Readings
There are three reading groups being held in Philadelphia, Urbana-Chaimpaign, USA and Bengaluru, India to read and discuss several important figures of the Indian as well as the Black freedom movement, their ideas and their relevance in our world today.
Azadi reading group, philadelphia & Urbana-Champaign
Now reading
The current reading is marked in red
In Search of a Majority, James Baldwin, 1961
A Talk To Teachers, James Baldwin, 1963
Galileo Galilei, W.E.B. Dubois, 1908
Whither India, Jawaharlal Nehru, 1933
The Indian Struggle, Subhash Chandra Bose, 1920-42
The World & Africa, W.E.B. Dubois, 1946
Good News For The Underprivileged, Howard Thurman, 1935
Doctrine of the Sword, M.K. Gandhi, 1920
Transformed Nonconformist, Martin Luther King Jr, 1954
My Trip to the Land of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, 1959
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence, Martin Luther King Jr, 1960
Future
Neither a Saint nor a Politician, M.K. Gandhi, 1920
The Mahatma and the Poet, Letters between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941
America : The Land of Superlatives, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 1946
Resurgence of Indian Women, Aruna Asaf Ali, 1991
Fragments of the Past : Selected Writings and Speeches of Aruna Asaf Ali, 1989
Apology for Heroism, Mulk Raj Anand, 1946
Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, Indira Gandhi, 1969
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr, 1963
Whither now and Why, WEB Dubois, 1960
Dark Princess, WEB Dubois, 1928
Review of Gandhi's Autobiography, WEB Dubois, 1948
Letter to Nehru, WEB Dubois, 1956
Primitives, Paul Robeson, 1936
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin. 1963
The Azadi Reading Collective also has a chapter in the Midwest, which meets all year. Facebook : @azadi.midwest
indian freedom struggle reading circle, bengaluru
Join us every first and third Saturday of the month in Bengaluru, India to read and discuss the work and ideas of those who fought our struggle for freedom. The discussions will be open and all are welcome!
The Year is organized by members of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy & Black Liberation, based in the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia, and the Gandhi Global Family.