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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Tue Apr 23 15:35:05 2002
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:32:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
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Dear Payal,
Please come and send this announcement to your contacts, AID, Asha and
other lists.
Hardeep
Committee On Rights in South Asia
Presents a talk on
Democracy and Human Rights in India's peripheries
By
Ram Naryan Kumar,Ashok Agrwaal and Sirdar Gurtej Singh
A discussion on peoples struggle for democracy in Punjab,Nagaland,Jammu and
Kashmir
Thursday April 25, 2002 6:00PM
Room 1-150 MIT
Ram Narayan Kumar leads the Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in
Punjab (CCDP), an umbrella organization of several human rights groups that
documents human rights abuses in the State and campaigns for
acknowledgement and accountability. Kumar has spent almost five years in
Indian prisons: during the Emergency from June 1975 to March 1977, when he
was interned without trial, and for his involvement with the plight of
colliery workers in a tribal area of Madhya Pradesh.
Sirdar Gurtej Singh, a former Indian Administrative Services Officer who
retired after the Indian Army's attack on the Golden Temple in 1984, has
served as Co-Convenor of the CCDP. He is the National Professor of Sikhism
and has written several political histories regarding Punjab's relationship
with India.
Contact:Hardip Mann manex@channel1.com 617-497-0316
Jaskaran Grewal jgrewal@law.harvard.edu
Payal Parikh parekh@pimms.mit.edu
Cosponsored by South Asian Womens Forum and South Asian Center
