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CWS organises a Film Screening and Discussion with the director Farah Naqvi

CWS organises a Film Screening and Discussion with the director Farah Naqvi

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CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES, JNU

 

Invites you to a Film Screening and Discussion with the director

 

Farah Naqvi (Feminist, Writer and Activist)

 

Violent displacement, and hope amid despair – rebuilding lives in Muzaffarnagar, India

 

THE COLOUR OF

MY HOME

ये मेरा घर

 

a film by Farah Naqvi and Sanjay Barnela

Duration : 48 minutes

 

 

Executive Producers: Madhavi Kuckreja, Geetha Narayanan, Sandeep Virmani

© 2017. Sadbhavna Trust, Hunnarshala Foundation, Srishti Films – Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology

About the Film:-

What happens to people when they are violently displaced? Buffeted by winds of hate and forced out of their homes and ancestral villages. Scattered like human debris in relief camps; never able to return. How do they rebuild a new home and a new life, with hearts unable to erase the memories of all that has been left behind?

The film is set in a town in north India, where targeted violence in 2013 forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes in fear. Many could never return. The Colour of My Home is about rebuilding broken lives.

 

 

Date: 30th October 2018; Time: 3.30 PM

Venue: CHS, Committee Room No. 326, Third Floor, SSS-III

 

 

ALL ARE WELCOME 

 

 

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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