Sunil Sahasrabudhey on the New Basis for Radical Social Change in India

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Five-part video conversation starting here at http://vimeo.com/13852920


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"This is Part One of a five-part set of videos where I interview Sunil Sahasrabudhey, a political-social activist and philosopher with over thirty years of experience of people’s movements in India. The video was shot at Vidya Ashram (vidyaashram.org) in Varanasi, India. In this clip Sunilji elaborates on the division of Indian society between the bahishkrit samaj (ostracized society, those outside the modern capitalist society) and the pashchimikrit samaj (westernized society).

Sunilji has successfully combined his theoretical interests in the philosophy of science and knowledge, Gandhian philosophy and the theoretical basis of emancipatory movements with an active engagement in political movements such as the Students’ Movement of the 1970s and the Farmers’ Movement of the 1980s and 90s. He has written books and articles, in Hindi and English, on topics such as the peasant movement in India and Gandhi’s philosophy of Science. His articles have appeared in journals such as Seminar and Gandhi Marg. He was the co-editor of Mazdoor Kisan Niti and currently writes for Lokavidya Panchayat, a Hindi Monthly."


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The full series is also available at the video page of the Vidya Ashram