Bahujan Art Festival is an initiative to give platform to the artists from the marginal Bahujan community, to express their Challenges, Struggles and Success. This Video is a documentation of the event which happened in the TISS Mumbai Campus on 16th of December. Video Documentation: Nikhil Latagajanan. {youtube}Dsuz7nG3CmI{/youtube} ~~~ [Via Somnath Waghamare]
Documentary on Gail Omvedt-Bharat Patankar: An Appeal for Crowdfunding
Somnath Waghamare I am Somnath Waghamare, a documentary filmmaker and a research scholar at the School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before this, I have worked at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. I am associated with the anti-caste, progressive and social movement in Maharashtra. I am interested …
Somnath Waghamare’s ‘Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey’
Rohan Arthur Last week, I went to watch Somnath Waghamare’s film, ‘The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey’ at Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. This was the second screening of the film, after the first being screened at FTII, Pune. The 50 minute documentary is only one part of the viewing experience. The post-film …
On Making a Documentary Film about Bhima Koregaon
Somnath Waghamare Dear friends, Jai Bhim. Finally, my documentary film on Bhima Koregaon has been completed with your kind support. In the last six months of my filmmaking journey, I have had a lot of good and bad experiences. A lot of friends on Facebook and elsewhere ask me one question: why am I …
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey
Somnath Waghamare I am Somnath Waghamare, a Graduate in Sociology and Post Graduate in Media studies from Sangli, Maharashtra, India. The past few years I have been working with the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and currently as an apprentice with a Human Rights Organisation in Bangalore. I am associated with the progressive, Ambedkarite Dalit social …