“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man”

“The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth”

“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability”.
~Oscar Wilde

“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”
~Mohandas Gandhi

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”
~Wendell Berry

The Known Universe

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott
Music: Suke Cerulo

Chitti Hatia~a film on Indo-Pak Friendship by Sharad Sharma

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/embed.php?width=700&height=480&video=http://cdn.cultureunplugged.com/lg/CHITTI_HATIA.mp4&m=1958&u=0&thumb=http://cdn.cultureunplugged.com/thumbnails/lg/1958.jpg&sURL=http://www.cultureunplugged.com&title=ChittiHatia&from=SharadSharma

The Story of Human Rights–a film

THE DAY MY GOD DIED–a documentary by Global Voices

Trafficking of young girls for sex trade.

“The day I was sold is the day my God died.”

One  million of the world’s women and children disappear into that darkness every year.

Trafficking is absolutely, positively the worst possible case of Human Right violation you can think of.

Trafficking is abduction, trafficking is rape,  trafficking is torture- emotional & physical, trafficking is murder.

TED TALK ON KABIR by Shabnam Virmani

Shabnam Virmani is a filmmaker and artist in residence at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India.

7 years ago she started travelling with folk singers in Malwa, Rajasthan and Pakistan in a quest for the spiritual and socio-political resonances of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir in our contemporary worlds. Among the tangible outcomes of these journeys were a series of 4 musical documentary films, several music CDs and books of the poetry in translation (www.kabirproject.org).

Inspired by the inclusive spirit of folk music, she has begun to play the tambura and sing folk songs of Kabir herself. Currently she is working on co-creating a web-museum of Kabir poetry & music with folk singer communities in India and developing ideas for taking mystic poetry and folk music to school classrooms.

She continues to journey to new areas such as Kutch, Gujarat and draw inspiration not only from Kabir, but also other mystic poets of the sub-continent and the oral folk traditions that carry them to us. Her earlier work consisted of several video and radio programs created in close partnership with grassroots women’s groups in India.

Had Anhad: Journeys With Ram & Kabir (Bounded-Boundless) :

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2831
/Had-Anhad–Journeys-With-Ram—Kabir–Bounded-Boundless-

Director: Shabnam Virmani | Producer: Srishti
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2008 | Country:India

Synopsis: Kabir was a 15th century mystic poet of north India who defied the boundaries between Hindus and Muslims. He had a Muslim name and upbringing, but his poetry repeatedly invokes the widely revered Hindu name for God – Ram. Who is Kabir’s Ram? This film journeys through song and poem into the politics of religion, and finds a myriad of answers on both sides of the hostile border between India and Pakistan.