Word: bakshis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blurb written by Grady Hendrix of the Subway Cinema collective, the NYAFF's producers and programmers: "A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak ... has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences around the world. Not since the animated anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultra-violence than a thousand action films, annihilated all boundaries of good taste and bent numerous intellectual properties (like Batman) over the table and violated them so gleefully they may never recover.... Great...
...five days last December, Zimbabwean officials jailed thesis researcher Amar C. Bakshi ’06 on charges of espionage. During his brush with authority, one thing he did not have to worry about was the safety of his interviewees.Long before, in Cambridge, Mass., Bakshi had worked with the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research, which reviewed his methods to make sure neither he nor his research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi...
When he chose to write his senior thesis on the Zimbabwean government’s manipulation of the media, Amar C. Bakshi ’06 never thought he’d be a target of the repressive regime himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days...
Leverett: Luke M. Appling, Amar C. Bakshi, Elizabeth W. Green, Stephanie R. Hurder, Alice C. Hwang, Long Le-Khac, Jose P. Payne-Johnson, Emily C. Richmond, Julian M. Rose, L. Alexander Slack...
More than two months after the detainment, Bakshi said that the experience has affected him in a number of ways. He said it made him realize how fortunate he is to be able to speak publicly about the experience, especially compared to Zimbabweans who “must endure a corrupt system in constant fear of being harassed for what they say or think...