Fishers of Men May 3, 2011

Ranjan Kamath's film examines the forced reconversion of Christians in rural India back to Hinduism. For over a century, a substantial number of Adivasis, or tribal peoples of the Chottanagpur plateau, have been converting to Christianity in order to free themselves from the bonded labour and feudal oppression of the Hindu caste system, despite forced reconversions, threats, violence, and murders of their leaders and missionaries by fundamentalist Hindus. By examining this conflict between fundamentalist Hinduism and Christianity, director Ranjan Kamath exposes and punctures the myth of a single, unified India and creates an important, but neglected, dialogue about inter-religious relations and the urban rural divide in South Asia. Followed by discussion with director Ranjan Kamath. Free admission.