Successful screening of two documentary films on Nepali issues - Border Encroachment and Girls Trafficking. Central London, Saturday 2nd December

Attended by over 40 people, including notable academics including as Prof Michael Hutt and Prof Surya Subedi, two documentaries – “Greater Nepal: In quest of boundary" (www.greaternepal.com) - and "The Day My God Died" (http://www.thedaymygoddied.com) were premiered at the Central London Vermont Square Campus of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on Saturday 2nd December 2006. For the First documentary, screened as part of the anniversary of the Saugali Treaty signed on 2nd December 1815 AD, the filmmaker - Manoj Pundit went back in time some 200 years to uncover Nepal's history when its boundaries extended to Tista in the east and Sutlej in the west, and how even to this day, Nepal’s border is slowly being encroached by India, much to the detriment of the local people who reside in the borders.

The Second Emmy-nominated documentary, sponsored by the US-based NGO – Friends of Maiti Nepal (http://www.friendsofmaitinepal.org/) presented the stories of young girls in Nepal whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade and weaves their stories of stolen hopes and dreams, into an unforgettable examination of the growing plague of child sex slavery in the South Asian continent. The film also introduces us to the heroes of the movement to abolish child sex slavery - non-profit organizations such as Maiti Nepal which rescue and care for former sex slaves.  

Both films were greatly applauded by the audiences, and the combination of two films had a powerful effect - apparent by the collective silence for a while at the end of the screenings. The audiences’ responses verged from ‘Excellent’ and ‘Moving’ to ‘Powerful’ and ‘Stimulating’.

Hatterika.com would like to thank Purnima Joshi, Pratima Joshi and Jitendra Raut for coordinating the pictures.

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