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Journalism is a Kind of Filmmaking

Journalism is a Kind of Filmmaking Journalism is one of the earliest forms of filmmaking, as films started off with documentation and observation, said award-winning screenwriter, director and producer Megha Ramaswamy, at Newsreel...Read More  
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Leopard in the Neighbourhood

Newsreel I January 2022
Video I 9 Minutes
By Richard Kujur, Jessica Goel
 Sarveshwar Prasad?s family is among the very few people in his village in northern India?s Uttarakhand state who have not migrated away out of fear of leopards. These wild cats are often seen...Read More  
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A Cry for Dignity

Newsreel I December 2021
Video I 13 Minutes
By Richard Kujur, Jessica Goel
 Kamal Masih, a lawyer practising in a region near India?s border with Pakistan, has represented many victims of discrimination and violence against Dalit Christians in Punjab state. However, Hindu...Read More  
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Why are Minorities Attacked in India?

INVESTIGATION I December 2021
Video I 21 Minutes
By Harshita Rathore, Jyoti Jangra, Tej Bahadur Singh

 About 200 people barged into a church in Roorkee city?s Solanipuram area in Uttarakhand state on Oct. 3, vandalised its property and beat up Christians, including women. When the Christians filed a...Read More  
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West Bengal’s Submerged Villages

Newsreel I December 2021
Video I 13 Minutes
By Jessica Goel
 Millions of people in India?s West Bengal state have been facing the brunt of meandering rivers for years. Over the last decade, entire villages living on ?Charlands? ? river islands that emerge as...Read More  
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Women Rise Up

Newsreel I October 2021
Video I 9 Minutes
By Surabhi Singh
 Women from rural India assemble in a village in the north Indian state of Haryana to take an oath, and declare, that they will not marry, or allow other women in their families to do so, before...Read More  
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Lives on Fire

Newsreel I October 2021
Video I 14 Minutes
By Tej Bahadur Singh
 A seven-year-old girl witnesses her mother?s death after a portion of land caves in, burying her under debris in Jharia coalfields in India's Jharkhand state, where an underground fire has been...Read More  
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Why are Universities Under Attack?

Newsreel I October 2021
Video I 26 Minutes
By Asad Ashraf, Tej Bahadur Singh
 Prof. Apoorvanand from Delhi University speaks to Newsreel Asia?s Asad Ashraf on the idea of university and why and how universities are under attack in India.
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Ashiyana

Newsreel I September 2021
Video I 33 Minutes
By Jessica Goel, Richard Kujur
 Mohammed Arif, a resident of Khori Gaon village in the northern state of Haryana, awaits the demolition of his house, just as more than 100,000 other area residents do after the Supreme Court of...Read More  
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Kashmiriyat Fractured

Newsreel I September 2021
Video I 24 Minutes
 By Ganesh Rajaraman, Jessica Goel, Surabhi Singh Three decades after his brutal displacement, Rajinder Koul Premi, a Hindu from Kashmir, is still looking for answers, especially what led to the collapse of the region?s syncretic society? Will he...Read More  
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Show Me the Way Home

Newsreel I August 2021
Video I 15 Minutes
By Asad Ashraf, Tej Bahadur Singh
 A young Rohingya man, Ali Johar, fled persecution in Myanmar?s Rakhine state and later made his way to India, as he had heard that Indian people and their government were kind-hearted. Did he, and...Read More  
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‘D’ for Dowry

Newsreel I August 2021
Video I 10 Minutes
By Abhishek Yadav, Mariya Rajan
 Awadh Kishore and Draupadi Kumari, a couple from northern India?s Bundelkhand agricultural region, are not only unable to sustain their family financially but also need to arrange large sums of...Read More  
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The Curious Case of Water Crisis

Newsreel I July 2021
Video I 13 Minutes
By Richard Kujur, Jessica Goel
 The lives of the people from a small community in Delhi revolve around waiting for the water truck ? their only source of water ? to arrive. It?s supposed to come daily, but it doesn?t.
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Lives at Risk

Newsreel I July 2021
Video I 10 Minutes
By Asad Ashraf, Surabhi Singh
 Kaazim Ahmad, a 62-year-old man, is stripped and beaten with a blunt object due to his Muslim identity in Noida city near Delhi.
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On Election Duty

Newsreel I June 2021
Video I 9 Minutes
By Tej Bahadur Singh
 A tragedy strikes Mahima Gupta after her husband, Neeraj Gupta, a government employee, is sent on election duty amid a raging pandemic.
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Deepak Kumar Nehra

Newsreel, June 2021
Video I 12 Minutes
By Abhishek Yadav
 Deepak Kumar Nehra, a farmer from the northern Haryana state, is on his way to Delhi to join the farmers? protest to express solidarity with fellow farmers speaking out against three new farm laws,...Read More  
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Selfless Service

Newsreel I May 2021
Video I 14 Minutes
By Surabhi Singh, Abhishek Yadav At the height of the COVID-19 infections and deaths in India, a Sikh group, called Hemkunt Foundation, together with young volunteers, save lives amid what is being seen as a gross neglect by the government.
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The Curious Case of Power Cuts

Newsreel I May 2021
Video I 9 Minutes
By Richard Kujur, Jessica Goel
 Despite being a power ?surplus? country, India has many parts that experience power cuts. India adds to its generating capacity every year but the effort appears to be futile.
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Help Never Arrived

Newsreel I May 2021
Video I 15 Minutes
By Richard Kujur, Jessica Goel
 A young journalist, Rahul Suryawanshi, shares about the efforts he made to save the life of his father, Toran Singh Suryawanshi, a government school teacher who gets infected with COVID-19 after going on a vaccine-awareness duty.
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What are Hospitals Hiding?

Newsreel I May 2021
Video I 10 Minutes
By Abhishek Yadav, Surabhi Singh
 While relatives of COVID-19 patients complain hospitals are not giving any information except the news of them passing away, doctors at the government-run Meerut Medical College in Uttar Pradesh...Read More  
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Life in a Village

Newsreel I May 2021
Video I 11 Minutes
By Abhishek Yadav, Surabhi Singh
 The second wave of the coronavirus in India appears to be beginning to subside in cities, but the spread of COVID-19, it seems, is shifting to villages, which look even more unprepared (than cities) to deal with the crisis.

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