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From: ZaheraSaed-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:49:05 EDT
Subject: NYC BOOK PARTY/FORUM Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal


Upcoming Events -AT- The Brecht Forum
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Thursday, June 20
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY/FORUM
Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal
(Barbara Nimri Aziz)
"That tyrant is not my target: I am aiming for point zero."
The words of a poet, teacher and insurgent--uttered some 70 years ago in a
remote valley of Nepal. Thousands rallied around her at the time. Then...
silence.
This is a short history of two women from Nepal, Yogamaya (1890-1940) and
Durga Devi (1930-1973). Yogamaya was a revolutionary fighting one tyrant,
Durga a reformer challenging his successor. Each woman emerged from rural
obscurity to oppose Hindu caste privilege, dictatorship, and corruption at
the heart of the nation.
Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, a scholar with a long record of research in the
Himalayas, carried out her work at a religious hermitage on the bank of the
Arun River in East Nepal.
Sliding Scale: $6/$8/$10
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122 West 27th St. 10th Fl.
NYC (Betw. 6th & 7th Aves.)
1,9,N,R to 28th St.
F to 23rd
St., PATH to 23rd St, C/E to 23rd St.
212.242.4201
info-AT-brechtforum.
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