Lorrie sullenberger biography of mahatma
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The colonial cartography of the body of India
“The body is the first and most natural of man’s instruments.”
M. MAUSS, “Les Techniques du corps” (), in Sociologie et Anthropologie, PUF,
This date refers to one of the most dramatic moments in the history of South Asia. Its political expression was the marking out of new borders in Hindustan: on the one hand, between India and Pakistan; on the other, between Hindus and Muslims on the subcontinent. An excerpt from a work by pandit Jawaharalal Nehru, Independence and After, echoes the consequences of this event:
All your communications were upset and broken. Telegraphs, telephones, postal services and almost everything, as a matter of fact, was disrupted. Our services were broken up. Our army was broken up. Our irrigation systems were broken up and so many other things happened. But above all, what was broken up which was the highest importance was something very vital and that was the body of India1.
2The body of India
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Dharma demands us to fight for racial justice
My Fellow Hindu Americans,
As I write to you, the National Guard and local police are just 50 feet away from my home arresting ung protestors who blocked a highway.
On Saturday, our family joined peaceful protests in downtown Philadelphia, where people of all shades and ages marched together in solidarity, chanting for racial justice, opposing oppressive policing, and insisting upon the equal worth of Black lives.
Then on Sunday, we joined city denizens to help clean up the aftermath of riots carried out by a small subset of people in our downtown shopping district, as local business owners looked on with disbelief at a situation that they couldn’t have imagined getting any worse after two and a half months of the COVID shutdown.
Our nation is dealing with a deadly global pandemic that has stolen over , lives in America in a matter of months. But the murder of George Floyd has brought into stark reality that we can no longer ig
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