Ginsberg's Karma

FAIN: TT-269738-20

Rattapallax, Inc. (New York, NY 10012-1361)
Ram Devineni (Project Director: August 2019 to October 2022)

Production of a documentary about the American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–97).

Short documentary about the American Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg and his trip to India which transformed him and helped bring Buddhism to the United States.

Associated Products

Ginsberg’s Karma: A new documentary creatively illuminates the American poet’s time in India (Article)
Title: Ginsberg’s Karma: A new documentary creatively illuminates the American poet’s time in India
Author: Sandip Ray
Abstract: Story about "Ginsberg's Karma"
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/ginsbergs-karma-a-new-documentary-creatively-illuminates-the-american-poets-time-in-india-9678891.html
Primary URL Description: When 'America's most famous poet' came to India, he was broke, disillusioned, fed up with the notoriety of ‘Howl’ and the media circus around its trial.
Format: Newspaper
Periodical Title: FirstPost
Publisher: FirstPost

UK Asian Film Festival (Exhibition)
Title: UK Asian Film Festival
Curator: Pushpinder Chowdhry
Abstract: Virtual and public screening of "Ginsberg's Karma" at festival in London and online in June 2021
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.tonguesonfire.com/virtual-screenings

Allen Ginsberg's Legacy and Life in India (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Allen Ginsberg's Legacy and Life in India
Abstract: Conversation with biographer and writer DEBORAH BAKER, poet BOB HOLMAN, writer and scholar TONY TRIGILIO, and filmmaker RAM DEVINENI. Discussion about Allen Ginsberg's and the film.
Author: Tony Trigilio
Author: Ram Devineni
Author: Bob Holman
Author: Deborah Baker
Date: 06/03/2021
Location: Online YouTube and FaceBook
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/FdYJf8G8IfA

Ginsberg's Karma (Blog Post)
Title: Ginsberg's Karma
Author: Paul Reyes
Abstract: Launch on VQR for "Ginsberg's Karma"
Date: 06/09/2021
Primary URL: https://www.vqronline.org/
Primary URL Description: Posting social media and email list to promote film.
Website: Virginia Quarterly Review

Bob Holman's India Journals (Book)
Title: Bob Holman's India Journals
Author: Bob Holman
Editor: Edwin Torres
Abstract: From Bob Holman's India Journals: "I pull my camera out and stand next to Ram while he shoots with the pro camera. By gumbo, it is beautifully lit! and once Jitendra starts to rock, rolling it out like Ginsberg himself, a satori moment re: the aforementioned Trilochen, which means “Third Eye” in Hindi. Jitendra recites, in Hindi, a Trilochen poem about Ginsberg, footnotes spoken in English. It starts to sink in — is this local poet, one of the hundreds Allen would meet in India, the missing link, marking the beginning of his transformation from taking drugs to following a spiritual path?" Available on Google Books / Amazon / Apple iBooks Looking for a journey to the High Ear of Poetry? What you need is a quick trip to India — through the jottings of Bob Holman! Discover the Secret of Consciousness! The Truth of Matter! The Holy Vernacular Guru! How the 60s were born, how Buddhism came to the US, and how a band of vagabond poets changed the world! "Check out these documents emanating from a generous heart — wonderful sonorous poems — that as Allen Ginsberg would agree, ease the pain of living." — Anne Waldman
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.rattapallax.com/ginsberg
Access Model: Free online
Publisher: Rattapallax
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Bob Holman's India Journals (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Bob Holman's India Journals
Writer: Bob Holman
Director: Peter Gordon
Director: Bob Holman
Producer: Ram Devineni
Abstract: Performance and reading of "Bob Holman's India Journals" which was part of the "Ginsberg's Karma"
Date: 06/04/2021
Primary URL: https://soundcloud.com/rattapallax/bob-holmans-india-journals-track-1
Primary URL Description: First Edition of Bob Holman's India Journal
Secondary URL: https://soundcloud.com/rattapallax/bob-holmans-india-journals-track-2
Secondary URL Description: Second Edition of Bob Holman's India Journal
Access Model: Free
Format: Web

Ginsberg's Karma film (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Ginsberg's Karma film
Writer: Bob Holman
Director: Ram Devineni
Producer: Ram Devineni
Producer: Bob Holman
Abstract: Ginsberg’s Karma is an insightful and entertaining look at a transformative phase in the poet Allen Ginsberg’s life -- his first trip to India in 1962 would transform him into America’s first hippie. While in India, he experimented with mind-altering drugs, spiritualism, and became a political activist. The documentary follows poet Bob Holman as he travels to India to piece together Ginsberg’s life there, and interviews many of the writers who knew him during his trip. Ginsberg’s adventures and what he experienced in India are the bridge between the Beat generation of the 1950s to the hippie counterculture of the 1960s in America.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl0iH7xUENo
Primary URL Description: Entire film "Ginsberg's Karma" on YouTube
Access Model: Open free access
Format: Film

Ginsberg’s Karma: Documentary film on a hippy's discovery of India (Article)
Title: Ginsberg’s Karma: Documentary film on a hippy's discovery of India
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Abstract: Article and review about "Ginsberg's Karma" in India Today. Article online and in print. Largest in India
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20210809-ginsberg-s-karma-documentary-film-on-a-hippy-s-discovery-of-india-1834824-2021-07-30
Primary URL Description: Article and review about "Ginsberg's Karma" in India Today
Access Model: Open
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: India Today
Publisher: India Today

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