[Reader-list] Invoking Justice: Film Screening by Deepa Dhanraj

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a screening of





Deepa Dhanraj’s film* Invoking Justice*
*(Followed by Question & Answer session)*

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*Smita Jassal *will Chair

Friday, 30 August 2013, 3 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





Fed up with male dominated Jamaats (Councils), where they cannot represent
themselves, Muslim women in South India set up their own council in 2004.
The Women’s Jamaat guides, arbitrates and decides on matters related to
family law. The film *Invoking Justice* tells the complex story of the
inspired challenge posed by the Women’s Jamaat to a corrupt judicial
system. The film follows Jamaat members as they investigate cases and
negotiate with families, male jamaats and the police with skill, tenacity
and the courage of convictions grounded equally in faith and in a secular
idea of justice.



*Deepa Dhanraj*

is a writer, director, and producer living in Bangalore, South India. She
studied English Literature in Madras University. She has produced and
directed numerous award-winning documentaries, ‘Something like a War’; ‘The
Legacy of Malthus’; ‘Sudesha’; ‘Nari Adalat’ and ‘What Has Happened to This
City?’.The films have been screened on ARTE, CBC, and SBS. Her films have
been invited to festivals such as IDFA, Berlinale, Leipzig, Oberhausen, and
Films de Femmes, Creteil France, Tampere, Vancouver and Chicago. She has a
special interest in education and has created special video materials to
address challenges faced by first generation learners.

Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
Fax: 91-11-23943450
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