PEOPLES UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
INVITATION
31st August 2011
This is to invite you all to a day long programme, “ Safarnama: Rahein Sangharsh Ki” on the 3rd of September 2011 at the Indian Society for International Law, 9 Bhagwan Dass Road (opposite Supreme Court), Delhi. Each year on this day PUDR holds an annual lecture in memory of Dr. Ramanadham, noted civil rights activist from Warrangal; however this year we decided to do something more.
‘Safarnama’ is our effort at gathering collectively to chronicle and celebrate the struggles and determination of the many pathfinders and fellow travellers on the road to democratic rights, who are no longer with us.
For us in PUDR Sudesh Vaid, CV Subba Rao (founding members, PUDR) and Gobind Mukhoty (PUDR President) continue to be figures of strength despite the fact that most of us have not known them individually. We believe that through their work they have helped enrich the understanding of democratic rights not only for us but for the democratic rights movement as a whole. Through fact-findings, reports, cases like Inside the Family on Dowry Deaths, Lawless Roads on TADA, and the Asiad Judgement, they addressed the rights of a cross- section of society -women, backward castes, contract labour – extending the ambit of democratic rights to the home and the family as well as political and economic structures.
Members of PUDR team into an ivestigation
‘Safarnama’ is also an occasion for us to remember all those persons from various organizations whose commitment, strength and struggles, are what inspire us today on our journey in these troubled times. Dr. Ramanadham(APCLC), Puroshattam (APCLC), Azam Ali (APCLC), K.G. Kannabiran, (PUCL), Jalil Andrabi, Asiya Geelani (JKCCS), Xiao Pi (NPMHR), Parag Das (MASS), Jaswant Singh Khalra , Balagopal (HRF) and R. S. Rao, among others and the unknown many who have worked and passed on in silence.
The day long programme will start at 10 AM on Saturday, 3rd September and together with the cultural programme will go on till 6 PM .
With best wishes
Harish Dhawan (9811667776)
Paramjeet Singh (9910262062)
(Secretaries PUDR)
| सफरनामा: राहें संघर्ष की :
Tentative Program Schedule |
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| Morning Session: Presentation and Discussion | |
| 1 | Brief Inroduction about program |
| 2 | छोटी सी लड़ाई – PUDR song |
| 3 | PUDR – साडे समयां विच – हमारे समय में |
| PUDR – As we see it today | |
| 4 | Song – Vihaan |
| 5 | Chairperson (introduction to speakers and program) |
| 6 | एक सफ़र की शुरुआत: मनोरंजन मोहंती |
| Why PUDR 1979-1980 - Manoranjan Mohanty | |
| 7 | न्याय के रास्ते – गोबिंद मुखोटी और उनका दौर – सुमंतो बनर्जी |
| Law, Justice & Rights in the 1980s – Gobind Mukhoty and his time – Sumanto Bannerjee | |
| TEA BREAK | |
| 8 | सुब्बा राव – संघर्ष और संस्कृति का सफ़र - वरवर राव |
| Democratic Rights & Culture: Yesterday and Today – Varvara Rao | |
| 9 | The Personal and the Political: Sudesh Vaid, the Democratic Rights and Feminist Movements -Urvashi Butalia |
| 10 | Discussion, Submissions and Sharing |
| 11 | Summing up & Closing by Chairperson (Uma Chakravarty) |
| Lunch | |
| Post Lunch: Cultural Program | |
| Total Time | |
| 1 | Song – Vihaan |
| 2 | Bant Singh – introduction and poems |
| 3 | Play – Aatish |
| 4 | Moushumi and Rajinder (एक नज्म) |
| TEA BREAK | |
| 5 | Choreography with songs by Krantikari Sabhyachar Kendra Punjab |
| 6 | Song – Vihaan |
| 7 | Asmita (Play) |
| 8 | Songs – Imphaal Talkies |
| 9 | Song - PUDR team |
