Documentary: Hew McLeod: A Kiwi Sikh Historian
The documentary, Hew McLeod: A Kiwi Sikh Historian, tells the story of a New Zealander who has spent a lifetime researching the Sikhs.
The documentary, which is being produced by Asia Downunder, is illustrated with archive footage, photographs and the religious art of the Sikhs and includes interviews with family, academics and New Zealand Sikhs.
Rabba Hun Kee Kariye – review and next screening
Please find attached a recent review of the partition documentary Rabba Hun Kee Kariye in the Mail Today ( 25th March) by Ajay Bhardwaj. mail-today
Also the next screening of Rabba… is at Peace and Global Justice Day – Marian College, Indianapolis
April 7 — Marian College Peace & Global Justice Day
Sessions discuss capital punishment, racism, forms of interfaith activism; watch a film about mass murder in Punjab
When: Tuesday April 7, all day
Where: Marian College Allison Mansion
“Rabba Hun Kee Kariye” will show at 3:00:
Rabba Hun Kee Kariye (Thus Departed our Neighbors) tracks a shared history of Punjab – a sub-continental culture, language and a way of life – that was torn asunder in the fateful year of 1947. It captures the documentary filmmaker’s unexpected encounter with feelings of guilt and remorse about the genocidal violence of the partition. These informal tales, almost like folklore, are strewn across the memory-scape of Punjabi countryside. This documentary invokes it in the public domain for the first time.
http://www.marian.edu/PeaceAndJustice/Pages/default.aspx
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Screening of ‘Rabba Hun Ki Kariye’
In their ‘Nashisht’ Series
Impresario Asia invites you to the screening of a documentary on the partition memories
RABBA HUN KI KARIYE (THUS DEPARTED OUR NEIGHBOURS)
A film by Ajay Bhardwaj
The screening will be followed by an interactive session with the director
DATE: Wednesday 25th March 2009
TIME: 7.00 p.m.
VENUE: Gulmohar, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
R.S.V.P.
Pramilla Chhabra K.K. Kohli
2462-1685 98107-23979
COURTESY: DELHI DIARY
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Musafer – Sikhi is Travelling – A Documentary
A film by Michael Nijhawan & Khushwant Singh Edited by Celeste Diamos
Musafer is a digital, 4:3 format independent documentary film that has been shot in Frankfurt, Paris, London and San Francisco between 2003 and 2008. The film portrays the interconnected life of a younger generation of diasporic Sikhs by giving emphasis to their artistic expressions and in-depth conversations about the meaning of Sikhi in times of political upheaval and social uncertainty. Musafer does not attempt to portray the Sikh tradition in its multifaceted forms, but instead sheds a light on the inner and outer journeys of particular individuals, their homing desires, as well as their boundary crossing endeavors
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Books not Bombs – The New York Times
Do have a look at this short 6 minute video. It offers an alternative to bombs and perhaps more hope for the future.
Opinion by Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Times
Books Not Bombs
While the U.S. government is fighting Islamic extremism in Pakistan with bombs, private donations are quietly financing a more important campaign: education.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/22/opinion/1194833601777/books-not-bombs.html
Review of film Rabba
Here is a review of Rabba..in Frontline. Hope you enjoy it.
ON a balmy afternoon under the monsoon sky in Atalahn village in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, four elderly men sitting under a banyan tree are animatedly discussing Urdu. “A beautiful language, with nuances neither Hindi nor Punjabi can equal,” says one. “It’s our language, forged from Arabic and Punjabi,” says another.
The third one remembers how, when Partition was announced, “all of us in Class III, studying lesson number 14 in Urdu, threw our Qua’ida in the air and said, ‘Urdu ud gaya, Urdu ud gaya’ [Urdu has flown away].” The fourth friend ruminates: “We used to think Urdu belonged to Muslims; nobody knew it was a language.” Sixty years on, the partition of India continues to cast a shadow on the subcontinent, shaping individual destinies and cultural lives in unforeseen ways – constantly provoking new explorations to unravel its many dimensions. How does a society or a generation culturally come to terms with having lived through a moral vacuum at a time of genocidal violence?
The link is:
http://flonnet.com/stories/20081121252309300.htm
or PDF: partition-documentary
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