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The award-winning Delhi-based film-maker, Pankaj Butalia, will offer a selective screening and discussion of one of his three recent documentary films concerned with the consequences of violence in the embattled border regions of North and Northeast India. The film-- Manipur Song (2009), is concerned with the crises of militarized violence and dispossession of ordinary lives in Manipur.



Manipur Song

61 minutes 2009 - Documentary

Set in Manipur the film seeks to foreground a state that exists on the periphery of the Indian imagination.



As with other North Eastern states, culturally and ethnically Manipur has remained estranged from the dominant Indian culture and has repeatedly sought to assert its identity through insurgency. In 1980-81 the Indian state countered by giving unprecedented powers to its army to deal with insurgency. The 'Armed Forces Special Powers Act' (AFSPA), gives complete immunity to the army and led to killings and rapes. The situation got so bad that in August 2004 a group of women disrobed in front of the army barracksholding banners saying 'Indian Army Rape Us'.

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