US filmmaker comes to document farm stir

BATHINDA: US filmmaker and former NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain, who documented how the corporate houses ruined American agriculture, will make a documentary on the Indian farmers’ agitation now.


The earlier film suggested that in the name of agricultural reforms, the US government had surrendered land and food security to multinational companies. Pain supports the Indian farmers’ movement against the "corporatisation of agriculture". Pain and his assistant,

Sristi Aggarwal

, had travelled 10,000 kilometres across the United States to meet its farmers. They found that an average American farmer had 150 acres but had lost a lot of it to the corporates. It had destroyed dairy farming and forced many American farmers to commit suicide.

The farmer unionists welcomed Pain and his team when they reached Delhi’s Tikri border on Saturday.

Kirti Kisan Union

vice-president

Rajinder Singh

Deep Singh Wala said: "The farmers’ protest has a global outreach. It forced the Centre to repeal the farm laws and achieved a victory against capitalism, which is why filmmakers, researchers, scholars, and intellectuals want to learn how we did it."