Heywood hardy biography of mahatma
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Meat-Eating, Masculinity, and Renunciation in India: A Gandhian Grammar of Diet
Gender & History ISSN 0953–5233 Parama Roy, ‘Meat-Eating, Masculinity, and Renunciation in India: A Gandhian Grammar of Diet’ Gender & History, Vol.14 No.1 April 2002, pp. 62–91. Meat-Eating, Masculinity, and Renunciation in India: A Gandhian Grammar of Diet Parama Roy This essay undertakes a semiotic reading of the familial and national(ist) economies of carnophilia, vegetarianism, and masculinity in the life and work of Gandhi, especially in his autobiography. The topic of Gandhi’s vegetarianism (and his other forms of culinary discipline, including fasting) scarcely needs any introduction for scholarly and popular audiences of South Asian studies, or, indeed, for audiences more broadly conceived. Gandhi was almost as noted, indeed notorious, for his experiments in alimentation and elimination as for those in celibacy and nonviolent political action. The fact of their forming a single associative continuum should be by now almost entirely commonsensical for modern audiences, with their knowledge of the intimacy between the gastronomic and the libidinal, as it was commonsensical for the experimenter himself. Yet while Gandhi’s experiments with sexuality have received some attention, his e
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Mandela Long Take delivery of To Freedom
Mandela Long Take delivery of To Freedom
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Adam Yamey's Blog: YAMEY, page 15
THE DAVID LEAN cinema, where we watched a superb film called “Coming to America” (made in 1988), is within a complex known as the Croydon Clocktower. In the heart of Croydon, this cultural centre is housed in what was originally constructed as the district’s Town Hall.
The Town Hall is a magnificent – exuberant – example of Victorian brickwork. It was constructed to the designs of a local architect, Charles Henman, and inaugurated by the Prince of Wales in 1896. There is a large statue of his mother, Queen Victoria, outside the façade on Katherine Street.
Until the 1980s, the enormous edifice was used for local government purposes. In the late 1980s, and early 1990s, the interior was renovated. Areas that were no longer needed for council business were repurposed as a public library, a café, a museum, and the David Lean cinema. A large room, which retains its original interior décor, the Braithwaite Hall, continues to be used for concerts, theatrical shows, and other public functions. It looked to me that the inside of the building had been hollowed out to create a spacious central atrium with a glass roof, which can be overlooked from galleries surrounding it on each floor. The result is pleasing to the eye. From the outside of the buildin