<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="font-size:10px">About the film:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For thousands of years, India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables" and denied education. By 1923, Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India's Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In 1997, a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><em>Jai Bhim Comrade</em>, shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that has, from the days of the Buddha, fought superstition and religious bigotry.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px"><strong style="font-size:10px"> </strong><span style="font-size:10px">October 5, 2012 4:00 pm - October 5, 2012 6:30 pm</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px"><strong>Venue:</strong></p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px">Harvard University, <span style="font-size:10px">Northwest Building, B103</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px">
Address: 52 Oxford Street,Cambridge, ma, 02138,United States</p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px"> </p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-size:10px"><strong style="font-size:10px">About the filmmaker:</strong><span style="font-size:10px"> </span></p>
<p></p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Anand Patwardhan has been making investigative documentaries in India for over four decades. His films have often faced State censorship and the wrath of religious fundamentalists.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a target="_blank" href="http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/screening-jai-bhim-comrade-and-discussion-anand-patwardhan" style="color:rgb(104,129,78);font-weight:bold">Click here to read more about the film and filmmaker.</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>Thursday SCREENING AT BRANDEIS </strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><em> Oct 4 – Jai Bheem Comrade Screening at Brandeis </em><strong><em> <br>
<br></em></strong></p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">7:00pm Shapiro Campus Center Theater</p>