Alumna translates book by Indian anti-superstition activist

Jai Vipra (MPP 2016) has translated a book by Dr Narendra Dabholkar from Marathi into English. Dr Dabholkar was an anti-superstition activist who was murdered in 2013 by right wing Hindu nationalist forces in India. The book, Please Think, led to the passage of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013.

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