with filmmaker Meghnath Bhattacharjee.
Date: Friday, March 4
Time: 3-5 PM
Place: 710 Social Sciences
Background:
Maghnath has been documenting the cultural and political events within
tribal communities in central India. Dance and music performances by
tribal minorities in India, in association with their social and
political movements are central to the filmography of Meghnath.Meghnath is coming to here to interview people who worked with Dr. Ram Dayal Munda when he taught in the Dept. of South Asian Studies. R. D. Munda became an important and charismatic leader in the cultural arts and politics of tribal minorities in central India when he gave up his tenured post at U of MN to head a Dept. of Tribal and Regional Languages in the Bihar state University system (at Ranchi).
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