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SUMMARY: Film Screening and Discussion: Sikkidre Shikari\, Illadiddare Bhik
 ari (Bird Trapper or Beggar)
DESCRIPTION: Join CISAR for a film screening of "Sikkidre Shikari\, Illadid
 dare Bhikari (Bird Trapper or Beggar)"\, followed by a discussion and Q&A w
 ith Madhu Bhushan and Vinod Raja.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-55297 siz
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 .png" alt="" width="620" height="349" /></p><p>Join the <a href="https://sp
 pga.ubc.ca/institutes-centres/institute-of-asian-research/cisar/"><strong>C
 entre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)</strong></a> in partnership
  with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of A
 nthropology for a film screening of the documentary "<em>Sikkidre Shikari\,
  Illadiddare Bhikari (Bird Trapper or Beggar)</em>" on <strong>November 17t
 h\, 6:00 PM (PST)</strong> at <strong>xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)</st
 rong>. The event will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film dir
 ector\, Madhu Bhushan and film cinematographer\, Vinod Raja.</p><p><strong>
 About the Documentary</strong><br />In the 1950's and early sixties\, effor
 ts were made by the Government of India to settle Nomadic tribes across the
  country including the Hakki Pikkis who were settled in the Southern parts 
 of Karnataka.</p><p>Also called Shikaris\, the Hakki Pikkis have wandered a
 ll the way from Gujarat to different parts of the country. As they moved th
 ey survived through trapping birds in the forests and selling them in citie
 s and towns along with lucky charms and trinkets. If the trap failed\, begg
 ing was the next best bet!</p><p>They claim descent from those warriors who
  fought in and fled from the battle between Rana Pratap Singh and Emperor A
 kbar and came down South around 400 years ago</p><p>They continue till date
  to defiantly dance on the blurred boundaries between the field and the for
 est\; modernity and tradition\; law and disorder\; between movement and sti
 llness.</p><p>Exiled from the forest\, reviled by the city\, their traditio
 nal ways of life outlawed\, the Hakki Pikkis share their stories of wit and
  survival in the film\, released in 2018\, that emerged through a series of
  community conversations held when we travelled with friends from a settlem
 ent in Bannerghatta\, Bangalore to other settlements across Karnataka.</p>
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LOCATION:Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
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