14 May 2013, 05:30 am
Premiere of Where there are no roads"¦

(48 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director & Cinematographer: Maulee Senapati
Scripted & Produced by Sanjoy Hazarika who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

A unique experiment rides the waves of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, where a major innovative health campaign reaches some of the most marginalized and poorest communities in India living on hundreds of islands, inaccessible and isolated, unknown and unheard. There are no roads here but today, over a dozen boat clinics, conceived and developed by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, manned by doctors, nurses, lab technicians and pharmacists as well as crew, organizers and community workers reaches more than six lakh people, pulling them out of a deadly cycle of maternal and infant mortality