Susie Tharu

Susie Tharu (born 1943) is an Indian writer, publisher, professor, editor and women's activist. Throughout her career and the founding of several women's activist organizations, Tharu has helped to highlight those issues in India.

Career

Tharu as a writer earned her membership on the Executive Committee for Anveshi, an Indian research group dedicated to feminist-theory, where she also served as Secretary. She has been a part of the Suabaltern Studies editorial since 1992. She served on the Board of Advisors for The Feminist Press, where she was also a publisher. She has taught in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and in Kanpur. Most recently, she founded Stree Shakti Sanghatana (SSS) and Anveshi, two women’s activist groups. She edited two volumes of dossier on Dalit writings from South India that focus on the resurgence of Dalit politics in the 1990s.

In addition, Tharu has served on the Advisory Panels of BODHI Centre for Dalit Bahujan Initiatives since 2003, and as a trustee for the Centre for Studies in Culture and Society in Bangalore since its inception. She has served on the Advisory Committee on National Biography for the National Book Trust, served as member of the Governing Council at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, as a trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and as a member of the Joint Committee for South Asia, Social Science Research Council in New York.

Susie

Susie is a male or female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Steven, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana.

Susie

Film and TV

Fictional characters

See also

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic,"Calvin and Hobbes has evinced broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic interest.

Calvin and Hobbes follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. Set in the contemporary, suburban United States, the strip depicts Calvin's frequent flights of fancy and his friendship with Hobbes. It also examines Calvin's relationships with family and classmates. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to Calvin, Hobbes is a live anthropomorphic tiger; all the other characters see Hobbes as an inanimate stuffed toy. Though the series does not mention specific political figures or current events, it does explore broad issues like environmentalism, public education, philosophical quandaries, and the flaws of opinion polls.

Susie (film)

Susie is a 1969 Malayalam language film. It was directed by Kunchacko.

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