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Paani: Guns Surrounding the Water I tell my friends in New York that this time will be looked upon in history as a time when the luxury of water being piped to your homes still existed. It won’t happen again. Why are You Drinking Bottled Water? I was sitting in my office in Mumbai and this beautiful package arrived -- it is obviously a great sales brochure. I opened this beautiful package and I realize it is from a world-famous brand of water. In Mumbai, a place where people can barely afford to eat, they had sent to me one small bottle of this bottled water, beautifully packaged, as a present. Motorcyling Across India to Discover Water's Meaning Every year, over 500,000 children in India never reach the age of 5 because of water-related diseases like diarrhea, gastroenteritis, hepatitis. Over 300 million Indians have no access to toilets. Paani - Will Water Turn Against Us? We have forgotten how to worship water. After all if water is available to you on tap, and in the same place as you do your daily toilette , how could you even respect it ? Water to us has become functional - so we have started to take it for granted. It is now our right to have water running in our taps at our will and our command. Thoughts on Water Three years ago, before I started on my film, Elizabeth: the Golden Age, I began to compile pictures of people who live on the streets and under the new highways that are mushrooming all over our cities. Pictures that would help in the research for what conditions are likely to be for people who live on the streets and in water deprived conditions. |
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In this blog, I display my own photos and discuss issues involving water that have inspired Paani ("Water"), a film I am developing to examine the daily struggle for water in the slums of Mumbai.
Shekhar Kapur is India's top-grossing film-maker and Oscar-winning director. A sampling of Kapur's work: |
