To deal with a disaster, every department of the Govt. is expected to act quickly and fast. Every hour lost may have a repercussion. Three months is a long time. All you have to do is to select good films on disasters. Somebody like Amudhan can do it in one week. All you have to do is to make an appeal to the delegates. Participation of 10,000 delegates is certainly a great number. If fisher people can contribute to deal with the sufferings of people affected by the disaster, so can the delegates. The argument for cancelling the film festival could be two: One, on moral grounds and two on financial grounds. The moral ground may not hold, since such a film festival could be used as a ground for discussion on disasters as well as generating national and international support for the disaster. The financial ground will also does not hold. The expenses of the film festival is too small when compared to the expenses of dealing with the disaster. These 10,000 delegates have more power and resources than the poor fisher people who helped. Many national and international delegates have enough resources. I wouldn't be surprised if proper intervention is made, this film festival can raise a hundred times more than the investment on the festival. What is required is intelligent and urgent action with proper media and public support. Last but not the least, such move would make a film festival more `relevant'.
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:50 PM KP Sasi <[email protected]> wrote: > Kerala has faced one of the worst disasters in history. It is so obvious > that there is not much money to deal with the disaster. I believe that the > Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has been trying to deal with the situation > with his best intentions and efforts. This disaster has also brought > together many people of different colours on humanitarian interests. > However, there is one person who does not deserve the linguistic > description of being `humanitarian'. The chicken shit he has offered can > not even rehabilitate a portion of the victims and environment of > Kuttanad. After all he is an elected Prime Minister. He has a moral > responsibility to deal with the situation irrespective of political > differences. But his response was pathetic. Perhaps the intention could be > to beat a left wing Government with a disaster once again. All Malayalees > have understood this game, despite all our political differences. But the > cheapest thing which the Central Government has done is to block even > international support for this disaster. On the one hand, you don't do your > duty. On the other hand, you are blocking humanitarian support from other > countries. Irrespective of linguistic, caste, religious, racial and > political differences, this attitude has to be condemned by every > humanitarian citizen in this country. I would also appeal to the Chief > Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to rethink about dropping the Kerala > International Film Festival considering the gravity of the disaster. > However, an intelligent move would be to use the Kerala International Film > Festival as a ground for International Campaign on these issues and to > strengthen the humanitarian activities that are going on today in Kerala.. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FEC-Fourth Estate Critique" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fourth-estate-critique > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
