An illustrated lecture on the life and times of Sangita Kalanidhi Bharat Ratna M. S. Subbulakshmi to celebrate her birth centenary year. MS was the most popular and most loved face of Carnatic music in the 21st century. Using rarely seen archival photographs, audio and video recordings, the lecture takes a nostalgic journey through her life and times. 

 

Speaker: Veejay Sai, Delhi based award-winning writer, editor and a culture critic who writes extensively on performing and visual arts, cultural history, food and philosophy 

 

 

 

Directed by Tapan Bose who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film is a passionate appeal for justice for the Adivasi, the tribal peoples of India, cheated, dispossessed, pauperised and criminalized in their forest homes, made to pay the price for extractive development that first stripped their forests for timber and now for gold, bauxite, iron ore and chrome. Using rare archival footage and interviews with the legendary anthropologist, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and Adivasi activists from the 80s and 90s, the film spans the continuing struggle of the Adivasis for their right to life and dignity