Reason: The War Between Faith and Rationality
Reason: The War Between Faith and Rationality
Join us for a special screening of the award winning documentary
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 9:30 am to 11:30 am
MIT Bartos Theater • E15-070 Ames Street • Kendall Station T • Cambridge
A conversation with film director Anand Patwardhan, Professor Sana Aiyar, History, MIT, and Professor Amartya Sen, Economics & Philosophy, Harvard
Co-sponsored by: WGS, Literature, Transmedia Storytelling, History, MIT-India, Starr Forum/ Center for International Studies, MIT LIST
Reason sets out to chart what Patwardhan sees as India’s slide away from the complex tumult of a secular democracy towards hardening divisions of power, caste, and religious belief — lines that are enforced increasingly by violence.