Journeys to Democracy

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• Three films and a play: Boston area events plus my notes on recent Sapan News features

                         
  29 September, by beenasarwar
  Four Boston-area events from the latest Sapan Alliance newsletter, including film screenings by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan in Cambridge MA TODAY and tomorrow. Plus my documentary at Tufts on Wednesday, and the musical play 'Madho' at Wellesley next weekend. Plus my (...)

• A South Asia theatre festival in Boston

         
  22 September, by beenasarwar
  Off-Kendrik started over 16 years ago, “committed to building a broad platform for South Asian theatre groups and the next generation of South Asian Americans through theatre and storytelling”.

• Local votes to regional destiny? The future of democracy in South Asia

      
  28 July, by beenasarwar
  My article with Dr Serena Hussain and Vishal Sharma published on Sapan News a couple of weeks ago. So relevant especially given a recent article in an influential foreign policy magazine debunking the idea of Southasia

• Farewell Karamat Ali: A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes

       
  6 July, by beenasarwar
  Karamat Ali was many things but for me he was always the person who returned my grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the home he was born in. The relationship between him and my grandfather defies labels but it has a bond that is deep and unbreakable, stronger than many relationships with (...)

• What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky

         
  21 June, by beenasarwar
  As news of Noam Chomsky's failing health makes the rounds, I share some learnings from my interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world

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