Kozhikode to China

A documentary traces the role the city in Kerala played in cultural ties between India and China

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Joe Thomas Karackattu's recent attempt at documentary-making turned him into something of a voyager, quite like the subjects of his film, Guli's Children. The 35-year-old researcher set out to explore historic cultural ties between India and China, which had been spurred by trade from the 12th to 15th centuries. While explorers in that period had relied on enormous ships to carry them in and out of the two regions, Karackattu traversed 20,000 kilometres across both countries, hopping on planes, trains, and automobiles to tell their story. There have always been hints of Chinese ...

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Kozhikode to China