| In India Saathin Means Friend |
Indian filmmaker T. Jayashree presents the impact of cultural and social traditions on the lives and destinies of Indian women. She begins with the story of Bhanwari, who was gang-raped by five men in her village when she tried to stop a child marriage. Bhanwari's case and other stories illustrate the tensions in a society resistant to change in its centuries-old traditions and customs.
In India Saathin Means Friend was produced and Narrated by Indian Film Maker Jayashree. The co-producers were Maria Nicolo and Jenna Hearns. The sound engineer was Robin Wise. This program was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Links:
Women Criticize Police Chief
Indian women lash out against the police's suggestion that women were attracting violence by the way they dress and behave.
Child Marriages, Though Illegal, Persist in India
New York Times article chronicling the on-going practice of child marriages in rural northern India.
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Bawandar
Read the review for this film, inspired by the true story of Bhanwari Devi, a social worker raped for trying to stop child marriages in her village. Bhanwari's story is featured in the program.
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 Don't Marry Me to a Plowman!: Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India
by: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery 1996
Stories from the everyday lives of eight Hindu and Muslim women in India expose the diversity of concerns facing Indian women and the range of roles they fill in addressing those concerns.
 May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey among the Women of India
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A deep look into the lives of women in India, touching on arranged marriage, motherhood, marital rights, and health issues.
 Arranged Marriage: Stories
by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 1996
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 Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death, and Female Infanticide in Modern India
by: Mala Sen 2002
A study of life and death for the women of Rajasthan, the province where the gang rape of Bhanwari Devi took place.
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