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Being Indian, Sanju's Story
directed by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012; produced by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2009), 26 mins
Seven year old Sanju Benia literally lives on the wrong side of the tracks. A railway line cuts straight through her remote tribal village. Her only option is to cross the track – and watch out for the trains that thunder past. Sanju is an Untouchable, the lowest of the low. But because she lives in a tribal vil...
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directed by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012; produced by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2009), 26 mins
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Seven year old Sanju Benia literally lives on the wrong side of the tracks. A railway line cuts straight through her remote tribal village. Her only option is to cross the track – and watch out for the trains that thunder past. Sanju is an Untouchable, the lowest of the low. But because she lives in a tribal village and not in mainstream Indian society, Sanju has a slightly better quality of life. But life for Sanju and her family is still a co...
Seven year old Sanju Benia literally lives on the wrong side of the tracks. A railway line cuts straight through her remote tribal village. Her only option is to cross the track – and watch out for the trains that thunder past. Sanju is an Untouchable, the lowest of the low. But because she lives in a tribal village and not in mainstream Indian society, Sanju has a slightly better quality of life. But life for Sanju and her family is still a constant struggle.
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Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, SW Pictures, Anya Sitaram
Author / Creator
Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
Being Indian
Speaker / Narrator
Anya Sitaram
Topic / Theme
Domestic life, Indian people, Humanities, Fijians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Scott White Pictures.
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Being Indian, Biru's Story
directed by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012; produced by Richard Wilson, Dick Bower and Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
In the eyes of Indian society, Biru Malik, a nine-year-old boy living in a remote village in Bihar, is regarded as one of the lowest of the low. Biru is an Untouchable. He has been excluded from education and spends his day herding the family pigs. Biru is resigned to his future – but his parents are not.
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directed by Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012; produced by Richard Wilson, Dick Bower and Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
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In the eyes of Indian society, Biru Malik, a nine-year-old boy living in a remote village in Bihar, is regarded as one of the lowest of the low. Biru is an Untouchable. He has been excluded from education and spends his day herding the family pigs. Biru is resigned to his future – but his parents are not.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Richard Wilson, Dick Bower, Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Saritha Wilkinson, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
Being Indian
Topic / Theme
Domestic life, Education, Indian people, Humanities, Arabs, Jews
Copyright Message
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Being Indian, Isha's Story
produced by SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
Isha Dua is one of the lucky ones. As the 15-year-old daughter of middle-class parents she enjoys a private education. She is eloquent, intelligent and compared to millions of other children in Delhi, she lives a very privileged life. Isha realises just how lucky she really is when she sees how life might have bee...
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produced by SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
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Isha Dua is one of the lucky ones. As the 15-year-old daughter of middle-class parents she enjoys a private education. She is eloquent, intelligent and compared to millions of other children in Delhi, she lives a very privileged life. Isha realises just how lucky she really is when she sees how life might have been at a conference about the abolition of child marriage.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
SW Pictures, Anya Sitaram
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
Being Indian
Speaker / Narrator
Anya Sitaram
Topic / Theme
Cities, Domestic life, Education, Indian people, Humanities, Jews, Mochica
Copyright Message
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Being Indian, Renuka's Story
produced by SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
Life is at a crossroads for Renuka Yenkoba, a 12-year-old girl. She and her family are from the lowest of India’s four main castes, the shudras or labourers. She is on the threshold of adolescence and that means she will soon be married. Even though it’s illegal in India for girls to marry before they are eigh...
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produced by SW Pictures, in Being Indian (London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 23 mins
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Life is at a crossroads for Renuka Yenkoba, a 12-year-old girl. She and her family are from the lowest of India’s four main castes, the shudras or labourers. She is on the threshold of adolescence and that means she will soon be married. Even though it’s illegal in India for girls to marry before they are eighteen, by that age virtually half of Indian woman already have a husband. Renuka is certain to be one of them.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
SW Pictures
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
Being Indian
Topic / Theme
Agrarian life, Domestic life, Education, Indian people, Women's health issues, Humanities, Jews
Copyright Message
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Calcutta Calling
produced by University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2004), 27 mins
A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a...
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produced by University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism (San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2004), 27 mins
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A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a stroke of luck. Adopted from Calcutta and raised in rural, Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, these girls and their adoptive parents are visi...
A white luxury tour bus squeezes its way through a narrow Calcutta alleyway as child beggars claw at the windows. The kids inside the bus look like Indian children, except for their Walkmans, hip hugger jeans and Caucasian American parents. They’re separated from the children on the street by a thin window and a stroke of luck. Adopted from Calcutta and raised in rural, Swedish-Lutheran Minnesota, these girls and their adoptive parents are visiting the girls’ country of birth for the first time. The film follows three families – hog farmers, lesbian moms and a girl who is the only “brown” kid in her high school – as they travel from the prairie to the crowded, urban chaos of Northern India. It’s a journey of friendship among Minnesota teenagers who find their reflection not only in the children on the street, but in each other.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Topic / Theme
Family, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Center for Asian American Media
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Destination: Tourism
directed by Dafna Kory, fl. 2007; produced by Dafna Kory, fl. 2007 (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2007), 20 mins,
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Bodh Gaya, the world's most popular destination of Buddhist pilgrimage, is located in one of India's poorest states. Visitors to this UNESCO World Heritage site are typically shocked by the extreme poverty there, and the Buddhist tradition of alms-giving motivates them to donate money. As a result, Bodh Gaya has d...
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directed by Dafna Kory, fl. 2007; produced by Dafna Kory, fl. 2007 (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2007), 20 mins,
Source: www.berkeleymedia.com
Source: www.berkeleymedia.com
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Bodh Gaya, the world's most popular destination of Buddhist pilgrimage, is located in one of India's poorest states. Visitors to this UNESCO World Heritage site are typically shocked by the extreme poverty there, and the Buddhist tradition of alms-giving motivates them to donate money. As a result, Bodh Gaya has developed a sophisticated charity 'industry' which caters to and depends on tourists and tourism. This thought-provoking documentary exp...
Bodh Gaya, the world's most popular destination of Buddhist pilgrimage, is located in one of India's poorest states. Visitors to this UNESCO World Heritage site are typically shocked by the extreme poverty there, and the Buddhist tradition of alms-giving motivates them to donate money. As a result, Bodh Gaya has developed a sophisticated charity 'industry' which caters to and depends on tourists and tourism. This thought-provoking documentary explores the complex, interconnected effects of tourism, globalization, culture, philanthropy, and religion in Bodh Gaya. Destination: Tourism provides a deeply perceptive and incisive ethnographic case study as well as a poignant illustration of the overwhelming challenges facing many of the world's poor as they struggle to eke out a living in a seasonal economy almost completely dependent on foreign tourists. As the film illuminates, the tourism economy's volatile nature provides only seasonal and temporary work for local residents: time in Bodh Gaya is measured by the coming and going of strangers. For four winter months there are tourists, and therefore work. The rest of the year is marked by desperate unemployment. In addition, dozens of foreign-owned and foreign-operated monasteries function like all-inclusive resorts, monopolizing tourism services. The monasteries also inflate real-estate values: when farmlands become monasteries, farmers must find a new livelihood. Survival has become a challenge for Bodh Gaya's residents. In the search for sustainable employment, entrepreneurial locals have established hundreds of charity schools for destitute children. These village schools are entirely funded by tourist donations and have become a not-to-be-missed point on the Bodh Gaya tourist itinerary. The mud-hut schools and their slate-and-chalk students have become a 'Kodak moment' for the visiting Buddhist pilgrims, and a means of livelihood for local residents. Destination: Tourism will generate thought and discussion in any course dealing with international development and globalization, as well as a variety of courses in cultural anthropology, Asian and Indian studies, tourist studies, and religious studies. It was produced by Dafna Kory. The DVD version of the film is fully authored by the filmmaker and includes menus and chapter headings.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Dafna Kory, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Dafna Kory, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Berkeley Media
Topic / Theme
Tourism industry, Poverty, Charity, Buddhism, Pilgrimage, Hindi
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 Berkeley Media
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Ganges: River to Heaven
directed by Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000; produced by Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000, Aerial Productions (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2005), 52 mins,
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This extraordinary documentary explores with unparalleled intimacy one of the most cherished of Hindu religious aspirations: to die in the city of Varanasi, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, in the faith that dying here assures liberation from the cycle of earthly life. In Varanasi (also called Kashi), the power...
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directed by Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000; produced by Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000, Aerial Productions (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2005), 52 mins,
Source: www.berkeleymedia.com
Source: www.berkeleymedia.com
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This extraordinary documentary explores with unparalleled intimacy one of the most cherished of Hindu religious aspirations: to die in the city of Varanasi, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, in the faith that dying here assures liberation from the cycle of earthly life. In Varanasi (also called Kashi), the power of Ganga, the Hindu mother-goddess of the Ganges River, is strongest. Each dawn she calls her children to the ghats, the steps leading...
This extraordinary documentary explores with unparalleled intimacy one of the most cherished of Hindu religious aspirations: to die in the city of Varanasi, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, in the faith that dying here assures liberation from the cycle of earthly life. In Varanasi (also called Kashi), the power of Ganga, the Hindu mother-goddess of the Ganges River, is strongest. Each dawn she calls her children to the ghats, the steps leading down to the water's edge. The young and strong purify themselves in the river's polluted waters. The old and the infirm, too weak for rituals, wait for death. In time, Ganga carries their souls, released from the bondage of reincarnation, to heaven. Their bodies, as ash afloat her crests or flesh submerged in her depths, return to the river. Shot in a hospice for the dying and on the ghats of Varanasi, the film follows four families' struggles to grant a loved one's final wish: to go to heaven. In their common quest the families become a fraction of the hordes of Hindus drawn to the city's holy promise of freedom from reincarnation. As the clans prepare for death, the citizens of Varanasi manage life -- praying for health, dumping industrial waste, begging for pocket change, bathing their children, selling to tourists, monitoring fecal chloroform levels, cremating their mothers -- along the banks of the Ganges. The four families' preparations go virtually unnoticed along the river, where death is a daily part of life. 'Ganges: River to Heaven' investigates the inextricable bond between the sacred river and its people with remarkable sensitivity and depth. From the ghat workers gathering wood for the next cremation, to the chemists gathering water samples for contamination-testing, each perspective sheds new light on India's evolving society and its unchanging veneration of the Ganges. The film also examines many viewpoints on the death process: the families who bring their beloved dying to Kashi Labh Mukti Bhavan, a hospice for the dying; the proprietors of the hospice and their understanding of the service they provide; and the workers and proprietors of the cremation grounds where the bodies are brought for final rites. Keenly observed and filled with unforgettable imagery of ceremonies, rituals, and daily life and death, 'Ganges: River to Heaven' sheds a profoundly revealing light on the sacred river, polluted from years of overuse, and wonders if the natural force strong enough to sculpt the peaks of the Himalayas and the beliefs of a nation will survive the adoration of generations to come. This illuminating film will engage and challenge students and generate thought and discussion in a wide variety of courses in Asian and Indian studies, cultural anthropology, religion, death and dying, and environmental studies. It was produced by award-winning filmmaker Gayle Ferraro (see also 'Anonymously Yours' and 'Sixteen Decisions').
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000, Aerial Productions
Author / Creator
Gayle Ferraro, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Berkeley Media
Topic / Theme
Hinduism, Religious beliefs, Death, Hospices, Hindustani
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 Berkeley Media
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Iconic India, Episode 2, Episode 2
produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in Iconic India, Episode 2 (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2019), 23 mins
Karnataka in South West India, a region that has been largely overlooked by visitors until recently, is today turning into a global hotspot for tourists.
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produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in Iconic India, Episode 2 (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2019), 23 mins
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Karnataka in South West India, a region that has been largely overlooked by visitors until recently, is today turning into a global hotspot for tourists.
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Cable News Network (CNN)
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Cable News Network (CNN)
Series
Iconic India
Topic / Theme
Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 CNN Newsource Sales, Inc.
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Jagdi-Pat Temple: Ceremony For Peace And Harmony On Earth, Part 1
produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972 (Privately Published, 1986), 13 mins
This video produced by Barrie Machin features festival for peace and harmony held every 90 years at the Jagdipat Temple, Naggar Castle Kullu Valley.
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produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972 (Privately Published, 1986), 13 mins
Description
This video produced by Barrie Machin features festival for peace and harmony held every 90 years at the Jagdipat Temple, Naggar Castle Kullu Valley.
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Barrie Machin, fl. 1972
Author / Creator
Barrie Machin, fl. 1972
Date Published / Released
1986
Publisher
Privately Published
Topic / Theme
Religious rites and ceremonies, Hindu, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1986 Barrie Machin
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Jagdi-Pat Temple: Ceremony For Peace And Harmony On Earth, Part 2
produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972 (Privately Published, 1986), 19 mins
This video produced by Barrie Machin features festival for peace and harmony held every 90 years at the Jagdipat Temple, Naggar Castle Kullu Valley.
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produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972 (Privately Published, 1986), 19 mins
Description
This video produced by Barrie Machin features festival for peace and harmony held every 90 years at the Jagdipat Temple, Naggar Castle Kullu Valley.
Date Written / Recorded
1986-08
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Barrie Machin, fl. 1972
Date Published / Released
1986
Publisher
Privately Published
Topic / Theme
Religious rites and ceremonies, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1986 Barrie Machin
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