Overview in the Indian magazine Frontline, by Namita Wahi (a Harvard Law doctoral candidate) of the fundamental right to property as outlined in India’s constitution, and how it has affected the poor and disenfranchised.
Overview in the Indian magazine Frontline, by Namita Wahi (a Harvard Law doctoral candidate) of the fundamental right to property as outlined in India’s constitution, and how it has affected the poor and disenfranchised.
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From the Harvard South Asia Initiative Newsletter: On Monday, Sept. 17, Chef Vikas Khanna, Michelin Starred Indian Chef, restaurateur, food writer, film maker, humanitarian and the host of the TV show MasterChef India will bring True Business, a film about Sikh community kitchens, or langars, which provide free food to everyone who comes, regardless of belief. The langar has been a part of Sikh tradition since the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak. The tradition is based in the ethic of equality, sharing, community and inclusiveness. True Business is the first film in Khanna’s Holy Kitchens film series, which visits sacred places, religious leaders, philosophers and devotees of the world’s religions to examine the experience of sharing food in a spiritual context. Watch the trailer here.
The Holy Kitchens series also includes films on the relationship between food and other faiths including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and others. More info can be found here.
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Here’s an interesting analysis from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette (!) of the “Slumdog Millionaire” debate that began a few years back.
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Check out “Oprah Travels to India,” on “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” especially the first episode, in which Oprah discovers that a family of five can live happily–by their own account–in a 100-square-foot room.
In this clip from “Oprah Travels to India,” Oprah says she now understands what’s really important after visiting the Hegde family’s 10-foot-by-10-foot home in Mumbai. Oprah also visits the family’s bathing area, where 60 neighbors share four toilets and a small room for washing. Accompanying Oprah is Shantaram author Gregory David Roberts.
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There will be a Raj Kapoor Film Series at Harvard Film Archive, September 2012: Raj Kapoor Film Series Schedule.
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