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Vidyapeeth film festival organised in Gujarat
By Ruchita Khurana
Published in toxicslink.org, 08/10/2004
Gujarat Vidyapith was established in Ahmedabad in 1920 with the aim of
training activists for India's freedom movement. It is now a deemed university
and runs various courses such as Bachelor in Rural Services (BRS), Master
of Social Work, Graduates Basic Training Course (equivalent to BEd), MPhil
and PhD programmes, courses in journalism, etc.
Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, a Gujarat-based NGO, held a three-day lecture
series by various experienced activists, which ran concurrently in different
hostels. (There are some 550 students residing in their hostels.) The
lectures were conducted from September 27-29, 2004. The aim was to orient
students and encourage them to consider working on development issues
after graduation. During the course of this lecture series, selected films
were screened from the ‘Quotes from the Earth’ film festival
package on Water, Drought, Hunger and Environment.
The films which were screened as part of these lectures were:
Water
Chaliyar… the final struggle
Water harvesting spot
Hunting down water
Marubhumi
Hunger
Seeds of plenty, seeds of sorrow
Harvesting hunger
Why are Warangal farmers angry with Bt cotton?
Meals ready
Survival
The many faces of madness
Buddha weeps in Jaduguda
Development flows from the barrel of the gun
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