Anand Patwardhan's new film

Anand Patwardhan writes:

My new film "Jai Bhim Comrade" (3hrs and 20 mins duration) will be screened one day prior to the Bhagwat Jadhav memorial meet held every year at Lovelane, Mazgaon.

Date: 9 January 2012

Time: 6 pm

Venue: 3-23 BIT Chawl, Love Lane, Mazgaon, Mumbai 10

PS. There will be other screenings in the next few weeks so come to this one only if u can commit 4 hrs of yr time.

This film had won the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film at the Film South Asia 2011 festival of documentaries, held in Kathmandu last October. Report here.

Rohinton Mistry readings: video extracts

Video extracts of protest readings of Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and the discussion on censorship, held at the Press Club, Mumbai, on October18, are available on Youtube.

Here are the links:

Anand Patwardhan reading out Rohinton Mistry's statement-in-progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImTwKx2ok0

Meher Pestonji reads the controversial portions from Rohinton Mistry's book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggxbPmjeCpE

Discussion on censorship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KOwvVyTKvg

More discussion on censorship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69HIZPqneYM

Discussion and rounding up of the session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnw6TA-r1kk

A young student gives her views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJk6gSHbpU