Ahmedabad, in the Gujarat region of India, is a troubled city. Once home to the ideas of Rajiv Gandhi, it has more recently suffered appalling communal violence. In MEMORIES OF MILK CITY, director Ruchir Joshi juxtaposes contemporary images - a small boy peddling ice cream on the street, young men who've gathered to ogle young women - with verse read by Madhu Rye to create a powerful mosaic.

Part of the SOUTH series.

"Nothing could be further from the routine documentary than the vivid orginality of Joshi's poetic portrait of cows and ice-cream in the streets of Ahmedabad."—Guardian (London)

"A quick dip into the bran tub of life as lived in the city of Ahmedabad, where sacred cows wander freely in shopping malls."—Time Out (London)

"An elegant lament to a city that once was, a city of entrepeneurs and philanthropists, now a city in travail."—Association for Asian Studies