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From: Rajesh Ramakrishnan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:39:34 +0530
Subject: Delhi 20 Nov: Documentary Film Screening: TORTURED HUMANITY
Friends,
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A SCREENING OF A UNIQUE FILM
MARICH JHAPI, 1978-79: TORTURED HUMANITY
A documentary film that exposes official India’s cruelest
secret
(1 hour, 5 minutes; English)
In one of the least known instances of State persecution of backward
communities and displaced population groups in post-Independence India, the
Left Front government of West Bengal in 1978-79 massacred unknown hundreds
of refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan after promising them an
alternate homeland. This gargantuan crime against humanity was done away
from media glare, yet word of it got out and has found a place in Bengal’s
oral tradition as the Marich Jhapi massacre. Though scholars and writers
like Ross Mallick, Udayan Namboodiri, Annu Jalais and Amitav Ghosh have
highlighted it in their works, no film maker had dared to come forward to
document this tragedy. Now, Kolkata-based film maker, Tushar Bhattacharjee,
has unraveled for the first time the machinations and brutality that
preceded the Marich Jhapi massacre by catching up with relatives of the
victims, survivors and even the perpetrators.
Venue: Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road, New
Delhi-110003
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 4 p.m.
The screening will be followed by an Open House discussion moderated by Mr
Sumit Chakravorty, editor, *Mainstream* weekly. Mr Tushar Bhattacharjee, the
film’s producer, will present a brief outline of his project, and Mr Udayan
Namboodiri, author, *Bengal's Night Without End *(New Delhi, 2006), will
place the incident in historical perspective.
As this is the first ever national exposition of the Marich Jhapi massacre,
we hope you would attend along with your friends and colleagues.
Organized by:
The Other Media
J-42, SOUTH EXTENSION, Part - I,
SECOND FLOOR,
NEW DELHI - 110 049.
Tel: 91 11 24629372, 73, 76
Fax: 91 11 24629371
Contact: Ravi Hemadri (9871415186), Bipin Kumar (9868280198)
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