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Nero's Guests

Nero's Guests
Deepa Bhatia, Deepa Bhatia
India
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Nearly 200.000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this.Nero´s Guests is a story about India's agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, P Sainath. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act.Through his writings and lectures, Sainath tries to make us see the real India, and provokes us to think who are the 'Nero's Guests' in today's world.

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Director
Co-production
    Steps India,
    Oktober Oy
    Steps India,
    Oktober Oy
Involved TV Channel
    ARTE G.E.I.E.,
    YLE
    ARTE G.E.I.E.,
    YLE
Distribution Benelux
    Jan Vrijman Fund
    Jan Vrijman Fund