The role of the developed world as consumer and the role of the developing world as the consumed may now be complicated as the latter yields its own voracious elite, but the former continues to determine taste. In all this, those who originally set out to highlight and try to undo the injustices of the world find themselves marginalized and out of date unless they have the chutz pah and the marketing genius of a Michael Moore. In many parts of the world, including I am afraid in America, these woes are further compounded by censorship, both overt and covert, and its more insidious sibling –self-censorship. And yet the voices of resistance have not altogether disappeared. My keynote will discuss the need to bring them out of the margins. Let me be frank. For many years now whatever I’ve experienced on the ground and all the reading and research I’ve come across leads me to the belief that I stand right now in the camp of the enemy. patwardhan/writings/keynote.htm
Posted on: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:29:20 +0000