A bus journey across India – 7 states, 6000 kilometres in just 60 days. But this would be unlike any other journey. The chosen destinations will never feature in a tourist brochure of “must-see’s” – this is the story of India’s forgotten backyards, of people brushed under the carpet of indifference and apathy; a story of individuals fighting all odds for their basic rights – a story of a thousand revolutions in a thousand Bhopals.

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With insightful interviews and rare footage from India's agricultural industry, this keenly observed film depicts Indian women's zealous struggle to maintain traditional farming practices. Examining the politics of seed production as exemplar of the conflict between ancient and modern concepts of land use, AMRIT BEEJA compares practices of women who consider seeds sacred with multinational companies' use of sterilized hybrids. Combining concepts from environmental leader Vandana Shiva and testimonies of women defying the spread of technologically-based cultivation, this evocative, political analysis celebrates the scientific basis of women's native practices, while exploring the changing meanings of healthy land use.

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Displacement of People Due To River Erosion In Bengal And Unscrupulous River Management

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** This is an audio visual CD. An innovative CD introducing Birds of Western Ghats with their original calls, songs with their lively colour photographs. Bird calls songs are recorded by well known ornithologists Mr. Sharad Apte with the help of sophisticated equipment. Recoding work is accomplishments of 10 years strenuous efforts.

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Two small villages in southern India now desperately trying to cope with dwindling water resources- from this very grass root level, Bittersweet Waters telescopes out into the history, the politics, the society and the developmental paradigms of a nation and explores and critiques the policies and decisions that have lead to the present state of affairs, thus offering a fresh take, a reality check on all that we have been taught to believe in. The movie takes us deep into history- to the Chola period where one of the first instances of water management in India can be found. Next it spotlights the post-independence days of the Green Revolution where in order to boost the economy of a primarily agrarian nation, irrigation was promoted but so were chemical fertilizers that while spurring the yield gradually made the land fallow and toxic. Later it examines the ‘bore-well fad’ which gripped the nation that ended up depleting the ground water resources before moving on to the phenomenon of the rise of the cities- which shifted the focus of the authorities and policy makers away from the villages. It is an important document of how the times have changed for the Indian nation, a reminder of her past mistakes and a cautionary tale for the future.

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