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"Priya Basil (born 1977 in London, England) is a British author and political activist. Her work has been translated into over half a dozen languages, and her first novel was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace and an initiator of the movement Writers Against Mass Surveillance. Writing Her first novel, Ishq and Mushq, was published in 2007. Transworld (Publisher) Ishq and Mushq is a family saga which illuminates the problem of cultural identity for immigrants over several generations, and raises questions of memory, exile and self-rediscovery. Ishq and Mushq came second in the World Book Day "Book to Talk About 2008" Book to Talk About 2008 competition. The novel was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008 and long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize Dylan Thomas Award 2008 and the International Dublin Literary Award. IMPAC Award 2009 Her second novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart, Transworld (Publisher) was published in June 2010. It tells the love story between the Muslim Lina and the secular Kenyan architecture student, Anil. The characters are caught in the maelstrom of socio-political problems as they try to negotiate between different loyalties – to family, faith, society and themselves. Priya's novella Strangers on the 16:02 is published on 17 February 2011. Basil’s work has been translated into Italian, Edizioni Piemme (Publisher) German, Schöffling & Co. (Publisher) Russian, ACT (Publisher) Bulgarian, ICU (Publisher) Brazilian Portuguese, Nova Fronteira (Publisher) Dutch, Arena (Publisher) Croatian, Mozaik / Svijet Knjige (Publisher) and Serbian. Books & Marso (Publisher) In autumn 2014, Priya Basil took up the prestigious Writers' Lectureship at the University of Tübingen. She shared the honour with Chika Unigwe. Taiye Selasi, and Nii Ayikwei Parkes also gave supporting lectures. Basil's other writings have been published in The Guardian, and the Asia Literary Review, She is a regular contributor to Lettre International, the leading German-language literary magazine. Her themes include art,https://www.lettre.de/beitrag/basil-priya_alle-blindheit- der-welt Europe,https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/europa-mein-schmerz-die- entgrenzung-des-unmoeglichen/19190770.html democracy,http://www.taz.de/!5319263/ migrationhttps://www.lettre.de/beitrag/basil-priya_woher-kommst-du and (neo-)colonialism.STAHL, DER DIE ERDE BEISST, lettre.de (German) Political work In 2010, Priya co-founded Authors for Peace. Authors for Peace with the journalist Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst. It is intended to be a platform from which writers can actively use literature in different ways to promote peace. The first event by Authors for Peace took place on 21 September 2010, the UN's International Day of Peace. With the support of the International Literature Festival Berlin, International Literature Festival Berlin Priya hosted a 24hour-live-online-reading by 80 authors List of Peace Day authors from all over the world. The authors read from their work in a gesture of solidarity with those who are oppressed or caught in conflict. In September 2013, Basil signed the German novelist Juli Zeh's Open Letter to Angela Merkel. The Guardian, 20 September 2013 The letter criticizes Merkel's reaction to the Snowden revelations and demands a more robust response. Priya Basil read this letter aloud in public on the opening day of the International Literature Festival Berlin, as part of the festival's 'Berlin Liest' (Berlin Reads) initiative. Later, she helped organize, and took part in the anti- surveillance protest action 'March on the Chancellory', led by Zeh on 18 September 2013. "Aufmarsch der Autoren", Die Zeit online, 18 September 2013 Basil is also one of the initiators of 'Writers Against Mass Surveillance', 10 December 2013 a worldwide movement against mass surveillance that was launched on 10 December 2013. Basil is one of the group of seven international writers who wrote the appeal, gathered the first 560 signatures from world-famous writers, and organized the global launch of the appeal. The Guardian, 11 December 2013 The other initiators are Juli Zeh, Ilija Trojanow, Eva Menasse, Janne Teller, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger. The appeal was published through exclusive deals with leading newspapers in more than thirty countries worldwide, for example in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, F.A.Z., Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter, 10 December 2013 and is also an online pledge at Change.org which the general public can sign. Basil continues to be active against mass surveillance. She spoke at Re:publica Berlin 2014, and has published essays and articles about the threat mass surveillance poses to democracy and individual freedom, including in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel and the Danish newspaper Politiken. BücherFrauen, BücherFrauen a co-operation of 800 Women from the German Publishing Industry, puts forward an annual list of female candidates for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 Priya Basil was one of the 20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh. In 2017 Priya Basil, together with Ulrich Schreiber, conceptualized and co-curated the International Congress for Freedom and Democracy, which took place from 8–10 September 2017 as part of the International Literature Festival Berlin. Basil has written extensively on Europe and the future of the European Union, and has argued about the need for an official European public holiday across all member states. In 2017 she launched a campaign, which includes a petition on change.org, for the establishment of such a day. In 2018, at the invitation of Sonja Longolius and Janika Gelinek, directors of the Literaturhaus Berlin, she curates A European Holiday! – an event intended not just as a cultural extravaganza but as a political intervention – another step towards making the idea of such a day reality. Personal life Priya grew up in Kenya, returning to the UK to study English literature at the University of Bristol. She had a brief career in advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Short Biography (International Literature Festival Berlin) Basil now lives in Berlin. Wired called her "a British, Kenyan, Indian, German-resident fiction- writer. Priya is another of those contemporary novelists whose life wouldn't do within a novel, because it's simply too implausible". Wired.com: Organizers of the Petition Against Mass Surveillance: Priya Basil, 14 January 2014 Bibliography * Ishq and Mushq, 2007 (Hardback , Paperback ) * The Obscure Logic of the Heart, 2010 (Trade Paperback ; Paperback and ) * Strangers on the 16:02, 2011 (Paperback ) * Erzählte Wirklichkeiten: Tübinger Poetik Dozentur 2014 (Poetics lectures, in German, with Chika Unigwe, Paperback ) * Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity, non- fiction, 2019 (Hardback ) External links Videos * Priya Basil On Reading and Writing PriyaBasilChannel, YouTube, 21 February 2010 * Priya Basil "Heart – Bite"-Quotes The Obscure Logic of the Heart PriyaBasilChannel, YouTube, 10 May 2010 etc. * Priya Basil Strangers on the 16:02 – Train Rides 1–12 PriyaBasilChannel, YouTube, January 2011 * Priya Basil "Literary Bridge" – a virtual Join me on the Bridge Women for Women International, March 2011 event initiated by Priya and Authors for Peace for Women for Women International in honour of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day womenforwomenuk, YouTube, March 2011 Reviews * Brinda Bose on Ishq and Mushq, India Today (26 March 2007) "Spice Route to Soul" India Today, 26 March 2007 * James Urquhart on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, Financial Times (8.7.2011): "Basil's novel is subtly played out; passionate and intelligent in scope." Financial Times, 8 July 2011 * Eve Lucas on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, ExBerliner (June 2010): "Basil's maturity as a writer is newly reflected in characters whose emotional, ideological and political lives are closely intertwined-redolent of the complex personalities created by writers such as C.P Snow and Evelyn Waugh... Basil spans a large canvas of well observed and entirely credible third world nepotism against which Lina's work for a better world appears as a cry in the desert. Woven into the bigger picture are many small, luminous threads of conversational snippets, situational snapshots, the humdrum of life lovingly seen and recorded. The micro- and the macrocosm are bound together by all that happens in between and above all, in-between people. The book flows at all levels, but here, for me, is Basil's true strength: her interest in people, her sympathy with them, and the way she brings this to bear on her narratives." ExBerliner, June 2010 * Farhana Shaikh on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, The Asian Writer (July 2010): "A brilliant second book and one that makes a stand to address the complex battle and struggle for identity and independence faced by the modern Asian woman." The Asian Writer, July 2010 * "Romeo, Juliet and Islam" – Tales From The Reading Room-Review of The Obscure Logic of the Heart, August 2010: "I took a bit of a punt on this book as it was outside my usual run of reading, but I absolutely loved it, one of the best reads so far this year. What I admired most was Priya Basil's ability to weave her themes together seamlessly, making the brutality of the world reverberate in distressing ways in the crucible of passionate love between men and women, between parents and children and between good friends. I felt I'd been given an illuminating glimpse into a part of the world about which I knew nothing, and had been caught up in a powerful story that made me think." Tales From The Reading Room, 10 August 2010 * Brinda Bose on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, India Today (7.8.2010): "…what makes Basil's Obscure Logic stand out from any other everyday heart-wrencher is the maturity with which it recognizes that there are no easy choices or irrefutable answers to dilemmas and confusion about the nature of love and passion. Basil seeks neither solutions nor compromises, and yet she writes a prose that burns and scorches with wry conviction about young love that refuses to say die." India Today, 7 August 2010 Articles * Shanghai City Weekend Editor "emilyc"'s Live-Blog on Ishq and Mushq Shanghai City Magazine, 8 March 2008 * Priya Basil on Pushing the Limit, Chronicles, Crossing Border Festival, The Hague (November 2007) Crossing Border Festival, November 2007 * Spotlight Interview, Spotlight Magazine (June 2008) Spotlight Magazine, June 2008 * Found in Translation, Essay by Priya Basil, Asia Literary Review, Spring 2008 ALR, Spring 2008, No. 7, Page 171-178, Hong Kong * My Home is Our Castle, Essay by Priya Basil, Heat 22, Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, Spring 2010Heat 22, Spring 2010, Sydney * The Asian Writer-Interview on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, July 2010" The Asian Writer, July 2010 * Losing Their Religion, Essay by Priya Basil, Asia Literary Review, Autumn 2010 ALR, Autumn 2010, Vol. 17, Page 131-142, Hong Kong * Forbidden love, Article by Priya Basil, The Guardian, September 2010 The Guardian, 11 September 2010 * Interview with Priya Basil by Kerrie Anne, The View From Here, September 2010 View From Here Magazine, 16 September 2010 * A brief encounter with the maternal urge, Article by Priya Basil, The Guardian, July 2011 The Guardian, 2 July 2011 * Merkel must ensure Germany takes a strong moral stand against NSA spying, Article by Priya Basil, The Guardian, September 2013 The Guardian, 16 September 2013 Notes References * http://www.priyabasil.com * http://literaturfestival.com/autoren-en/autoren-2014-en/priya- basil?searchterm=Priy&set;_language=en * http://www.authorsforpeace.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20090708002628/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2009/Longlist.htm * http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprise/2008/shortlists/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20090718111356/http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/downloads.htm * https://archive.is/20120908200014/http://www.quickreads.org.uk/about-the- books/new-books-for-2011/strangers-1602 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/25/fiction.features7 * https://web.archive.org/web/20110719073835/http://www.depers.nl/cultuur/123498/Mijn- achtergrond-kan-inspirerend-zijn.html (Dutch language quotes from Priya Basil) British writers 1977 births Living people "
"marsouin) pointing to guerrilla positions on 13 August 2009 The Groupement tactique interarmes de Kapisa (GTIA Kapisa, "joint tactical group of Kapisa"), also called Task Force Korrigan, is a battalion-sized unit of the French Army, based in Kapisa Province, in Afghanistan. It operates in the framework of the French forces in Afghanistan. Organisation French troops and armor in the Alasai Valley, abril 2009. GTIA Kapisa comprises * a command component * a support component * two armoured infantry sub-groups The support unit provides fire support, engineering, communications, maintenance and medical support. The GTIA Kapisa operates under the Regional Command East headed by US general Curtis Scaparrotti. The other units of the French Army in Afghanistan operate under Regional Command Capital headed by French general Michel Stollsteiner. From 15 June 2009, GTIA Kapisa has been constituted of the 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment (3rd RIMa), complemented with an armoured unit of the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment (1st RIMa), two engineering sections of the 6th Engineer Regiment (6th RG), two mortar sections of the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment (11th RAMa), and a communication group for the 48th RT. This amounts to 650 personnel. The headquarters and one of the combat groups are positioned at Nijrab, while the other combat unit is based in Tagab. On 1 November 2009, command of the GTIA was transferred to the Brigade La Fayette. History The foundation of the GTIA-Kapisa was announced by President Sarkozy on 3 April 2008, during the NATO summit in Bucarest.11/07/2008 - Afghanistan : Évolution du dispositif français, Ministry of Defence, 11 July 2008 = Task Force Chimera, August 2008 to January 2009 = From August 2008 - January 2009, the GTIA-Kapisa was dubbed "Task Force Chimera". It comprised elements of * the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (8e RPIMa) * the 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment (35e RAP) * the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment (17e RGP) 10/07/08 - Afghanistan : Montée en puissance du GTIA Kapisa, Ministry of Defence, 10 July 2008 A company detached from the 8e RPIMa to the BatFra, and sustained casualties, 10 killed & 21 wounded, during the Uzbin Valley ambush on 18 August 2008. Task Force Chimera sustained 15 wounded during its tour besides the 10 killed & 21 wounded, during the Uzbin Valley ambush on 18 August 2008. = Task Force Tiger, January 2009 to 15 June 2009 = From January 2009 to 15 June 2009, the GTIA-Kapisa was dubbed "Task Force Tiger", under Colonel Nicolas Le Nen. It comprised elements of * the 27th Mountain Infantry Battalion (27e BCA) * the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) * the 4th Chasseurs, providing an armoured arm with five AMX-10 RC (4e RCh) * the 93th Mountain Artillery Regiment (93e RAM). One of the most notable operations was the Battle of Alasay, on 14 March 2009. Task Force Tiger sustained one dead (Corporal Nicolas Belda, killed during the Battle of Alasay), and one wounded. = Task Force Korrigan, 15 June 2009 to 15 January 2010 = From 15 June 2009 to 15 January 2010, the GTIA-Kapisa is dubbed "Task Force Korrigan", under colonel Chanson. Afghanistan : un nouveau chef au GTIA Kapisa, Ministry of Defence, 15 June 2009 It comprises * a section of the 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment (3e RIMa) * a section of the 6th Engineer Regiment (6e RG) * two mortar sections from the 11e RAMa * one group of the 48e RT * one armoured platoon of the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment (1e RIMa) In June, the French troops received reinforcements with eight CAESAR self-propelled howitzers. La France va envoyer huit canons Caesar en Afghanistan, Jean- Dominique Merchet, Secret Défense, 29 June 2009 As of the 1 November 2009, Task Force Korrigan had lost 7 killed and 44 wounded. See also * Groupement tactique interarmes de Surobi References Ad hoc units and formations of the French Army "
"In pre-revolutionary France, women had no part in affairs outside the house. Before the revolution and the advent of feminism in France, women's roles in society consisted of providing heirs for their husbands and tending to household duties. Even in the upper classes, women were dismissed as simpletons, unable to understand or give a meaningful contribution to the philosophical or political conversations of the day. However, with the emergence of ideas such as liberté, égalité, and fraternité, the women of France joined their voices to the chaos of the early revolution. This was the beginning of feminism in France. With demonstrations such as Women's March on Versailles, and the Demonstration of 20 June 1792, women displayed their commitment to the Revolution. Both the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and the creation of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women further conveyed their message of women's rights as a necessity to the new order of the revolution. Inequality During Revolution During the revolution, doctors and scientists played a significant role in the way society viewed women. Many doctors hypothesized that women could not partake in politics and other aspects of the government since their physiology and anatomy was so different than the physiology and anatomy of men. Scientists, doctors, and people of related professions stated that those with compacted skulls could not practice or follow the sciences (Nature's Body 7). Women's participation in politics was considered useless since men were to keep their wive's, daughter's, sister's, and loved one's values and needs in mind. Women were thought to have the same beliefs, ideals, and desires for France as the men. Women's March to Versailles The Women's March to Versailles is one example of protofeminist militant activism during the French Revolution. Though the march was overwhelmingly made up of women by all accounts, they did not make explicitly feminist demands. In the years preceding the Revolution, there was a food shortage in France. People all over the country grew agitated and called for a guarantee of food, with insufficient response from the monarchy. In October 1789, women in the market place of Paris began marching to Versailles, spurred on by revolutionists. As they marched, they drew a large gathering, culminating in the siege of the palace and the royal family being transported to the Tuileries Palace. Though the crowd was led by men such as Stanislas-Marie Maillard, the women's call for bread and their persistence to see their demands met, set the tone for the subsequent events led by women in the Revolution. Their resolve is exemplified by an account of a woman participating in the march, the woman Cheret. "The honorable members of the National Assembly, coming to understand that the women were absolutely committed to persist until there was something definite for always, accorded to our twelve deputies." While the march was not an inherently feminist event, the women of the march recalled the victory of "our citizenesses clothed in glory, returned by carriage at his majesty's expense, to the city hall in Paris." The women of the march were remembered by posterity of the French Revolution as "Mothers of the Nation." Demanding arms Pauline Léon, on March 6, 1791, submitted a petition signed by 319 women to the National Assembly requesting permission to form a garde national in order to defend Paris in case of military invasion.Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen W. Hufton pg. 23-24 Léon requested permission be granted to women to arm themselves with pikes, pistols, sabers and rifles, as well as the privilege of drilling under the French Guards. Her request was denied.Rebel Daughters by Sara E Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine pg. 89 Later in 1792, Théroigne de Méricourt made a call for the creation of "legions of amazons" in order to protect the revolution. As part of her call, she claimed that the right to bear arms would transform women into citizens. Participation in demonstrations On October 5, 1789, over eight hundred women overtook the Hotel de Ville. The women burned all of the papers and files that they found since none of the papers and files had any benefit towards their rights as French citizens. They also searched the hotel for arms and ammunition. The women did not find any ammunition. They did, however, find pikes and two cannons. They took the pikes and cannons and were then followed by Lafayette's national guard. The national guard was sent to subdue the protests. On June 20 of 1792, a number of armed women took part in a procession that "passed through the halls of the Legislative Assembly, into the Tuileries Gardens, and then through the King's residence."Rebel Daughters by Sara E Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine pg. 91 Militant women also assumed a special role in the funeral of Jean-Paul Marat, following his murder on July 13, 1793. As part of the funeral procession, they carried the bathtub in which Marat had been murdered as well as a shirt stained with Marat's blood.Women and the Limits of Citizenship by Olwen W. Hufton pg. 31 Later, on May 20, 1795, women were at the fore of a crowd that demanded "bread and the Constitution of 1793."Gender, Society and Politics: France and Women 1789-1914 by James H. McMillan pg. 24 When their protest went unnoticed, the women went on a rampage, "sacking shops, seizing grain and kidnapping officials." Women's Role in Society Although most people in society believed that women should not partake in politics and should stay at home and raise the children, some women did play an important role in politics. This is not focusing on the protests that many women in France were a part of. Those protests shaped the political scene in France during the Revolution. During the French Revolution, women were able to write and publish political journals. The Tribune des femmes and Foi nouvelle: Livre des actes were political journals that were mainly written and published by women. The companies that published these journals had to pay a stamp tax that was only needed when a political journal was being published, therefore, making these two journals political. After the Gazette des femmes was published, the government stepped in and banned women's ability to publish daily political journals specifically. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen While largely ignored in their endeavors to increase the rights of citizens in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution Edited by Sara E Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine pg. 79 Yet, women were "denied political rights of 'active citizenship' (1791) and democratic citizenship (1793)." In 1791, Olympe de Gouges published a vital document of the Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. In it, de Gouges replicated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, but altered the language to reflect the concerns of women's rights within France. She addressed her declaration to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, pleading with her to "work for the restoration of morals, to give to your sex all the credit it is due." While this document did not have extensive social repercussions within France during the time of the Revolution, de Gouges revealed the depths of misogynistic culture by the reaction to her work. Following her publication, she was tried as having "royalist tendencies", further evidenced by her political pamphlets and discovery of her half-written play, La France sauvée ou le tyran détrondé. Though according to de Gouges, the accusation was based on a misunderstanding of her texts as anti-revolutionary, feminist historian Janie Vanpée took the stance that her trial was "not one of holding opinions from the wrong side of the political spectrum, but rather of articulating political opinions at all." De Gouges' execution in 1793, one of only three women to be executed in the Reign of Terror, solidified her appraisal of men within the Revolution as "pretend[ing] to enjoy the Revolution and reclaim his rights to equality only to say nothing more about it." Society of Revolutionary Republican Women The most radical militant feminist activism was practiced by the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women which was founded by Léon and her colleague Claire Lacombe on May 10, 1793.Rebel Daughters by Sara E Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine pg. 92 The goal of the club was "to deliberate on the means of frustrating the projects of the enemies of the Republic." Up to 180 women attended the meetings of the Society.Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism by Lisa Beckstrand pg. 17 Of special interest to the Society was "combating hoarding [of grain and other staples] and inflation."Women and the Limits of Citizenship by Olwen W. Hufton pg. 25 Support Condorcet was a strong advocate for women's rights. He believed that by not allowing women to partake in politics, it would deny them rights that men were entitled to, and it would deny rights to the legislators who vote to fill political positions. The legislators would not be able to vote for a woman to hold a position in the government even if they believed she was fit for the position. According to Condorcet, women were just as capable as men, except when it came to war. He believed that women were not as capable as men in war because of the differences in body structure, physique, and the need to take a leave of absence when their child is born. Reaction Most of these outwardly activist women were punished for their actions. The kind of punishment received during the Revolution included public denouncement, arrest, execution, or exile. Théroigne de Méricourt was arrested, publicly flogged and then spent the rest of her life sentenced to an insane asylum. Pauline Léon and Claire Lacombe were arrested, later released, and continued to receive ridicule and abuse for their activism. Many of the women of the Revolution were even publicly executed for "conspiring against the unity and the indivisibility of the Republic."Deviant Women by Beckstrand pg. 20 Legacy These are but a few examples of the militant protofeminism that was prevalent during the French Revolution. While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French women and protofeminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris. Though French culture during the time of the Revolution was largely misogynistic, leading women such as Madame Roland, Olympe de Gouges, and Charlotte Corday went against the traditional roles of gender and fought the mindset of a woman as passive, uneducated, and politically ignorant. According to author and historian Catherine R. Montfort, "a woman is always a woman biologically, but the ways in which she can be one are constructed by her culture." The effects on women's rights of the French Revolution is debated among historians. For some, the French Revolution eroded women's right by decreasing the role of women in public life due to the repressive measures that were brought into place by the Jacobins. However, for others, the change in psyche that allowed women to establish a gender-based consciousness and the reforms to marriage, divorce and property rendered a significant and ground breaking change to feminist identities and the future of the feminist movement. References French Revolution Feminism and history "