Film Screening and Discussion: "Jai Bhim Comrade!"

On Wednesday, 20 June 2012, filmmaker Anand Patwardhan was in Göttingen and showed his award-winning new film, 'Jai Bhim Comrade!' This important new film explores cultures of dissent among India’s Dalits. The film, representing over a decade of sustained fieldwork, follows the music of protest in Maharashtra, home to thriving communities of anti-caste activists and political movements. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a rationalist tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.