balaji@uscvax.UUCP (Balaji Narasimhan) (02/26/86)
Forwarded from iitnet ------------------------- From KAPUR%ge-crd.arpa@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Sat Feb 22 00:40:06 1986 Date: 18-FEB-1986 23:18 Sender: KAPUR Subject: Dr. Kothari's visit To: iitnet@ucbernie@smtp@tcpgateway, bits@UIUC@smtp@tcpgateway Hello: Some friends of mine and I are planning to arrange a speaking tour of Dr. Rajni Kothari in North America sometime in April. As some of you may already know, Dr. Kothari is a well known political scientist and an author of many books and articles on India. He is also on the editorial board of many international journals, ALTERNATIVES being one of them. A few months ago, I had circulated on the net one of his articles on communalism and electoral politics that appeared in the Illustrated Weekly. Dr. Kothari is a professor of political science, the Director of Center for Developing Societies in Delhi University, the President of People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), and the founder of Lokayan, an umbrella organization for grass-roots movement in India. Lokayan and he were recently awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, a sort of alternative Nobel Prize set up by a Swedish-German writer Jakob von Uexkull. If any of you, India Association, your department or your friends would like to have Dr. Kothari visit your campus and speak, please let me know. You will have to arrange to contribute to cover his round-trip transportation within North America and living expenses; it will be nice if you can also contribute some money to cover his transportation expenses between India and NYC. Dr. Kothari can speak on any of the following topics: 1. Evolution of Grass roots organizations in India 2. Human Rights Situation in India 3. Rajiv Gandhi and Political Climate in India and possibly other topics. If you would like to help us in any way in planning Dr. Kothari's visit, please contact me: Thanks Deepak Kapur Kapur@GE-CRD Tel. (518)-387-6690 (office) (518)-482-4370 (home) -------- -- CSNET: balaji@usc-cse ARPA: balaji@usc-cse.cse.usc.edu uucp: balaji@uscvax.uucp or ...{{decvax,ucbvax}!sdcsvax,hplabs,allegra,trwrb}!sdcrdcf!uscvax!balaji