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Prachi Patankar

 

Prachi Patankar is an activist, educator, and arts administrator. She grew up in rural India, raised by a freedom-fighter grandmother and parents deeply involved in peasant movements. For over a decade in New York City, she has been part of movements against war, police brutality, and racism. She has done popular-education organizing and media-literacy training through social-justice organizations like Youth Solidarity Summer and Palestine Education Project. Prachi is currently involved with South Asia Solidarity Initiative, War Resisters League, and Afghan Women`s Mission.

ARTICLES BY Prachi Patankar

  • Γιόγκα, αποικιοκρατία και ινδουιστικός φασισμός

    Γιόγκα, αποικιοκρατία και ινδουιστικός φασισμός

    Ο τοίχος μου στο Φέισμπουκ τελευταία έχει γεμίσει από αναρτήσεις και άρθρα που αφορούν τη γιόγκα στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Βρίσκω πολύ εκνευριστικό να διαβάζω πόσο «τραυματικό» για τους Αμερικανούς νοτιοασιατικής καταγωγής είναι να βλέπουν λευκούς που διδάσκουν και κάνουν γιόγκα. Μεγάλωσα σε ένα ..

  • Ghosts of Yogas Past and Present

    Ghosts of Yogas Past and Present

    My Facebook feed has recently been saturated with posts and articles regarding yoga in the United States. It has been very frustrating to read about how white people teaching and doing yoga is apparently “traumatic” for South Asian Americans. I grew up in a village eight hours away from Mumbai. ..