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🌟 Presented by UC Davis Muddle East/South Asia Studies Program
The UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program presents the India at the Crossroads: India Film Festival 2026. The India at the Crossroads: India Film Festival will feature Anand Patwardhan, an Indian documentary filmmaker.
About the Film(s):
A Time to Rise
On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.
In the Name of God (Ram ke Nam)
Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India's population, the greatest danger to the nation's extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or Muslim separatists, but from Hindu fundamentalists who are appealing to the 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a Hindu nation.