“Is it a sin to be a farmer? No one cares about us. No one notices. No one hears our cries.” – Vidarbha farmer

In this fluidly edited and moving documentary, we follow committed activist and journalist P. Sainath as he speaks and writes about the thousands of farmers in India who commit suicide each year due to poverty and the inability to repay debts. P. Sainath’s energy and sense of outrage are contagious. As he visits the affected families and works every media angle at his disposal to get politicians to act, we see a society in denial, a lack of social justice for the poor and gaping wealth disparities in the country.

Human Rights Watch has published a number of reports on education and health in India as they relate to economic, social and cultural rights and the economic disparities there. http://www.hrw.org/en/asia/india.

preceded by:
Wagah
Supriyo Sen—Germany/India/Pakistan—2009—13m—doc
In Farsi, Hindi and Urdu with English subtitles

Wagah is the only checkpoint along the 2,000-mile border between India and Pakistan. Patriotic crowds on either side cheer their country's soldiers as they perform official exercises with formal precision and colorful dynamism, revealing more similarities than differences between the two nations.

Presented in association with Breakthrough, www.breakthrough.tv and Indo-American Arts Council, www.iaac.us