Vikalp@Prithvi is a monthly series of documentaries and short films brought to you by Vikalp: Films for Freedom in collaboration with Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. In May 2020, Vikalp@Prithvi programmed Narmada: A Valley Rises, viewers posted their questions online. If you have missed the film you watch it here. Q. [Jayoo Patwardhan] My head hangs in shame. They just wiped out a whole natural culture and our heritage of an old way of life fiercely connected to its soil, plundered the most fertile Narmada basin all along those hundreds of miles, who will restore the plundering ? Is this what we believe...
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Ali Kazimi UBC Vancouver Sprint 2019 honorary degree recipient.
Canada Apologizes for Racist Incident 100 years After Rejecting Komagata Maru Ship of 370 Immigrants
Was honoured to be interviewed on one of my favourite news show Democracy Now! by the wonderful Amy Goodman. I was asked to come to the CBC building in Toronto, where the show had apparently rented a studio. I was led to a massive studio which looked strangely familiar – it was the set for the flagship, and iconic, Canadian prime time news show The National.
Remembering the Komagata Maru, CBC The National, May 22, 2014
In 2012, when I was in Vancouver for the launch of my book Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru, I was one of the people interviewed for a Simon Fraser University project called “Continuing the Journey”—yet another project inspired by my film Continuous Journey.
