[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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