Playing With The Past: Gandhi and Rang De Basanti with Torrey Dance Bollywood is For Lovers

In an effort to engage more with 20th Century Indian history, we play a board game about the Indian Independence movement and discuss Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s 2006 film Rang De Basanti.




Show Notes:


Welcome Torrey Dance!
If you’d like to skip the board game talk, jump to 48:21
What we were taught about the decolonization of India

Gandhi: The Decolonization of British India, 1917-1947
COIN Series



(INTERVAL (“Rang De Basanti” from Rang De Basanti)


Rang De Basanti
Awards aspirations
Indian revolutionaries

New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto


Arranged! and SHASN




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