Monday, April 7, 2008

Literary Shenanigans- In the beginning..

The deal here is - YOU tell us when you are interested in something- we will definitely work around you, cos the more opinions involved the more we learn.



Here is the list of books/articles/essays/films and the tentative dates we are going to discuss them- please let us know if you have any other suggestions

1. Animal Farm - George Orwell (Tentatively - 20th April 2008)


2. Arundhati Roy "The Greater Common Good" and DAM/AGE a related documentary (May '08)

ARUNDHATI ROY'S ARTICLE : THE GREATER COMMON GOOD
http://www.narmada.org/gcg/gcg...

Arundhati Roy - DAM/AGE: A film with Arundhati Roy
http://www.weroy.org/video_damage.shtml


3. The Little Prince - Antoine Saint-Exupery (June '08)

4. Fahmi Reza's "Sepuluh tahun sebelum Merdeka" and Sharing the Nation (Clive Kessler, Mavis Puthucheary, Norani Othman) (July '08 - We'll try to get Fahmi to coordinate the discussion, so we'll plan it around him - its his short film by the way! )
http://10tahun.blogspot.com/

5. The Autobiography of a Sex Worker - Nalini Jameela (August '08)

6. Barack Obamas speech "A More Perfect Union" and Martin Luther Kings "I have a dream" (We'll try to schedule it around the US Presidential Elctions circa Nov 4th '08)

Barack Obama speech in full: a more perfect Union - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

7. Parti Keadilan Rakyats Malaysian Economic Agenda (this could be the future of our country)
(it'll be whenever Anwars comes back to play..:) )
www.keadilanrakyat.org
http://www.keadilanrakyat.org/library/documents/me...

www.keadilanrakyat.org
http://www.keadilanrakyat.org/library/documents/me...

Between us, we have most of these books/films/articles. Let us know if you need them!!

1 comment:

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