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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Built around shared reading, discussion and attentive listening, the initiative creates a space where participants can collectively engage with ideas across sound, performance, philosophy and contemporary art while building an international community of exchange.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Madverse Empower Fund 3.0 Jury Panel]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Madverse Empower Fund 3.0]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The rise of godmen is often a symptom of deeper societal failures: the institutionalisation of faith, the lack of public education and healthcare, social isolation, economic insecurity, and the human need for meaning in an increasingly chaotic world.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/hirak-rajar-deshe-satyajit-rays-prescient-parable-against-anti-intellectualism</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Utpal Dutt as the titular ‘Hirak Raja’, a tyrant who shuts down schools, burns books, and brainwashes the people of his kingdom to turn them into mindless drones whose only purpose is to work in the diamond mines.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Soumitra Chattopadhyay as ‘Udayan Pandit’, the village teacher who leads a rebellion against Hirak Raja.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Through a fantastical kingdom ruled by a ruthless monarch, Ray explores the dangers of propaganda, anti-intellectualism, worker exploitation, and blind obedience ]]></image:caption>
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