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Activist Revisits Prison Diaries

Activist Revisits Prison Diaries

by The Daily Eye Team November 22 2016, 2:37 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of all charges, spoke about spending close to five years in prison. While in jail, Ferriera sketched scenes of prison life, which was later transformed into a searing memoir, 'Colours of the Cage'.
Ferreira explained that he wrote the memoir because often people are complacent as they believe there are rules guiding all processes in a democracy. "But often, these rules are unreasonable and inhumane," he explained.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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