Calling all those who will be watching this tomorrow at their schools–Guantanomo: How Should We Respond?–please do find time to post comments. I will too.

A still from the documentary “Dirty Laundry”

Director:
Sanjeev Chatterjee

Written and Narrated by Amitava Kumar

Duration: 42 mins
Synopsis:
This film explores questions of race, nationality, home, belonging and justice through the lens of an Indian visiting South Africa and meeting those people of Indian origin who have been involved in the anti-apartheid struggle . Some are descendants of the early Indian migrants and indentured laborers in South Africa–a few of whom were represented, in their legal battles with racial injustice, by a young lawyer who would later be called Mahatma Gandhi.

I screened it tonight as a part of the annual Gandhi lecture that I was delivering at Vassar College. This film is a sequel to “Pure Chutney” which is a film that Sanjeev and I made a few years ago. “Dirty Laundry” is also being shown at the 2006 South Asian International Film Festival in New York City.

P.S. Here is my friend Vinay Lal on Gandhi the Gambler. The piece was written on Gandhi’s birth anniversary.

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