Topic: Documentary

"It is my job. My ancestors did this before me. We don’t have the luxury of thinking," says Pawan Choudhary, a cremation worker from the Dom community, as he reflects on his work, in the documentary Wounds of Pyre—Inside the Minds of Cremation Workers. But how did this work become the community’s identity? Directed by Babita Gautam and Sahil Valmiki, the documentary film seeks to answer this unsettling question.

The documentary follows Khurram Muraad's journey to uncover the traumatic memories of Hyderabad's annexation (Police Action) in 1948.

A recently released documentary from Maktoob Originals, titled 'Hindutva Pandemic,' exposes the role of Hindutva in inciting the 2022 unrest in the city of Leicester, UK.

“Gauri,” a documentary based on slain journalist Gauri Lankesh, directed by her sister Kavitha Lankesh, has won the “Best Long Documentary Award” at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2023.

Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani was a professor at Zakir Hussain College, Delhi University. He was convicted for his alleged role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and sentenced to death by the trial court. Later, Delhi High Court acquitted him of all draconian charges in 2003, after 18 months of imprisonment.

The biggest violence on the Adivasi Christians and Dalit Christians took place in August 2008 in Kandhamal. The survivors of Kandhamal violence are still struggling against improper compensation, rehabilitation, and justice delivery systems.