Reason
Art of the Real 2019
April 18 - 28, 2019
Anand Patwardhan’s epic chronicle of India’s ongoing persecution of its own people provides both a detailed history of the murders of many public figures and a present-day exploration of the terrorist acts that have resulted from the country’s fall from democracy.
Q&A with Anand Patwardhan
An epic chronicle of India’s ongoing violence against its own people, Anand Patwardhan’s masterfully assembled documentary charts nearly a century’s worth of caste-related persecution carried out in the name of nationalist and religious ideology. Stretching from the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi to the more recent deaths of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, Reason provides a detailed account of the controversies surrounding the murders of many figures associated with the country’s “untouchable” Dalit caste, before exploring the community’s current-day protests and the acts of terrorism that have multiplied as a result of the country’s fall from democracy.
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