[WSMDiscuss] 'I Have Become the Tide' by Githa Hariharan

[Michael Gasser]

Hello Umakant.
Your post (and a little more reading about the author) got me very
interested in reading Hariharan's book, but I discovered, to my surprise,
that there is no way for someone in North America to order it, either the
paper or electronic version. I even wrote to the author, who replied that
it was unfortunate but that she didn't have any suggestion other than
having a friend in India buy the book and send it. I happened to mention
this to Jai Sen today as were talking, and he suggested I write to you, not
about sending me the book but because you might be interested in the more
general problem of inaccessibility of knowledge due to intellectual
property rights, etc. (I'm actually somewhat interested in this topic
myself.) Of course the inaccessibiliy usually works the other way around,
with people in the Global South denied access to material published in the
North.
At any rate, I wonder if you think this topic is worth bringing up on the
WSM-Discuss list.
In solidarity,
Michael

El 3/9/19 a las 09:50, Umakant via WSM-Discuss escribió:
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> Dear Friends
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> Greetings! Please click on the link mentioned below to read about ‘I Have
> Become the Tide’ written by Githa Hariharan. On the second link also
> mentioned below if interested you could buy the novel.
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> Do pass it on to others in your circle/network.
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> *‘I Have Become the Tide’ by Githa Hariharan: The years of the flood *
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> Latha Anantharaman, The Hindu, March 07, 2019, Updated: March 09, 2019
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> _https://www.thehindu.com/books/i-have-become-the-tide-by-githa-hariharan-the-years-of-the-flood/article26457403.ece_
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> *A luminous novel that draws you out from its constructed world and
> throws you down in front of today’s newspaper *
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> Where is that land where water flows free?’ This is the refrain of a song
> that Chikka’s cattle-skinner father sings, longing for renewal in a swift
> river. His daily reality, however, is the pond in the untouchable colony:
> frothy, filthy, boiling with algae, and cooking poison. Githa Hariharan’s
> novel /I Have Become the Tide/ begins a few centuries ago, on the day
> Chikka’s father is buried. Chikka flees the colony, carrying nothing but
> his drum and his despair, and finds refuge with two men who are part of a
> utopian society.  
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> In the embrace of their new village, Anandagrama, where caste will not
> determine where Chikka lives, what he eats, or whom he loves, his tears
> and words are ready to flow like the river that runs through the story. A
> band of mystics and revolutionaries have envisioned a life free of caste,
> cautiously negotiating a space around the town and its temples, the hard
> kernel of orthodoxy. They work, they sweat, and they sing about the land
> they love, the land on which they do not own one blade of grass, one
> grain of dust. Chikka becomes a washerman, he marries, and it is his son
> — child of a washerman, grandson of a cattle-skinner — who becomes known
> as the poet Kannadeva.
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> The Book is available for purchase on the publisher’s website
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> _https://www.simonandschuster.co.in/books/I-Have-Become-The-Tide/Githa-Hariharan/9789386797384_
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> With Regards
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> Umakant, Ph. D
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> New Delhi
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> */My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have
> faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose
> our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the
> fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For
> ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom.
> It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.
> B.R.Ambedkar/*
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