ABOUT THE FILM. Nearly two lakh farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Nero´s Guests is a story about India’s agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, P Sainath. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created 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 about who ‘Nero’s Guests’ are in today’s world.
ABOUT P SAINATH. P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize (and often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’), for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts. Winner of over 35 global and national awards, his current work the agrarian crisis has produced the largest journalistic body of work ever on the Indian countryside in terms of the problems faced by farming communities. It is also a body of work that goes far beyond the realm of journalism, capturing issues and complexities that academia and policy makers have failed to.
ABOUT DEEPA BHATIA . Deepa Bhatia is a Film Editor, based in Mumbai. She has worked with acclaimed directors like Govind Nihalani (Dev, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Deham) & Jahnu Barua (Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara, Har Pal). She recently edited ‘My Name is Khan’ directed by Karan Johar. Her other popular work as editor includes Rock On & Taare Zameen Par. Deepa has also been involved in research on several documentaries & films. Nero’s Guests is her first independent documentary.
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