Center for the Advanced Study of India

May 2008
Career Opportunity at CASI: Online Editor
Position and Application Details

12.03-05.2008
2008 Conference on Dalit Agendas: Emancipation, Citizenship, and Empowerment
Conference Site

The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series "Judicial Overreach or Oversight?" [Video]
Justice Ruma Pal

The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distiguished Lecture Series "Reforming the Indian Banking System - Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done" [video]
Raghuram Rajan

Banias and Beyond: The Dynamics of Caste and Big Business in Modern India
Harish Damodaran

Is Larry Summers the canary in the mine?
Devesh Kapur, Pratap Mehta and Arvind Subramanian, Financial Times, May 14, 2008

Are the Indian armed forces facing a human capital crisis?
Devesh Kapur, The Indian Express, March 27, 2008

"Jashn-e-Azadi" - Documentary Screening and discussion with filmmaker

Sanjay Kak

Date & Venue:
September 27, 2007
5:00 pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401, 3340 Walnut St
Philadelphia
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center

"Jashn-e-Azadi"

Shot and edited between August 2004-2006, "Jashn-e-Azadi" engages us with the idea of Azadi in Kashmir. In 2007, as India celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence, this is also a conversation about Freedom in India. Sanjay Kak is one of India's most significant documentary film makers today.

Written and directed by Sanjay Kak, photography Ranjan Palit, edited by Tarun Bhartiya 138 mins / Digital Video, Kashmiri/Urdu/English (English subtitles)