Symbiosis drops docu on Kashmir over ABVP ire

January 30, 2012 15:12

Pune's Symbiosis University has cancelled a scheduled screening of director Sanjay Kak's documentary Jashn-e-Azadi after the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad protested against it, reports The Hindu newspaper.

The film was supposed to be screened at the college's three-day national seminar, Voices of Kashmir', organised in association with the University Grants Commission from February 3-5. But with the ABVP objecting to the seminar itself, its fate too seems uncertain.

The parishad's Pune unit secretary Shailendra Dalvi told The Hindu: The content of the seminar, like the film, is anti-India, and against the Indian Army. We will not stand for anything that divides the country. Symbiosis has agreed to cancel the film screening, and we are giving them three days' time to think about the event, too.

The seminar is to be attended by, among others, Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar and Kak himself.

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