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9/6: Lifting the Veil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Wed Sep 5 22:00:51 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
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DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING OF
"LIFTING THE VEIL" BY
SHONALI BOSE
A film that examines the role of neoliberal policies on India's
economy through interviews with business leaders, economists, striking
mill workers, laborers, and others. (Full description below)
WHEN: THURS, 6. SEPT
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: MIT, 4-370
Sponsored By: South Asian Center, AID-Boston, SANGAM, Alliance for a
Secular and Democratic South Asia, BankBusters, and the Social Justice
Cooperative
For more info, contact Payal Parekh at parekh@pimms.mit.edu, 253-7967
Full Film Description:
LIFTING THE VEIL: A Synopsis
A powerful and compelling new documentary set in contemporary
India in the historical context of worldwide policies of
liberalization, privatization and globalization. Workers, politicians,
students,teachers, housewives, politicians and industrialists speak
forcefully on what impact these measures have had on them - giving a
panoramic view of Indian society at the crossroads of the 21st
century. The central question which has global relevance echoes again
and again: who creates wealth? for whom? how can the vast majority of
people effect the direction of the economy?
The raw energy and dynamism of the film arises from the passionate and
vigorous views of ordinary people who are never taken into confidence
with respect to decisions which effect their lives and who are
considered illiterate, ignorant and incapable of thinking. At the other
extreme such important figures as the finance minister and top
industrialists hold forth on these reforms. Through the juxtaposition
of these views and stark footage on the material conditions of life for
the majority Lifting the Veil reveals the reality of the new India and
its connections with the old In the final analysis it is a film about
empowerment; about the majority of people taking their rightful place
at the center stage of society.
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Payal Parekh
MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
Program in Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate
parekh@pimms.mit.edu
MIT WHOI
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