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<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,0)">the atrocity of caste | a tradition of reason | a song that will be sung</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">Introduced by Anand Patwardhan</span></i></p><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </span><br>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">Saturday, March 2, 2013</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">2-6 pm MIT 32- 155</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"></span></p><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">MIT History Department</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">Ambedkar International Center (Boston)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia</span></p>
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</span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">In 1997, a statue of Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire, killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hanged himself in protest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Jai Bhim Comrade, shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of a subaltern tradition of reason that has fought superstition and religious bigotry with poetry and art since the days of the Buddha.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">Many artists featured in the film are underground to evade arrest. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">For more info visit </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="http://visitwww.kabirkalamanch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(40,98,197)">www.kabirkalamanch.wordpress.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br>
<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)">Anand Patwardhan has been making investigative documentaries in India for over four decades. His films have faced state censorship and the wrath of religious fundamentalists.</span></p>
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