FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Life/Death (52 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Director: Sayantan Chakrabarti

 

Millions of lives are at stake in the extensive Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plains due to arsenic contamination of ground water. There is no figure to put to the number of lives already lost. Arsenic contamination has flourished notwithstanding high level action committees and detailed master plans. At one glance, it seems a predicament of epidemic proportions. On closer scrutiny, however, it becomes a farce featuring thirty years of collective failure – a failure of which all stakeholders are guilty

 

(Collaboration:  World Wide Fund for Nature-India)