[Reader-list] Deba's film 'At the Crossroads'

[Nagraj Adve]

Kriti Film Club in collaboration with Indian Habitat Center is pleased to
present to you ‘At the Cross Roads’, a film that revives the struggle of
the oppressed and talks about the plight of people in the situation of
conflict.

At :
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Date : 30th May , 2013 (Thursday)
7:00 pm- At the Cross Roads
Deba Ranjan |90 mins| Regional Languages with English subs| 2013

About the Film:

The Nehruvian era made ordinary people - mostly adivasis and dalits - lose
their lands, forests and streams in the name of ‘national development’.
That development never reached them. Not only they remained as deprived of
basic health care and education as ever, but also of even safe drinking
water though surrounded by reservoirs and dams. While this state injustice
continued unabated, the post-liberalization era made these very people
`anti-national’, ‘anti-development’ and `Maoists/Naxalites’, when they
resisted corporate land grab for mining and industrialization. This
branding became and continues to be an easy license to kill them with
impunity. Southern Odisha is witness to this war between the hapless people
and the neoliberal development paradigm. It led to CPI (Maoist)
consolidating its presence in this area in the recent past. The film tries
to explore the predicament, the dilemma and the confusion of the local
people, especially, of adivasis and dalits in this war zone.

Note: The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film maker

About the Film maker:

Debaranjan Sarangi is an Orissa-based anti-mining activist, writer and
film-maker. He spent eight years with the anti-mining movement of adivasis
in Kashipur, Orissa, and is also involved in anti-communal struggles. He
writes on anti-mining resistance, development trajectories, communalism,
and related issues.

About Kriti Film Clib:

Kriti Film Club is an educational and research oriented initiative of
‘Kriti: a development research, praxis and communication team’. We offer an
independent and informal platform for screening documentary films on a
whole range of development, human rights & environment issues. We also
serve as an access space for documentary films.


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