Stories of the Anglo Indian community and its fraught future.

Directed by Sonata Gay Dkhar | 2015
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Sonata Dkhar graduated in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. She received the Panos South Asia Grant for Climate Change Reporting, to study the impact of coal mining in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, during which time she co-directed the documentary, All Not Lost…The Pnar Story. Based in Shillong, she runs a production house.

Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....

PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., https://www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)

PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.

Credits
Cinematographers: Gautam Syiem, Dondor Lyngdoh
Sound Recordist: Vivek Das
Editor: Sonata Dkhar

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: June 2020