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DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia and the
  Ambedkar King Study Circle. \n\nSynopsis\nUniversities are institutions o
 f education and intellectual growth where young minds are nurtured in an a
 tmosphere of intellectual freedom and debate. But many well known universi
 ties in India in the last few years have been subjected to thought control
 \, restrictions and social discrimination by the administration and the go
 vernment. Unfortunately\, much of this discrimination is meted out to stud
 ents and staff belonging to India's marginalized communities\, women\, and
  those with liberal and left ideology - identities that the current ruling
  party and its ideologues have traditionally loathed and often suppressed.
  Persons with a particular ideology have been appointed as heads of most i
 nstitutions to curtail academic freedom while funding and scholarships are
  cut down for deserving candidates.\n\nBut the students are not taking suc
 h fascism silently. They are protesting against the closing down of democr
 atic spaces and the muzzling of voices in many universities. The prejudice
  against students of certain 'low caste' had been so drastic that a few st
 udents such as Rohit Vemula (Hyderabad) even committed suicide\, giving ri
 se to a further heat in the students' protest in many more institutions. U
 nfortunately\, much of India's mainstream media\, kowtowing the ruling par
 ty's line\, has run campaigns to malign the protesting students. While the
  students' unrest continues in many cities\, this film travels to some sev
 en Indian universities (including Jawaharlal Nehru University\, Hyderabad 
 Central University and Banaras Hindu University among others) to record wh
 at the students and some teachers have to say about how their freedom is b
 eing curtailed\, and how this movement will not die until they bring some 
 change of perception about the rights of the underprivileged. The film als
 o explores a general decline in the production of knowledge in Indian univ
 ersities\, as enumerated by eminent scholars such as Romilla Thapar\, Irfa
 n Habib\, Vivek Kumar and Ashok Vajpeyi\, among others. Learn more\n\nAbou
 t the filmmaker\nYousuf Saeed is an independent filmmaker\, author and arc
 hivist based in New Delhi\, India\, producing documentary films and writin
 gs on South Asia’s shared culture and arts since 1990. His most prominen
 t films—Inside Ladakh\, Basant\, A Life in Science-Yashpal\, and the Tra
 in to Heaven—have been shown at numerous film festivals\, academic venue
 s and on TV channels. Yousuf also worked for Encyclopedia Britannica (Indi
 a) as the Arts Editor. He has been a Sarai Fellow (in 2004)\, the Asia Fel
 low (in 2005–06) and the Margaret Beveridge Senior Research Fellow (at J
 .B.Media Resource Centre\, Jamia Millia\, New Delhi\, in 2009). Saeed's fe
 ature length documentary film Khayal Darpan (2006) about the state of clas
 sical music in Pakistan has been shown at numerous international film fest
 ivals. He is the co-founder and project director of TasveerGhar.net\, a di
 gital archive of India’s popular visual art. Saeed wrote and published a
 n illustrated book Muslim Devotional Art in India (Routledge\, 2012/2019) 
 that explores the history of Islamic poster art in India. Yousuf regularly
  makes lecturing tours in India and abroad. Through much of his recent wor
 k\, he tries to document and present the pluralistic and shared cultural t
 raditions\, music and arts in India. He continues to work on several new d
 ocumentary films as well as writing projects. Learn more\n\nThe screening 
 will be followed by Q&A with Director Yousuf Saeed.
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LOCATION:Encina Commons\, 123
SUMMARY:Documentary Film Screening| Campus Rising (2017) with Yousuf Saeed
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/documentary-film-screening-
 campus-rising-2017-with-yousuf-saeed
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