Deepa Mehta

[Ann Saddlemyer]

Dear Colleagues,
   I expect most of you know Sharon Pollock's play about the Kamagata Maru 
incident?  Perhaps it should be revived. Ann

At 10:00 PM 14/05/2006, Denis Salter wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Deepa Mehta's next film is called Exclusion and is, in her words, "a true 
>story and is about a group of Indians—Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims—who 
>attempted to immigrate to Canada. They arrived in 1914 travelling on a 
>Japanese coal ship called the Kamagata Maru but like many before them were 
>barred by the racist immigration policies. They then mounted a legal 
>action to try and get asylum. It lasted two months, they lost and they 
>were sent back to India.
>
>"When they disembarked at Calcutta the British army opened fire and killed 
>most of them. One of the survivors eventually went back to Canada and shot 
>an immigration officer responsible for barring the group. It’s an 
>incredible story."  Source: 
><http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/deep-m15.shtml>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/deep-m15.shtml
>
>
>
>--Denis Salter.
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>for foreign aid for Africa: the military total outstrips human need by 20 
>to 1. Can someone please explain to me our contemporary balance of 
>values?"--Stephen Lewis.
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