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Wed, Nov 20, 2013 from 02:30pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Without Borders Deepak Rauniyar, Filmaker Asha Magrati, Actress Screening: 2:30-4:00 pm. Talk: 4:00-5:30 pm This event is followed by a reception. Cosponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqDfJTCvQo
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Thu, Oct 24, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
South Asia Institute Film Event Doria Bramante, Film Producer, Advisory Board member, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Narad M. Adhikari, Human rights activist, Board member, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Suraj Budathoki, Founder and Coordinator, International Campaign for Human Rights in Bhutan Chair: Kevin Caffrey, Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social […]
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Thu, Jun 27, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm
Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers who were separated during childhood and who grew up in three separate homes, adopting different religions. The film was directed by Manmohan Desai and features Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and Rishi Kapoor. Amar Akbar Anthony was the biggest blockbuster of 1977 and won several […]
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Thu, Jul 25, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm
Ontorjatra (‘The Inner Journey’) is a 2006 Bangla film exploring complex issues of identity and dislocation in a diaspora world. A divorced mother and her son return to Bangladesh after 15 years in London after the ex-husband’s sudden death and funeral. The story follows the transforming experience of the mother and son as they come […]
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Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 07:00pm
Directed by Marc Forster, United States Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, […]
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Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:30pm
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a based on a Bengali novel by Bimal Mitra, providing a glimpse into the fall of feudalism in Bengal during the era of the British Raj. The film explores a platonic relationship between the lonely and beautiful wife of an aristocrat and a hard-working, part-time servant. The film has been […]
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Thu, Aug 1, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm
Dor (“String”), a 2006 Indian film, is a story about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together. Meera, a young woman who becomes a widow shortly after marriage, is trapped by tradition. Zeenat faces the daunting task of saving the life of her husband, who is on trial for murder. […]
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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 from 05:30pm — 08:30pm
DAIRA (“Circle”) is a 2002 Pakistani movie based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, DAIRA is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled.” It is a story of the vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and […]
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Tue, Nov 15, 2011 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm
India by Song, a film by Vijay Singh A Special Film Screening Event Vijay Singh, Film Director Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Harvard University
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Thu, Oct 25, 2012 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – special opening event. Internationally-acclaimed screenwriter and photographer Sooni Taraporevala will discuss her work with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. From October […]
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Fri, Sep 7, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm
RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1955 Raj Kapoor stars as country bumpkin Raju, who arrives in the big city to make his fortune and woos honest schoolteacher Vidya (Nargis) while secretly getting deeper and deeper into the urban underworld.
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Wed, Apr 11, 2012 from 08:00am — 05:00pm
Film Event, Followed by Discussion Carol Black, Director Moderator, Matthew Jukes, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Civic & Moral Education Initiative
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