Vimkuti: Memories of Dust, Sounds and Agonies (56 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
imkuti: Memories of Dust, Sounds and Agonies (56 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Dheeman Bhattacharyya
Produced by Apne Aap Women Worldwide
Shot on location across villages in Gujarat and Bengal, the film is an outcome of the research conducted by Apne Aap Women Worldwide in collaboration with ICSSR on the Educational Attainment of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes in the six states of India). It explores the issues of growing marginalization of the DNT community and their eco system in the neo-liberal society
Followed by a discussion
Panelists: Prof. Ramnika Gupta, author of Aadivasi Asmita ka Sankat and Editor of Yuddhrat Aam Admi; and Dheeman Bhattacharyya, filmmaker
Moderator: Ruchika Gupta, Professor New York University and Founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide