{"id":13544,"date":"2012-09-21T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2013-03-06T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:27:25","slug":"peepli-busca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2012\/09\/21\/peepli-busca\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Co-Sponsors Film Screening with BUCSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Peeplilive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13548\" title=\"Peeplilive\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Peeplilive.jpg\" alt=\"Peeplilive\" height=\"292\" width=\"217\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday, October 9, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will co-sponsor a movie screening of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peeplilivethefilm.com\/\">Peepli Live<\/a> <\/strong>followed by a reception\u00a0with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/\">BU Center for the Study of Asia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.akshayapatra.org\">Akshaya Patra Foundation<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/buic.org\">BU India Club<\/a>. The event will take place at 640 Commonwealth Ave., College of Communication, Room 101, from 6 to 8 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Peepli Live is a comic satire exploring farmer suicides in India and media and official responses.\u00a0When indigent farmers Natha (Omkar Das) and Budhia (Raghuvir Yadav) stand to lose their land over a loan they can\u2019t repay, a government official comes up with a modest proposal: Commit suicide and collect a subsidy that\u2019s paid to the relatives of deceased farmers. As Natha weighs his options, a journalist learns of his predicament and the media circus begins. Anusha Rizvi directs this satirical take on a real-life crisis afflicting India\u2019s underclass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 9, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will co-sponsor a movie screening of\u00a0Peepli Live followed by a reception\u00a0with the BU Center for the Study of Asia,\u00a0Akshaya Patra Foundation, and\u00a0BU India Club. The event will take place at 640 Commonwealth Ave., College of Communication, Room 101, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5355,84,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/14763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}