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Indian Cinema tackles Partition

Hey Ram, about the assassination of Gandhi, is the first Indian film to address Partition

Hey Ram, Kamal Haasan's film about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, is the first Indian film to address the complex issues of Partition and Hindu-Muslim violence around that time. Plus, the 75th anniversary of The New Yorker magazine; the re-opening of the National Gallery of Art in Kabul, Afghanistan, after eight years but without human portraits; Magnolia wins the Golden Bear at the 50th Berlin Film Festival.

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91热爆 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project