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by admin on Mar 11, 2013 • No Comments

Media & Asian Globalization: China and India, 1977- Present Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY Friday, March 29, 2013 2:15 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks (Zhen Zhang & Arvind Rajagopal) 2:30 PM Screening of documentary, New (Improved) Delhi (6 minutes) and Ayodhya Gatha (62 minutes) both by...

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The Conference

by admin on Jan 14, 2013 • No Comments

The extraordinary growth of China and India over the past three decades, involving the two most populous countries in the world, has set in motion a process of social change that, in its scale and speed, is without parallel in recorded history. Breaking away, or so it might seem, from...

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Screening of AYODHYA GATHA by Vani Subramanian, March 29th at 2:40pm

by Carlisa on Mar 18, 2013 • No Comments

Ayodhya. A site of conflict and contestation, a symbol of communal aspirations and divide. For more than two decades now, events in this small town have determined the fate of the nation. But what have they, in turn,...

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Screening of NEW (Improved) DELHI by Vani Subramanian, March 29th at 2:30pm

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By the turn of the Century, New Delhi’s aspirations have gone global. Amid increasing superhighways, hyper malls, metro rails and the suburban syndrome, the emerging metropolis has no space for the embarrassment of the poor and their slums,...

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Screening of Du Haibin’s UMBRELLA, March 29th at 4:00pm

by admin on Mar 14, 2013 • No Comments

Filmed in five different regions of China, UMBRELLA provides a telling look at the vast changes that have taken place in Chinese society, including a massive migration from the countryside to the cities, the rise of a prosperous...