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Reuter’s Coverage of America to Zanzibar

Here is a Reuter’s video on the exhibit America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far, at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, for which I was the lead academic advisor. I had no idea the tie was rakishly crooked. The Muslim Culture Exhibition on TRT Showcase from Reuters Content Solutions on Vimeo. The Muslim Culture Exhibition on TRT Showcase

Disturbing and Sad

A film that might prove objectionable to some is not being released. Now I understand that this is not a universal rejection, just in the South, and there are commercial interests involved. However, from commercial interests to implicit censorship is not a far stone’s throw. We saw it with Buster the Rabbit. How far will this go? At what point to stop being creative for fear of offending? At what point do we stop being thought provoking? At what point do we become soylent green?

2 thoughts on “Mira Nair and Uganda”

  1. Big Mira Nair fan here. Miss. Masala was fun, Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay, Vanity Fair. Ok, Kama Sutra (of all things!) was a snooze.
    The Indians in East Africa have an interesting story. Two large movements of Indians, one to Africa, and the other to the Caribbean (from which my family arrived in the US). Gujuratis and Panjabis to Africa, Uttar Pradeshis and Biharis to the Caribbean. On a recent trip to India, some people knew which part of the dispora I was from based on the spelling of my surname.

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