Screening & Discussion: SASI & 3rd i NY present Screening & Discussion: “Papilio Buddha” with Director Jayan Cherian

• Film

Papilio Buddha, NYC-based filmmaker Jayan Cherian’s debut feature, explores the life of a group of displaced Dalits ( the preferred term for those often called “untouchables”) in the Western Ghats of India and probes the new identity politics based on Ambedkarism, gaining momentum among the Dalits in the region, in the milieu of an ongoing land struggle.