J-42, SOUTH EXTENSION-1, NEW DELHI-110049
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A SCREENING OF A UNIQUE FILM
MARICH JHAPI, 1978-79: TORTURED HUMANITY
A documentary film that exposes official India's cruelest secret
(1 hour, 5 minutes; English)
In one of the least known instances of State persecution of backward communities and displaced population groups in post-Independence India, the Left Front government of West Bengal in 1978-79 massacred unknown hundreds of refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan after promising them an alternate homeland. This gargantuan crime against humanity was done away from media glare, yet word of it got out and has found a place in Bengal's oral tradition as the Marich Jhapi massacre. Though scholars and writers like Ross Mallick, Udayan Namboodiri, Annu Jalais and Amitav Ghosh have highlighted it in their works, no film maker had dared to come forward to document this tragedy. Now, Kolkata-based film maker, Tushar Bhattacharjee, has unraveled for the first time the machinations and brutality that preceded the Marich Jhapi massacre by catching up with relatives of the victims, survivors and even the perpetrators.
Venue: Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 4 p.m.
The screening will be followed by an Open House discussion moderated by Mr Sumit Chakravorty, editor, Mainstream weekly. Mr Tushar Bhattacharjee, the film's producer, will present a brief outline of his project, and Mr Udayan Namboodiri, author, Bengal's Night Without End (New Delhi, 2006), will place the incident in historical perspective.
As this is the first ever national exposition of the Marich Jhapi massacre, we hope you would attend along with your friends and colleagues.
Ravi Himadri
The Other Media
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