Here is the text + the trailer about the Gulabi gang!
Sohum Shah presents Nishtha Jain’s multiple award winning documentary Gulabi Gang. The film is being theatrically released in India by PVR Director’s Rare on 21st February, 2014.
In 2006 an extraordinary women’s movement started in the Bundelkhand region, What started as a small movement in one of the poorest districts of Uttar Pradesh has now spread across whole of North India and has even gained recognition the world over. The group is known as the Gulabi Gang .These women were tired of a corrupt judicial system which refused to take up cases of abused women and finally when nothing was happening, they took matters in their own hands and solved cases..
Here is the worksheet you have to fill in + the 3 videos you must watch for Friday to introduce notion 4!
1. The plight of Indian women: CNN’s Sumnima Udas examines the cycle of discrimination against women in India.
2. Violence against women in India -three things to know (Council on Foreign Relations): A brutal New Delhi gang rape has triggered outrage across India. CFR’s Isobel Coleman highlights three things to know about the case, and discusses the larger issue of violence against women in the country:
3. India is a dangerous place to be a woman (Euronews)
And here is the correction! Sorry again for being absent on Friday!
Here is a short text about SB1070 + a cartoon de descrbe and analyse for next lesson!
And here is the link to the video we watched in class + a recap in English
https://youtu.be/miaJk7OcPv8
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