Chindu (organization)

Chindu

Type	Dalit cultural resource centre
Established	2000
Director	Sri L. Suresh (Convenor)
Location	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Affiliations	dappu
Data as of June 2008

Chindu is a dalit cultural resource centre located in Hyderabad in India. Chindu is part of the dappu collective.

It promotes Dalit arts, culture as well as empowers dalit leadership.

Administration

Sri Lelle Suresh is the Convenor of Chindu and lives in Hyderabad.

Events

From time to time, the centre organises fetes^[1] & festivals.^[2]

Productions

Chindu produced a 42-minute documentary^[3] on Madigas entitled Mahadiga - The man descending from above.^[4]

See also

Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union

References

Notes

1. Independent Catholic News, London, September 27, 2002, Internet, accessed June 29, 2008.
2. The Hindu, Andhra Pradesh, Monday, October 22, 2007, Internet, accessed 29 June 2008.
3. The Hindu, Images, Internet, accessed June 29, 2008
4. For a full review of the documentary, Renu Ramanath of the Hindu had reviewed it in the Hindu, Life, Thursday, September 9, 2004.

Further reading

• Mahalingam, Ramaswami (University of Michigan) (2003). "Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class" 59 (4).
• Thirumaavalan, Meena Kandaswamy (2004). "Uproot Hindutva: The Fiery Voice of the Liberation Panthers".* Susan Bassnett, Peter Bush (2006). "The Translator as a Writer".
• Barbara R. Joshi (1986). "Untouchable ! Voices of the Dalit Liberation".
• Senftleben, Martin (1992). "Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati" (PDF) I.
• _______________, (1992). "Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati" (PDF) II.