“Between Memory and History: Anand Patwardhan’s 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑣𝑎 𝐾𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑚” by Kathiravan Annamalai

“Between Memory and History: Anand Patwardhan’s 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑣𝑎 𝐾𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑚” by Kathiravan Annamalai

RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anand Patwardhan, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The World is Family), 2023. 96 min. "Yatum Ure! Everyone laughs!" (“Every place is our homeland, everyone is our kin”)—these words from the Tamil Sangam poet Kaniyan Poongundranar carry a striking urgency in our present moment. Two millennia ago, this vision of borderless humanity found eloquent expression in his poetry, later reverberati…