Rebecca Ochoa
| Jan/16 | Wed | 04:30PM-06:00PM | Stella Room (7-338) |
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"The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development"
January 16, 2013 4:30pm-6pm
Stella Room (MIT Building 7-338)
Speaker: Priyanka Borpujari
Priyanka Borpujari will discuss her featured photography exhibit “The Human Cost of India’s Race for Development” displayed in Rotch Library's (7-228) exhibition space.
While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India a superpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers - even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the 'hidden civil war in India', Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, reports and photographs from the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.
A reception and tour of the exhibit will follow the discussion.
Cosponsored by MIT Center for International Studies, MIT-India and MIT Libraries
The event was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT India Program, Libraries
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, ROCHOA@MIT.EDU