RANGA SHANKARA THEATRE FEST ’11
SCREENINGS & DISCUSSIONS – Admission free.
Wed, 19 Oct. 7:30 PM
NERO’S GUESTS
English, 60 mins
Dir: Deepa Bhatia
SYNOPSIS: About 240,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since 1995, says journalist P. Sainath, Editor-Rural Affairs, The Hindu. But the mainstream media barely reflects either the suicides or the crisis driving them. Nero’s Guests is a story about India’s agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of P. Sainath.
Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues forced the issue on to the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act. Through his writings and lectures, Sainath makes us confront the India we don’t want to see, and provokes us to think who Nero’s Guests are in today’s world. From farms to fashion shows, from college campuses to the countryside,
Nero’s Guests is a film which looks at India’s growing inequality and our own complicity in its creation.
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