Nearly 2, 00, 000 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 ..
Post-screening Q&A with the filmmaker Deepa Bhatia and P. Sainath.
Filmmaker and veteran editor Deepa Bhatia’s first documentary, Nero’s Guests, explores India’s agrarian crisis through the work of award-winning journalist P. Sainath. In the film, P. 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. Born from a compulsion to draw the media’s attention to the spate of chilling farmer suicides in rural Maharashtra, this moving testament to India’s poor had a profound cultural, academic, and political impact. It succeeded in forcing a national dialogue on extreme wealth disparity and systemic neglect.
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As part of MAMI Independent. Free entry on first come first served basis. Post-screening Q&A with the film team. There will also be screening of short film - Nipaniya (Anamika Pal).
