Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn (35 min; dvd; English)

Directed by Rafeeq Ellias who will introduce the film

 

A Knock at Midnight  - More than 50 years ago the lives of thousands of Chinese living in India changed when they were taken from their homes in the Darjeeling and Assam areas to an internment camp in Deoli, Rajasthan. The film explores in gripping vignettes how some ex-internees have lived with the experience

 

The Deoliwallahs – The Last Generation of Survivors of the Chinese Internment Camp in Deoli

Panelists: Michael Cheng was six years old when he was interned. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his family; Joy Ma is a writer and attended Delhi University. Born in Deoli, she is working on a book about her family’s journey in India; Yin Marsh was 13 when she went to Deoli. She is the author of Doing Time with Nehru; and Steven Wan who was a teenager when he was interned with his family. He lives in Toronto, Canada

 

Chair: Dilip D’Souza, Mumbai-based writer and journalist