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Death from being rich grows in India
A young Indian girl prepares meal at a slum in Jammu, India, Monday, March 26, 2012. <AP/Newsis> Man is not immortal. As we know it, there are two kinds of deaths. One that comes naturally due to terminal disease or old age and the other that is inflicted by economic…
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Beyond Prayer
*This film about receding Glaciers directed by Neelima, SPOTFILMS is available on vimeo link. The north Indian region of Ladakh is a barren, rocky and cold desert. The biggest problem for those people is like it is in any desert – shortage of water. For many years, Chewang Norphel(75, Ladakh, North India), saw…
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A journey to meet people in memories
LOOK AT MY INDIA from SPOTFILMS by PRAMOD MATHUR, DIRECTOR & NEELIMA MATHUR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Whatever it maybe, there are people one cannot forget. Again and again, as I travelled across India, I have seen abject poverty and compulsions that have induced a kind of fate with no choices in…
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Plight of HIV infected in India
<Video: Pramod Mathur> Summary of three anecdotes in the video: It is about people living with AIDS in Nizamabad, Hyderabad, India. Part1 Manjula Manjula whose father, mother constructed the house, and after her father’s death they lost everything. Her husband was a truck driver, they got married 15 years back…
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The Legacy
By and large, the so-called television ‘news’ channels in India have their own mind…when choosing to focus on a story… no matter what is happening around the world or the country. Surprisingly, the other day, while surfing news channels, I came across a gentleman from Odisha, interacting with the anchor…
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