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Behn cervantes biography of mahatma


A collection of in-depth interviews with artists from all walks of life.

  • A collection of in-depth interviews with artists from all walks of life.
  • The M.A. Programme in ENGLISH of Mahatma Gandhi University, Purba Medinipur-721628,.
  • Life of Mira Behn, a close follower of Mahatma Gandhi and an early environmentalist, who spent the last years of her life near Vienna, Austria.
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  • The Indian English author predominantly highlights fundamental issues of post colonialism, multiculturalism, indigenization and nativism, around him in India.

    • Life of Mira Behn, a close follower of Mahatma Gandhi and an early environmentalist, who spent the last years of her life near Vienna, Austria..

    Behn Cervantes

    Filipino artist and activist (1938–2013)

    In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Holcombe and the surname or paternal family name is Cervantes.

    Benjamín Roberto "Behn" Holcombe Cervantes (August 25, 1938 – August 13, 2013) was a Filipino artist and activist.

    He was highly regarded as a theater pioneer, teacher, and progressive thinker who was detained multiple times during martial law in the Philippines.[1]

    He directed the film Sakada (1976), about the struggle of Negrense peasants at a sugarcane plantation.

    Copies of the film were seized by the military under the Marcos dictatorship.[2] Musical scorer Lutgardo Labad described the film as "a major cinematic coup that unearthed the inhuman conditions of our people then."[3] In 1981, the film won a Dekada Award for Best Film of the Decade.[4]

    At the University of the Philippines (UP), he founded the theater group UP Repertory Com