Reason. [Part 2], In the name of cow

Publication/Creation:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2021]

Resource Type:

Video or Visual Material

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Reason. [Part 2], In the name of cow / production, direction and editing, Anand Patwardhan

Variant Titles:

In the name of cow

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Additional Author/Creators:

Patwardhan, Anand, film director, film producer, photographer, editor of moving image work, and distributor

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Internet videos

Subjects:

Democracy--India--21st century
Persecution--India--21st century
Religion and science--India--21st century
Religion and politics--India--21st century
India--Politics and government--21st century

Description/Summary

Summary:

Those who witnessed the scientific spirit fostered by the Enlightenment would scarcely believe that over 400 years later, Faith would still have an upper hand over Reason. Today as technologically advanced nations still debate the merits of Creationism and Evolution, the developing world falls prey to blind faith and religious war. Everywhere privatization and a rush to corner ever-depleting natural resources has catapulted corporates and their extreme right wing storm-troopers into power. With the collapse of egalitarian values, democracy itself is under siege. That we, the temporarily comfortable, rarely notice, is because an embedded media controls both information and entertainment. We see what they want us to see and quickly tire of seeing anything that matters. Reason takes us to a macrocosm--India, the world's largest democracy. Its eight chapters are a chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in a country which once aspired not just to Liberty, Egalite and Fraternity, but to lead the post-war world out of its mindless spiral of violence and greed. And yet the battle for Reason is not lost. Even as Brahminism (a priest ordained caste hierarchy that withheld knowledge from the working castes) drapes itself in the national flag and sends out its hit squads, resistance has not ended. For every brave rationalist gunned down or driven to suicide, many more take up the mantle. Reason is then both a warning and a promise.

Language:

Hindi

Language Note:

In Hindi with English subtitles.

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (2 hr. 3 min.)) : digital, sound, color

Technical Note:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

General Note:

Title from title frames.
Originally produced in [2018].

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Music, Shahir Nikam [and 6 others] ; camera and sound, Anand Patwardhan, Simantini Dhuru.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937382085302486

OCLC Number:

1245862355

Publisher Number:

ap-reas2 Docuseek2