A talk by the author, November 7th, 5-7pm Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room, 418 N. Pleasant Street, UMass.
The official website commemorating 75 years of Indian Independence does not carry a single photo, video or story of any living freedom fighters, and mainstream media has largely ignored the savagery of British colonialism. The book "The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom" shares the stories of 15 ordinary Indians who, along with millions of others, fought against the British Raj in courageous ways without personal gain. Palagummi Sainath is founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). A journalist and reporter for over four decades, he has covered rural India for over 30 years. His new book, The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom, is about the last living fighters in India’s struggle for Independence. He has won over 60 national and international reporting awards and has been teaching journalism for over three decades. PARI is a multimedia digital platform that covers every region and section of rural people in 15 languages. In 7 years, PARI has won over 50 journalism awards. Sainath currently resides in Mumbai.
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Sponsored by
Political Economy Research Institute - Asian Political Economy Program,
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Five College Consortium.