Dear Friends,
It is very innovative and path breaking work what Stalin and Drishti are
doing in Gujarat. More than that it takes lot of courage too to do what they
are doing. 'Nazariya' is very good long term attempt to build a civil
society of socially responsible and beyond biases, especially of parochial
and sectarian.
'Bol' is against violence against women. But it doesn't matter to these
forces of sectarian ideology, they only want their ideas to prevail. These
forces are there all over- all places and of all colours. One even see in
full colour in our state too. From left to right.
Let us all support Drishti, the young people of Nazariya and Stalin.
In Solidarity,
K.C. Santhosh Kumar
On 9/14/07, Ramachandran G P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
Yesterday the VHP has attacked a film screening in ahmedabad. We should
issue a public protest statement asap. best,
G P Ramachandran
here is the info on the attack:
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the self appointed moral police, has sunk to
new
levels of intolerance. On September 13, about 15-20 hooligans charged in
the
college room of L abd C Mehta Arts College during the screening of 'Bol',
a
series of short films on women's rights. The screening was part of
Nazariya,
an activity promoted by Drishti in about 20 colleges of Ahmedabad. As part
of this activity students are shown documentaries on various social issues
followed by a discussion. Today's screening, that was disrupted, was
followed by a discussion with Stalin K, a leading human rights activist
and
documentary film maker.
About 25 students and three lecturers had just finished seeing the film
and
Stalin was discussing various aspects of patriarchy and gender when
suddenly
15-20 hooligans, who clearly did not look like students or faculty of the
college, charged into the room and started threatening Stalin and demanded
to know what was being shown and discussed. The lecturers present there
tried to reason with the hooligans that they were not doing anything
against
any particular person or group. The hooligans then wanted to see the film
to
which Stalin said that that would not be possible. He told them that they
had no right to come in and distrupt a lecture or demand to see the film.
One lecturer pacified the hooligans and took them out of the classroom.
Meanwhile, Stalin continued with the discussion with the
students.Incidentally, the subjecy of discussion just before the hooligans
barged in
was 'fear' and fear inhibits us to struggle or attempt any change in
oppressive customs or traditions. About 5 minutes later the hooligans
barged
in again and came menacingly towards Stalin and demanded the DVD. Stalin
refused to give it to them and told them that they could buy a copy from
the
office if need be. They threatened him with 'dire consequencies' if he did
not give them the DVD and started pulling at the DVD and pushing him
around.
Meanwhile, Gaurang, coordinator of Nazariya, had called the Police Control
room. The hooligans then snatched the DVD from Stalin's hands and, as they
have won a war, shouted 'jai shree ram' and charged out of the room and
campus.
Police reached the college immediately but by that time the hooligans had
already left. The police asked Stalin and Gaurang to go to Navrangpura
Police Station if they wanted to file an FIR. However, Stalin and Gaurang
had to wait for nearly 3 hours before the police finally registered a
complain against two of 20 hooligans - Rahul Soni and Bharat.
--
In Peace,
Gaurang Bharti Raval
Drishti Media,Arts Human Rights
103, Anandhari Towers,
Sandeshpress Road,
Bodakdev, Ahmedabad. India.380054
www.drishtimedia.org
Tel : 91-79-26851235
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