Centre for South Asian Studies

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Hosted by the Social Justice, Cultural and Historical Geography Research Groups in association with the Centre for South Asian Studies. 

Join us for a special screening of Seed Stories, followed by a discussion with acclaimed director, Chitrangada Choudhury.

Chitrangada Choudhury is a journalist and documentary filmmaker and currently she is doing her PhD in Geography at the University of Zurich. Her reportage on the environment, social justice and rural, in particular Adivasi, communities has been cited for multiple awards including the Sanskriti Foundation Award, the Press Council of India’s National Award for Investigative Reporting, and the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize twice. She has been on the founding team of The People's Archive of Rural India, and is on the Editorial Board of Article 14 - two award-winning digital outlets exploring questions of knowledge, power, justice and marginality. Her research has appeared in journals and edited volumes including Elementa – Science of the Anthropocene, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Economic & Political Weekly, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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