A Pestering Journey
- Documentary/66 minutes/2010/English,Malayalam,Tulu, Hindi, Punjabi Director K R Manoj's well-paced journey through the remnants of two Pesticide tragedies in India leaves the viewers with distrubing images of the long term effects of using harmful chemicals for farming. In addition, it also provides the people with a new found energy to fight for their earth.The documentary, which will be screened outside the 2011 Geneva convention in Stockholm (Conference Of Parties), is an invaluable asset to the Indian environmentalists who are fighting the indian politicians in an effort to enforce a global ban on harmful pesticides like endosulfan. The movie first explores the "Cancer Train"- A train whose majority of passengers are patients who travel back and forth from Bhatinda to Bikaner for their cancer treatments. As a part of Green Revolution, a large amount of chemical pesticides were used in the southern Punjab in its cotton belt. Over a period of time, continuous expo...