Invisible Minority
Movies
0.5 hrs
October 07, 2017 12:00 pm Saturday

In 2016, I shot and directed a film titled An Invisible Minority - Rationalists in Contemporary India. The film is in interview format and tries to engage in larger philosophical debates around Rationalism. It was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and was screened on Doordarshan last year. Therefore, the film relies on interviews and television style conversations.

While the film begins by talking about the murders of Rationalists in the recent past, the crux of the film is to understand the idea of Rationalism - what are its motivations in an overtly religious country like India? Its history and current status.

Promo of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw_f74AEtM

The film was screened in Bangalore and Delhi. But, in the wake of Gauri Lankesh's death, I wish to screen the film in as many locations as possible.

This is my minute contribution to ensure dissent and rational thought are not silenced.

Organizer
Raksha Kumar
Raksha Kumar is a multimedia journalist focusing on human rights, politics and gender. In the past six years, she has reported for the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, TIME, Foreign Affairs, The Hindu, Caravan and Scroll among others. A Fulbright scholar, she graduated from Columbia University in 2011. As a Chevening fellow in 2015, she researched right wing ideology among South Asians in the UK. She has reported from 12 countries including Israel and the West Bank. For the past two years, I has worked in Chhattisgarh and Kashmir attempting to uncover the State's overreach and its impact on residents. In March 2016, she was awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding media personality. Her work lies at at the subtle intersection of law, economy and politics.