Film:Talking Writing April 20, 2009

Film screening followed by a conversation with Mahasweta Devi - a very personal documentary attempting to explore the relationship that Mahasweta Devi enjoys with the lives and the people that fuel her activism and how this amazingly vital tapestry forms the terrain of her writing.

In a series of four conversations with her publisher and friend Naveen Kishore, she revisits her life in a travelogue that weaves in and out of her story—a young woman writer trying to make her mark in a male-dominated publishing world, coming of age both as a wife and a mother, her relationship with her once-estranged son—and the story of a nation in the throes of a freedom struggle, the realization that freedom is a privilege for the haves while the have-nots merely change masters in their struggle against slavery, the choice to actively oppose all that reeks of injustice, to record through her journalism and her fiction the less-than-human life of the tribals she has spent all her life fighting for, to remember the shoulder-to-shoulder camaraderie of the left . . .

55 mins, colour, English subtitles.
Direction and Cinematography: Pushan Kripalani
Produced by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts
Contact 26149546.

Entry: Free