Gargi sen

Gargi Sen studied design at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and later completed her Masters in Mass Communication from the Leicester University. In the mid-eighties she began to work with media with marginalised communities and took to making documentaries on social issues and showing films to a cross-section of the society. She is one of the founders of Magic Lantern Foundation and a teacher of mass communications.

Films with Under Construction

a healer is born

Good health, self help and sisterhood. Why does this bother the brotherhood?

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ballad of builders

Construction workers draft a Bill that is never implemented.

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because of our rights

A film on forest, forest dwellers and forest rights.

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carrying their voices

An experience of innovative use of video by an NGO in Rajasthan.

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goa under siege

How large scale tourism impacts on the economy, ecology and culture of the hosts.

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in search of green gold

Relationship of tribes with forests and their search of an identity.

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of hosts and hostages

When tourism becomes a destructive invader.

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out of the shadows

A film on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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the (t)error of pota

A public tribunal calls to put an end to a draconian security legislation.

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where healing is a tradition

A film on those invisible women practicing folk medicine.

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