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Community Correspondent Diaries: Sarita Biswal

 
/ July 11, 2013

Sarita Biswal tells us about how her video, Deforestation Wreaks Havoc on Climate that helped bring the residents of her village, Kochila, Odisha together and put an end to the activities of the local timber mafia. I grew up in the Cuttack district of Odisha, surrounded by lush jungles. The inhabitants...

Community Correspondent Diaries: Sajad Rasool

 
/ July 11, 2013

The 21 year long insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir has left over 70,000 dead and 8,000 have gone missing while in prison. Sajad Rasool brings us these untold stories. Here he shares his experiences while making the video Missing Persons in Kashmir. I first heard of Mohammad Shafi Lone and...

Community Correspondent Diaries: Savita Rath

 
/ July 11, 2013

Savita Rath shares her experiences of bringing down corrupt industrialists, angry policemen and filming her video, Jindal Coal Mines: Destroying Land, Disrupting Life  Ever since I was picked for the VV training camp, I had a goal in mind. Everyone has a pet project; mine was to fight the Jindal conglomerate...

Community Correspondent Diaries- Amit Topno

 
/ July 11, 2013

Amit Topno shares his experiences on making his first film Hungry Elephants Raid Rural Jharkhand Elephants are a real menace where I stay. Everyone is very worried about the situation as our lives are affected on a daily basis. Agriculture is our mainstay in Nichitpur but all farming activities are...

In Solidarity with the Anti-POSCO Movement

 
/ July 10, 2013

To what extent will the Indian state go to cover up human rights violations that take place in order to facilitate foreign industries in India? This is a question that has been worrying me as well as several other human rights activists in light of the recent events in the...