<div class=NormalWeb4 style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 7.5pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; COLOR: #9b3300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #9b3300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman">i</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman">nvites you to the screening of the feature film <I>Naseem</I> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">to remember and to mark the 15th Anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family:
Times-Roman"> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The film will be introduced by Arpita Banerjee who will also recite a poem on the occasion.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: fuchsia; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: TTE19CE800t00; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">Saturday, December 8, 2007<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt;
TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: TTE19CE800t00; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">2:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: TTE19CE800t00; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">MIT Building: </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">32-141</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div> <div class=NormalWeb4
style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 7.5pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-outline-level: 2" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 30pt; COLOR: #3366ff; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; LETTER-SPACING: -0.75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Naseem<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-outline-level: 2" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #3366ff; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; LETTER-SPACING: -0.75pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">(m</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #3366ff; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">orning breeze)</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 98%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; LETTER-SPACING: -0.75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div> <div class=Heading52 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -48pt; TEXT-INDENT: 48pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=Heading52 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -48pt; TEXT-INDENT: 48pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG><FONT size=3>followed by a discussion<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></I></div> <div class=NormalWeb4 style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 7.5pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"><STRONG>Directed by: </STRONG><A href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0592595/" target=_pop><SPAN class=Hyperlink1><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><STRONG>Saeed Akhtar Mirza</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=NormalWeb4 style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 7.5pt 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">This 1hr 25min film narrates a story of a young Muslim girl (Naseem) and her grandfather </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">in the backdrop of rising communal tensions in India at the time of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid demolition.</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Naseem and her family went through the tumults of grave communal strife and through her eyes the film deftly
underlines the politics of fear and intolerance in India. </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> Such identity politics demonizes and alienates minority communities in the attempt to instigate a strident <I>Hindu</I> identity. It justifies the treatment of other religious minorities as <I>guests</I>, who must accommodate themselves in accordance with the culture of the host society – it is “our country, love it or leave it.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Contact: </FONT><A href="mailto:notices@alliancesouthasia.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>notices@alliancesouthasia.org</FONT></A></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Free and open to the public</SPAN></div><BR>