A screening of the documentary film “We Have Not Come Here to Die” will take place at 6 p.m. Friday in the Global and International Studies Building 0011.
The screening will be followed by a discussion by two IU Ph.D. candidates.
The documentary explores the issue of caste discrimination in Indian university spaces after Dalit activist and research scholar Rohith Vemula’s death by suicide. In his suicide note, Vemula wrote against the “value of a man being reduced to his immediate identity.” The film follows the political movement galvanized by his death.
The film was directed by filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj, whose other directing credits include the documentaries “Invoking Justice” and “Something Like a War.”
“Dheepa Danraj is a feminist filmmaker whose extensive filmography covers issues such as population control policies, sectarian politics, women and customary law and civil liberties,” reads a press release for the screening.
The postscreening discussion will be led by Ph.D. candidates Pallavi Rao and Aditi. Aditi is an anticaste activist and Ph.D. student in the School of Education, and Rao is a Ph.D. student in the Media School.
