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A few more questions
The film about the nation-wide railway strike in May 1974. TheThe director of S. Sukhdev goes around to personally interviewacross section society - workers, coal miners railway authorities,executive in steel plants, railway commuters, etc. to elicit…
Tags: India, Indira Gandhi, Railway Strike
A painter of our time
A film on the painter M.F. Hussain who is shown illustrating the epic of Ramayana. Hussain has been working on this series for the past three years in the house of Badrivishal Pittie, his friend and patron in the city of Hyderabad..
Tags: Art, Culture, India, M.F. Hussain
A village smiles
Discussing the impact of the big dams in the country on the common farmers.
Tags: 1971, Agriculture, Dams, Indira Gandhi
A voyage of discovery
This film tries to interlace Mahatma Gandhiji’s thoughts with the developments in India as seen by the two Gandhi Darshan Trains which traversed the whole country during the Gandhi Centenary Year.
Tags: Development, Gandhi, Gandhi Centenary Year, Gandhi Darshan, India, Progress, Trains
After the silence
The film revealing how in the past exploitative landlords and usurersalways kept the poor farmers as their bonded labourers. But now these farmers are free, thanks to the implementation of the 20-Point Programme declared by the Prime Minister, late…
Tags: 20 Point Programme, Emergency, India, Indira Gandhi
Amir Khusro
The son of a Turkish nobleman, Amir Khusro was born in Patiali village of Etah district (now in Uttar Pradesh). He was a poet, philosopher and musician whose contributions to music were as important as his contributions to language and literature.…
Tags: Amir Khusro, Culture, India, Music, Sufism
Angle of the triangle
A colour cartoon on the importance of Family Planning for healthy children.
Tags: Family Planning, India, Population Control
Bastra - rhythms of progress
Bastar is as old as the hills. As legend says, it is a part of theDandakarnaya mentioned by Valmiki in Ramayana. This is the biggestdistrict in Asia - 15,224 sq. miles in area, inhabited by about amillion of tribals known as Marias, Halwas, Payas,…
Tags: Bastar, Chhatisgarh, India, Rural Development