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Vivek Pandit

Vivek Pandit, Chairperson of Maharashtra’s Tribal Area Review Committee (Status of Cabinet Minister) started our as a pioneering social movement leader in Maharashtra, India. He is the founder of several social organisations including Vidhayak Sansad, Shramajeevi Sanghatana, Samarthan and the National Centre for Advocacy Studies. He has worked to challenge inhuman practices such as bonded labour and child labour by strengthening community leadership and collective action. His efforts were recognised internationally through the Anti-Slavery Award, UK (1999), Ashoka Fellowship and EisenhowerRead More...

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The Fury Of Hunger

Books by Vivek Pandit

How does one deal with the paradox of bonded labour in a free country?

Why do farm workers who feed the richest country in the world go to sleep hungry?

What can we do to bring hope and justice in the lives of the poor and oppressed?

These are the hard-hitting questions that Vivek Pandit raised and sought answers to and which form the basis of The Fury of Hunger.

This book weaves together the author’s life experiences of organis

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Vivek Pandit, Chairperson of Maharashtra’s Tribal Area Review Committee (Status of Cabinet Minister) started our as a pioneering social movement leader in Maharashtra, India. He is the founder of several social organisations including Vidhayak Sansad, Shramajeevi Sanghatana, Samarthan and the National Centre for Advocacy Studies.  He has worked to challenge inhuman practices such as bonded labour and child labour by strengthening community leadership and collective action. His efforts were recognised internationally through the Anti-Slavery Award, UK (1999), Ashoka Fellowship and Eisenhower Fellowship. 
He has worked as member of several national committees on rural development and labour rights. He was member of Action Committee on Bonded Labour set up by the National Human Rights Commission and of Maharashtra’s state committee for universalization of primary education.
He was elected as Member of State Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra for the term 2009 to 2014. His writings include Bandhmukthi, Akher Savlya Jinklatsch and Parighavarun in Marathi and A Handbook on the Prevention of Atrocities Act and Fearless Minds in English. His articles on government policies and social issues feature regularly in Marathi newspapers.

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