crisis of recent years. The articles cover topics such as the development of the right to nationality and statelessness under the international migration law framework as well as the omission of development-induced displacement in Colombian internal displacement policies and look at factors beyond the internal armed conflict at the root of Colombia’s record number of internally displaced persons. Some articles propose strategies such as those to enhance the protection of migrants through international law by shifting the discussion from regulation of migration to protection of migrants using human rights, soft law and regional approaches. More articles and details available here.
The Dominant Discourses of Refugees, Recognition, and Othering in Malaysia: Regimes of truth versus the Lived Reality of Everyday Life, by Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Refugees in Malaysia rely on the UNHCR for recognition and on the Malaysian authorities for tolerating them. The paper argues that in Malaysia newcomers such as refugees are usually cast into subjectivities that either align or juxtapose with a particular Malaysian identity. In addition, the socio-legal indistinctiveness of refugeeness in Malaysia has resulted in several regimes of truth that capture refugees of varying religious and ethnic backgrounds differently. This paper will unravel the current discourses that engage refugees based on their ethnic and religious background differently. The paper also demonstrates ways and practices refugees themselves employ that circumvent, challenge, and acquiesce to these discourses. Available here.
New book: Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policymakers, edited by Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn
Immigration detention is an important global phenomenon increasingly practiced by states across the world in which human rights violations are commonplace. Challenging Immigration Detention introduces readers to various disciplines that have addressed immigration detention in recent years and how these experts have sought to challenge underlying causes and justifications for detention regimes. Contributors provide an overview of the key issues addressed in their disciplines, discuss key points of contention, and seek out linkages and interactions with experts from other fields. More details available here.
Reports, Working Papers and Briefs
Never in a child’s best interests: A review of laws that prohibit child immigration detention, by the International Detention Coalition
This briefing paper reviews the applicable human rights standards regarding child immigration detention, highlighting expert clarifications that the detention of children in the context of migration is never in their best interests and always a child rights violation. The paper then reviews the ways in which this standard is implemented in legal frameworks by describing laws in over 15 countries that establish safeguards against child immigration detention. Available here.
Urban refugees in Delhi: Identity, entitlements and well-being, by Jessica Field, Anubhav Dutt Tiwari and Yamini Mookherjee
This detailed report reflects on the study of two connected, contemporaneous realities in India – urban refugees in India (in this case, specifically, refugees in India’s capital city of Delhi), and India’s lack of a legal framework, domestic or international, that guarantee their protection. Seeking to understand the aspirations and desires of Sikh and Christian Afghan refugees and Rohingya refugees leading incredibly precarious lives in Delhi, the study engages in an exploration of the various factors that contributed to their state of insecurity, and proposes its own take on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to formulate long-term, sustainable development and security goals for urban refugees based on the notion of ‘self-reliance.’ Available here.
News Reports and Blog posts
The Balkans: Children repeatedly abused by border authorities
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has exposed the violence that continues to be perpetrated on children and young people by European Union Member State border authorities and police on Serbia’s borders with Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia in a new report titled Games of Violence. The report uses medical and mental health data and the testimonies of our young patients in detailing the violence. Available here.
Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Pledging Conference
A ministerial-level pledging conference was held in Geneva on 23 October. Co-hosted by the European Union and the Government of Kuwait, and co-organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and OCHA, it aimed to raise the necessary resources to enable the humanitarian community to meet the most urgent needs of Rohingya refugees who sought shelter and safety in Bangladesh. Available here.
Will DACA Parents Be Forced to Leave Their U.S.-Citizen Children Behind?
With the cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an estimated 200,000 children are at risk of losing their parents. Available here.
Digital and Social Media
Movie review: 'Human Flow' Offers A Searing Look at The Global Refugee Crisis
Human Flow is a documentary directed by Ai Weiwei that explores the everyday lives of people fleeing various conflicts around the world. The review available here.
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Pahlaj Nihalani explains cuts in Amartya Sen documentary
Pahlaj Nihalani explains cuts in Amartya Sen documentary
CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani says the words muted from The Argumentative Indian “indicate a clear contempt for Indian culture and democracy”.
CBFC formally sends notice seeking cuts in Amartya Sen documentary
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I can’t ban a film just because people want it: Pahlaj Nihalani on Congress demanding ban on Indu Sarkar
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