Event 31 • Saturday 19 November 2011, 10am • Venue: The Reading Room, Kanakakunnu Palace
A classic exploration of immigration and exchange between England and India. In 1965 Yash Pal Suri leaves India for the UK. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home – images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket – his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts.