India Untouched: Darker side of India: 1 [HQ]

NOTE: FOR ALL THOSE WHO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF UNTOUCHABLITY IN INDIA

INDIA UNTOUCHED will make it impossible for anyone in India to deny that Untouchability is still practiced today. Director Stalin K. and his team spent four years traveling the length and breadth of India to bear witness to the continued exclusion and segregation of those considered as 'Untouchables' .

The film introduces leading Benares scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits 'have no right' to education, and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities on Dalits. The film captures many 'firsts-on-film, ' such as Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles and remove their shoes when in the upper caste part of the village.

It exposes the continuation of caste practices and Untouchability in Sikhism, Christianity and Islam, amongst the Communists in Kerala and within some of India's most revered academic and professional institutions.

In an age where the media projects only one image of a 'rising' or 'poised' India, this film reminds us how far the country is from being an equal society. Traveling through eight states and four religions, this film is perhaps the deepest exploration of caste oppression ever undertaken on film.

Stalin K is a human rights activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the Co-Founder of DRISHTI- Media, Arts and Human Rights, Convener of the Community Radio Forum-India, and the India Director of Video Volunteers. He is a renowned public speaker and has lectured or taught at over 20 institutions ranging from the National Institute of Design and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, to New York University and Stanford and Berkeley in the US.

INDIA UNTOUCHED is Stalin's second film on the issue of caste -- his earlier film 'Lesser Humans', on manual scavenging, won the Silver Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Excellence Award at Earth Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, and helped to bring international attention to the issue of caste.

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[CyberSetan]

14:10  - "Purely scientific system" my ass~

[shjakes]

@CyberSetan I am speechless…although I knew about the system long ago I thought it was eradicated like 'sutee'.This is a vicious kind of discrimination which can only be tolerated by truly ignorant people, so now the conspiracy is to prevent the children from gaining a proper education. Who'd ever think that upper caste Indians (Hindus) could remind me of racist 'red neck' Americans?

[VolcardoReviewer]

those kids at the 20:00 mark are innocent. damn it sucks they had to be born in such a shit hole.

[IndigoPriest]

think of how quickly the whole country would change if every woman withheld sex from men in that country till something changed. this practice has been done in other countries to affect social change. WOMEN UNITE!

[IndigoPriest]

@shjakes did Jesus lie to the thief or to Mary? by no means. a comma was added to the text in the 14th century when the comma was invented to fit the translators concept of the bible. the same misinterpretations hold in prophecy. when analyzed correctly from many peoples perspective prophecy shines out the truth. for instance Daniels seventy week prophecy is about Jesus but modern interpretation says it is the anti-christ. how can this be? Satan works hard to destroy the Bible

[IndigoPriest]

@shjakes for instance the bible never connects soul "nephesh" with the description Immortal. so how can non christians burn in hell forever? peter says that God alone is immortal. there are many apparent contradictions in the bible that people point out in arguments. these were created over time and in translation. for instance how can Jesus say to the thief on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise" when 2 days later he tells mary he has not yet ascended to the father?

[IndigoPriest]

@shjakes it may seem barbaric to us americans, but they think that when we drink the blood of christ we are barbaric. it is all a matter of perspective... it is a matter of their religion. we think they are wrong in their beliefs and they think we are wrong in our beliefs. so the question is who is correct? and how does one proove this? the greatest proof that the bible is true is the sure word of prophecy. sadly it has been twisted to fit exactly this point of view people pronounce.

[gawagney]

@mail2shiva123 'Enumerate' means to make a list. You may mean, 'Eradicate'? To get rid of.