Giving Voice To The Subalterns
How Ecolook Is Enabling The Rural Artisans Of West Bengal, Bihar And Orissa With Wings To Fly High It was nearly a century ago, when probably on a wintry night in Turin, Antonio Gramsci coined the term, subaltern . And when, in the sunny days of 1983, India was about to script history by edging past the much-fancied West Indies side to lift the coveted Prudential Cup (as it was officially known then), another Indian, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak came up with her epoch-making thought, ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ . But little did they know, that there would be another bunch of dreamers in the 21 st century, who will be dealing with this term as mothers deal with their child – love and care galore! In her famous essay, Spivak argued, can the subaltern speak? She went on to address the question from various perspectives and firmly concluded, that the subaltern can speak, if they are given a voice. Allah Megh De, Pani De, Chaya De Re Tui (O God! Give Us Cloud, Rain And Shadow) – Ready Fo