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 ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ 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 ____________________________________________________________________________ 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. www.brechtforum.org --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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