The following screenings and discussions moderated by Shabani  Hassanwalia and Samreen Faruqui

 

10:00 to 14:00

Delhi Diary 2001  (55 min; dvd; 2001; English)

Director: Ranjani Mazumdar   

The film attempts to understand the impact of the imposition of Emergency (1975-77) and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 on the lives of people in the city of Delhi 

 

Sagolgi Eigi Wari (Pony and Me) 

(52 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Sunzu Bachaspatimayum 

The film is an intimate journey that follows the trail of a society hit by armed conflict, caught up in ethnic politics and ignored by the larger mainstream consciousness

 

14:00 to 20:00

Screenings and Discussions moderated by Subasri Krishnan

 

Accounts and Accountability (30 min; dvd; 2001)

Director: Radhika Kaul Batra 

The film shows how a group of villagers in Rajasthan, led by Aruna Roy, use the Right to Information Act as a powerful weapon to root out corruption 

 

14:30

The Hunt (26 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Biju Toppo  

The film explores the condition of human rights in the Naxal affected areas of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa

 

15:30

First Cry (52 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Ajay T.G.  

This is the story of a remarkable hospital in the mining township of Dalli-Rajhara, Chattisgarh known as Shahid (Martyrs) Hospital

 

17:00

Passive Euthanasia: Kahaani Karuna Ki (52 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Chetan Shah 

It tells the story of Aruna Shanbaug who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 40 years, following her rape

 

19:00

Candles in the Wind (52 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena

Punjab - the food bowl of India - is in the news for policy induced non-remunerative agriculture and escalating farm suicides