[Reader-list] Screening: 'Swapnabhumi' film by Tanvir Mokammel at SAA

Iram Ghufran iram at sarai.net
Sun Oct 12 22:27:49 IST 2008


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School of Arts and Aesthetics

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Presents

Tanvir Mokammel

With his Film

Swapnabhumi

(The Promised Land)

A Documentary on the Urdu-speaking community of Bangladesh - also known 
as "stranded Pakistanis" or "Biharis" - who live in a situation of 
"statelessness" in Bangladesh. The film goes back to the painful 
partition of India in 1947 and the ensuing mass migration of peoples.

At the SAA Auditorium

Wednesday, 15th October

at 4.30 p.m

A Discussion with the Director chaired by Professor Tanika Sarkar will 
follow the Screening




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