Film Screening and Discussion Jai Bhim Comrade

The Program on Human Rights at CDDRL and the Center for South Asia  are honored to host Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan for this special film screening and discussion as part of the Collaboratory project.

Anand Patwardhan's new film "Jai Bhim Comrade" took 14 years to complete. Beginning with an incident at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai where 10 Dalits were shot dead by the police in 1997, the film goes on to explore the music of protest of those who were treated as "untouchables" by a caste hierarchy that has ruled the Indian sub-continent for thousands of years.