FRIENDS OF SOUTH ASIA
presents...
 Traveling
Film
South Asia 2004
A
festival of 19 compelling documentary films from Bangladesh, India,
Nepal, and Pakistan.
March
12 - 21
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-821-1155
March 26 - 28
India Community Center
555 Los Coches Street
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-934-1130
For
further information, please visit http://ektaonline.org/tfsa
more info on this event...
FRIENDS OF SOUTH ASIA (FOSA)
welcomes
you to
Secularism & Democracy in
India:
The Challenges Ahead
An
Interactive Discussion
with
Dr.
Asghar Ali Engineer
and
Dr.
Angana Chatterji
Santa Clara Marriott
2700 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Saturday, Jan
24 2004
12:30 - 4:30 PM
12:30 - 1:30 - Reception & Lunch
1:30 - 4:30 - Discussion & Q&A
Tickets are $10 per person and can be
purchased at the door.
Free Baby sitting.
Phone: (408) 219 1433
(www.friendsofsouthasia.org)
Co-Sponsored
by:
Coalition against Communalism (CAC)
Friends of South Asia (FOSA)
South Asian Progressive Action Collective (SAPAC)
Non-Resident Indians for a Secular and Harmonious India (NRI-SAHI)
Indian Muslim Council (IMC)
Indian Muslim Relief Committee (IMRC)
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Joint Celebrations of India and Pakistan's 57th
Independence Day
Midnight Emancipation
A Midnight
Candlelight Vigil
Celebrating 56 years of
South Asian independence
Lytton Plaza
(Downtown Palo Alto)
220 University Ave., Palo Alto CA. 94301
11:30 pm, August 14 to
00:30 am, August 15
A midnight candelight
vigil, the attendees will consist of South Asians and others who
cherish freedom and want to live in peace. The vigil will feature
poetry readings, songs, music and fun under the twilight. So bring
along your favorite poetry or musical instrument, and join us in this
celebration!
(www.friendsofsouthasia.org)
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Human
Rights, Political Will
and the
Nuclear Shadow
Sunday, August 17th,
5.30pm
Assembly
Room, Bechtel International Center,
Stanford University
(click for directions)
featuring
a screening of the
documentary film
Pakistan
and India: Under the Nuclear Shadow
and
talks by
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Dr.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of Physics
Quaid-i-Azam University
Islamabad, Pakistan |
Dr.
Angana Chatterji
Professor, Cultural and Social
Anthropology Program
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, California. |
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A retrospective on the 56 years of South Asian independence, a look at
the deteriorating human rights situation, the fallouts of nuclear
armament in the region, and the rise of fundamentalist forces, and
political will (or lack thereof) for conflict resolution. Also, a look
at causes for hope - the growth of grassroots level movements, the
increasing demands for peace and resolution from people on both sides
of the border. Featuring Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, a leading proponent of
nuclear disarmament and an activist writer/speaker on education issues
in Pakistan, and Dr. Angana Chatterji, who has been working with
post-colonial social movements in India and internationally, towards
enabling participatory democracy, and social and ecological justice.
The event is free and open to all.
Seating is limited, please arrive early to ensure good
seats. Refreshments will be served.
more info on this event...
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Our Kashmir
A Talk by
Ved Bhasin
President of Jammu
Peace Committee
Founder Editor, Kashmir Times
Stanford
University
Gates Computer Science Building, Room 104
Friday,
August 1, 2003 7 pm
Berkeley
200
Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday,
August 2, 2003 4:30 pm
Organized by
Friends of South Asia
together
with
Nautilus Institute,
Berkeley
FREE event; Seats
first-come-first-served;Arrive early to get good seats.
more info on this event...
A Seminar On
Human Rights in South
Asia:
Persecution of the
Ahmadiyya Community
in Pakistan
June
22, 5 p.m.
Milpitas
Library Community Hall
Details about this event...
With
Cultural And Social Anthropology (CASA)
Stanford University
War & Peace
a film by
Anand Patwardhan
Saturday,
April 26, 2003. 6 pm
Stanford University
Annenburg Auditorium
(directions)
FREE screening; Seats first-come-first-served;Arrive early to get good
seats.
more info on this event...
Karvaan
a film by
Pankaj Butalia
Saturday,
March 29, 2003. 6 to 8.30 pm
Stanford University
Gates Computer Science Building, Room 104
This event is
open to all.. donations are optional.
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South Asian
Literary Evening:
Twelve
South Asian writers, poets, and songwriters entertained their audience
with work in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English at a first-of-its-kind
event on Saturday, February 22, in Room 104 of the Gates Building at
Stanford...Read more about this event.
The Men
in The Tree
A new documentary
film by Lalit Vachani
Co-sponsored with
Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology and Dept. of Religious
Studies, Stanford U.;
Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology, California Institute of
Integral Studies
In early 1993, Lalit
Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team completed a documentary film, The
Boy in the Branch, for Channel 4 Television, U.K. Set at the
headquarters of the RSS in Nagpur, the film was about the
indoctrination of young Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, the foremost
Hindu fundamentalist organization in India. Eight years later, Vachani
returned to Nagpur to meet the characters from his earlier film..
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Aik Thee Nani
(A Granny for AII Seasons)
Video of Urdu/Hindi play followed by
Q&A with Pakistani Playwright
Shahid Nadeem
Oct 12th, Saturday, 5PM
Stanford University, Main Quad,
Building 300, Room 300
more info on the play
 Theatre
Without
Frontiers
Video clips and discussion with
Pakistani Playwright
Shahid Nadeem
Oct
13th, Sunday, 3-6 PM
UC Berkeley Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Room 2040 directions
Co-sponsored
by EKTA, AHIMSA, and 3rd I
Shahid discussed the challenges and risks of running a theatre, which
refuses to accept censorship by the State or the militants and about
his experiences of taking his plays to India and Bangladesh. He will
also refer to his work for Pakistan television and Zee News.
Shahid and his theatre
group have been in the forefront of the movement to develop peoples to
people links between peoples of Pakistan and India. He has spoken
publicly and defiantly against Pakistani Establishment's lack of
interest in promoting peaceful settlement of disputes with India. His
group is the only theatre group, which has traveled to and performed in
India, and also invited Indian Theatre experts and activists to
Pakistan.
more about Shahid Nadeem and Ajoka
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