US filmmaker arrives to document farmers' agitation

Jhajjar, December 4

American filmmaker and former NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain on Saturday reached the Tikri border to shoot a documentary on the ongoing farmers’ protest.

Welcoming the team, SKM leader and Kirti Kisan Union vice-president Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala said Pain was a globally acclaimed film director and he had already made a film during the protest against the devastating state of American farmers caused by corporates.

“They firmly supported the farmers’ movement in India. The protest has made a global outreach. Also, the farmers’ victory has become a beacon of hope for the people fighting against capitalism, which is why filmmakers, research scholars and intellectuals are reaching the protest site to learn and write/document this historic movement,” he added.

Pain and assistant Srishti Aggarwal revealed that in America, on an average farmers had 150 acres but the corporates had looted their land and food security by acquiring it. “In the same way, dairy farming has been destroyed by the corporates. There may not be any peasant household in America where suicides have not been reported,” they added. — TNS