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Diverse, plural and multi-layered, India boasts a dizzying variety of economic, social, ethnic and religious groups. In our season-long Focus on India, presented in collaboration with the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, we explore the dazzling culture of this fascinating nation in a film and photo exhibition; through solo Kathak dance; and in the hands of two standout musicians of Indian descent.
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Press Release:
Mondavi Center Explores the Art of Growing Up in India
GROWING UP IN INDIA
A Film and Photographic Exhibition
India is hurtling towards several crossroads at once. Skyrocketing economic growth has transfigured its metropolitan culture, while an uncertain future looms across its impoverished rural countryside, home to more than half of its billion-plus people living in a space one-third the size of the United States. These changes mirror the shifting moral and cultural orientation of its upwardly-mobile, burgeoning middle classes.
The Growing Up In India festival focuses on the juxtaposition of the old and new, the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and on the child and the adult to be. Nothing highlights the possibilities and conflicts of this wide open future more poignantly than the stories of adolescence.
The photographic exhibit curated by Dinesh Khanna, documentaries and movies presented in this two-day festival bring to light India’s next generations and their journey into a new world of rapidly changing outcomes.
Sudipta Sen
Director of Middle East/South Asian Studies
Professor of History
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Growing Up In India
Film Series
Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
SALAAM BOMBAY!
Monday, Nov 14, 2011 7PM VST
Directed by Mira Nair (1988)
Not Rated, 113 minutes
PINK SARIS
Tuesday, No 15, 2011 4PM VST
Directed by Kim Longinotto (2010)
Not Rated, 96 minutes
UDAAN
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011 7PM VST
Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
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