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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Gujarat: A Work in Progress & Lesser Humans (Venth Chetha)</b>

Two Films by K. Stalin & the Drishti Media Collective

@ the Brecht Forum, NYC
Tuesday, Dec 6 2005 @ 7:30 PM

<b>Gujarat: A Work in Progress</b> -- In March 2002, the neo-fascist Hindutva
movement in India unleashed a State sponsored pogropm that left more
than 3000 Indian Muslims dead in Gujarat, India.

Through interviews with survivors, this film reconstructs the
systematic carnage unleashed on the minorities in Ahmedabad from
28th February 2002 onwards. The film is a work in progress and
was put together to be submitted to the National
Human Rights Commission when it first visited Gujarat in the third week
of March 2002. K. Stalin and the Drishti media collective are based in
Ahmedabad, one of the prime sites of the massacre, and recorded the
carnage even as it was unfolding.

35 minutes. Hindi, Gujarati with
English Sub-titles

<b>Lesser Humans (Venth Chetha)</b>-- 50 years of Independence have not
changed the lives of the Bhangis in Gujarat, who even today continue the
profession prescribed to them by the caste system -- manually disposing
human excreta. This film investigates the factors responsible for the
continuance of this often banned inhuman practice.

59 min. Gujarati, English. 1998


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