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Documentary Film Screening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Tue Sep 11 16:20:15 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
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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: WED, 12. SEPT
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave.
Lucy Parsons Center screening sponsored by Lucy Parsons Center and South
Asian Center. Contact Lucy Parsons Center at 617.267.6272 for more info.
Lucy Parsons is located at 549 Columbus Ave- Orange Line -Mass Ave Stop
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.
