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In: Kun-phan deb-phreng 10
In: ཀུན་ཕན་དེབ་ཕྲེང 10
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In: ངག་རྒྱུན་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དེབ་ཕྲེང 5
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In: ངག་རྒྱུན་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དེབ་ཕྲེང 52
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In: The Anand Patwardhan Collection
This film documents the violence and terror in Punjab, India--a land torn apart by religious fundamentalists and a repressive government. After examining the political turmoil of the late 1970's and the rise of Sikh fundamentalism, the film focuses on the legacy of Bhagat Singh, a young socialist executed by the British in 1931 at the age of 23. Singh has since become a legend. Today the State eulogizes him as a nationalist while Sikh separatists portray him as a Sikh militant. In fact, Singh was neither. Just prior to his death he wrote a book which he entitled "Why I Am An Atheist." In strife-torn Punjab a band of brave Sikhs and Hindus carry Bhagat Singh's secular legacy from village to village. In the religiously charged countryside ideas of internationalism and secularism now carry a price