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Tales from the Margins
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2007-09-21 16:30
2007-09-21 17:00
2007-09-21 from 16:30 to 17:00 |
| Where | Seminar Hall, Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-1100029 |
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Director: Kavita Joshi
Language: Manipuri
Subtitles in English
Twelve women strip themselves naked on the streets of Manipur, in protest… For five years a young woman has been on a fast-to-death demanding justice; she is kept under arrest and is forcibly nose-fed. Why are the women of Manipur using their bodies both as their last weapon and as a battlefield?
Manipur is a state in India’s North-East region, driven for decades by insurgency and violence. The Indian government has attempted to crush the insurgency through its military might; shielded by undemocratic laws. Arrests, torture, extra-judicial killings — Manipuri people have faced them all. Yet, little is heard about Manipur and its troubles across the nation’s landscape. This is a place that mainland India has marginalised; that the world has forgotten.
‘Tales from the Margins’ travels to this remote, strife-torn corner of India to seek out stories of uncommon courage in the face of despair, to help articulate the anger and anguish of Manipuri women and to document their extraordinary protests… and through their lives, to focus the spotlight on a vast human tragedy.
Subtitles in English
Twelve women strip themselves naked on the streets of Manipur, in protest… For five years a young woman has been on a fast-to-death demanding justice; she is kept under arrest and is forcibly nose-fed. Why are the women of Manipur using their bodies both as their last weapon and as a battlefield?
Manipur is a state in India’s North-East region, driven for decades by insurgency and violence. The Indian government has attempted to crush the insurgency through its military might; shielded by undemocratic laws. Arrests, torture, extra-judicial killings — Manipuri people have faced them all. Yet, little is heard about Manipur and its troubles across the nation’s landscape. This is a place that mainland India has marginalised; that the world has forgotten.
‘Tales from the Margins’ travels to this remote, strife-torn corner of India to seek out stories of uncommon courage in the face of despair, to help articulate the anger and anguish of Manipuri women and to document their extraordinary protests… and through their lives, to focus the spotlight on a vast human tragedy.