Team Herald
PANJIM: Dakshinayan Abhiyan, a recently formed Progressive Organisation will organise “Abhivyakti: Dakshinayan Rashtriya Parishad” from November 18-20 at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.
Addressing a press conference in Panjim on Sunday, Dr Ganesh Devy, National Convenor of Dakshinayan Abhiyan said Dakshinayan is a movement that has sprung up through a collective desire to forge a new solidarity between all progressive forces. It is a struggle for the freedom of creative expression that foregrounds tolerance and dialogue.
It is an attempt to deepen rational thinking as being pivotal to society that is genuinely equal, just and respectful of diversity. Dakshinayan is the long awaited initiative to go beyond caste, class, creed, gender, language, form and genre, to cross borders between identities to nurture imagination without narrow borders and to celebrate the voice that frees the mind from limits imposed by ideologies, credos, partisan institutions and movements.
Datta Naik, Sandesh Bhandari, Adv Cleofato Almeida Coutinho and Maulana Ibrahim were present for the press conference.
The convention will be attended by over 900 delegates of which 600 delegates are from different parts of India and 300 are from Goa.
On November 18, there will be “Sankalp Yatra”, a procession commencing from Ravindra Bhavan at 4 pm, which will culminate at Lohia Maidan at 6 pm. There will be a public meeting at 6 PM which will be addressed by Hameed Dabholkar, Medha Pansare, Shrivijay Kalburgi, Prashant Naik, K Sadchidanand, Dhanaji Gurav, Uttam Parmar, K Neela and Manan Kumar Mandal.
On November 19, there will be an inaugural session in which Ganesh Devy, Leela Samson and Bezwada Wilson will be the main speakers.
There will be a symposium ‘Have Indian Intellectuals failed India? which will be presided by Fr Victor Ferrao. Atmajit Singh, Peter D’Souza and Suresh Dwadashiwar participate. There will be a symposium “Dichotomy between Development & Environment” which will be presided over by Cleofato Almeida Coutinho. Claude Alvares, Avdhut Timblo and Dattaprasad Dabholkar will participate.
There will be Youth specific session which will be presided over by Dilip Prabhudessai on “Culture vs Science – Is it truly a conflict?”
In the evening there will be a talk on “Kashmir: Beyond Bullets”, which will be presided over by Suresh Dwadeshiwar, Editor of Lokmat, Nagpur edition. Shafeeq Shaunk from Kashmir will participate.
There will also be “ Bahu Bhashik Kavi Samelan” presided over by Vasant Abaji Dahake in which leading poets from all over India will take part.
On November 20, there will be a session on “Superstitions & Social consciousness in Indian Folklore” which will be presided over by Jose Lourenco. Subodh Kerkar, Tara Bhavalkar and Anand Patwardhan will take part.
Raju Naik, Editor of Lokmat, Goa Edition will interview Amol Palekar, Rajdeep Sardessai and Nikhil Wagle during the session on Media: Freedom & promiscuity”.
A talk by Yogendra Yadav on “India at Crossroads” will be held followed by discussion by Raosaheb Kasabe.
The concluding session “Action Plan to Fight Communalism” will be presided over by Prabhakar Timble in which Anand Karandikar, Harsha Badkar and Rajan Narayan will participate.
The delegate fee is Rs 1,000 and entry for college students is free on producing identity cards.
