Nero's Guests

2009
55m

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P.Sainath and Bhatia take us into the villages of India, where a quarter million farmers have committed suicide since 1992 due to faulty government, corporate and IMF WB policies and the inc... Read allP.Sainath and Bhatia take us into the villages of India, where a quarter million farmers have committed suicide since 1992 due to faulty government, corporate and IMF WB policies and the increasing scale of the sad reality.P.Sainath and Bhatia take us into the villages of India, where a quarter million farmers have committed suicide since 1992 due to faulty government, corporate and IMF WB policies and the increasing scale of the sad reality.

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- Deepa Bhatia

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9.3/10

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Director
- Deepa Bhatia

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9/10

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This documentary places the 1991 liberalization of India, Monsanto and BT cotton issues, the growing of sugarcane, the hype about wines from Nashik, the growing costs of food in India, the increasing numbers of farmer suicides 9numbering 250, 000 in 2009 and around 350,000 in 2018), the role of the Indian media in keeping this hidden and the growing angst among Indian people in perspective. I highly recommend this touching yet hard hitting film to anyone connected with India, to understand what is truly happening in the country in its people's most basic necessity.

Note: The name "Nero's guests" refers to Tacitus's accounts of Nero's inept administration skills and his setting fire to poor and marginalized people (they would often be labeled "Christians' at that time) in order to provide lighting to his guests in his garden parties, as well as making them feud with dogs for the entertainment of these 'guests'. It asks we the people whether we want to choose to be silent "Nero's guests" apathetic and thus supportive in our silence to what is being done (by multi national corporations, national and state level governments and local money lenders) to the farmers of India.