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<p DEFANGED_style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">110 minutes. Hindi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalm with English sub-titles </DEFANGED_span></p>
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<p DEFANGED_style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"INDIA UNTOUCHED-Stories of a People Apart" is perhaps the most comprehensive look at Untouchability ever undertaken on film.
</DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Director Stalin K. spent four years traveling the length and breadth of the country to expose the continued oppression of 'Dalits,' the 'broken people' who suffer under a 4000 year-old religious system.
<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>The film introduces leading </DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Benares</DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits 'have no right' to education, and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that no Dalit may sit in their presence, and that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities.
<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>The film captures many 'firsts-on-film,' such as Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles and remove their shoes when in the upper caste part of the village.<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>It exposes the continuation of caste practices and Untouchability in Sikhism, Christianity and Islam, and even amongst the communists in Kerala. Dalits themselves are not let off the hook: within Dalits, sub-castes practice Untouchability on the 'lower' sub-castes, and a Harijan boy refuses to drink water from a Valmiki boy. The viewer hears that Untouchability is an urban phenomenon as well, inflicted upon a leading medical surgeon and in such hallowed institutions as JNU, where a Brahmin boy builds a partition so as not to look upon his Dalit roommate in the early morning. A section on how newspaper matrimonial columns are divided according to caste presents urban Indians with an uncomfortable truth: marriage is the leading perpetuator of caste in
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<p DEFANGED_style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Directed by Stalin K:</DEFANGED_span></b> <DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Stalin K. is a human rights activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. In recent years, he has become known for his pioneering 'participatory media' work with urban and rural communities, in which local people produce their own videos and radio programs as an empowerment tool.
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Director of Video Volunteers.<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>He is a renowned public speaker and has lectured or taught at over 20 institutions ranging from the National Institute of Design and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, to New York University and Stanford and Berkeley in the US.
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DRISHTI is a leading media and human rights organization in </DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">India</DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, with program areas of community radio, campaign design, documentary filmmaking, street theatre, participatory video, community arts and youth activism. Drishti has produced over 25 films on development issues, designed over a dozen rights-based campaigns, and conducted over 300 training workshops with more than 100 NGOs. Drishti's films are used by more than 1000 groups around the world, and the organization is a leading proponent of community radio, having set up one of the most renowned and successful community radio programs in the country.
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<p DEFANGED_style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Presented by Navsarjan Trust:</DEFANGED_span> </b><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Navsarjan Trust, a leading Dalit human rights organization, works in over 3000 villages in
</DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Gujarat</DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">.<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>Its mission is to eradicate Untouchability through legal remedies and struggles against forced occupations such as manual scavenging, and by ensuring Dalits' access to education and livelihood.
<DEFANGED_span></DEFANGED_span> <DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>Navsarjan's Founder, Martin Macwan, was the recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Human Rights.<DEFANGED_span> </DEFANGED_span>He has led the Dalit struggle at an international level as the Convener of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, when he led a delegation of 200 Dalit activists to the World Conference against Racism in
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India.38854<br><a DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.drishtimedia.org/" target="_blank">www.drishtimedia.org</a><br>Tel : 91-79-26851235