Water for the Ages is an interesting clearinghouse website for water and sanitation related issues. It includes films, books, art, organizations and a water related calendar. It has a thoughtful collection of water films listed at its film page. My film PANI is listed along with 50 others--the films include both longform documentary as well as short films. You can find the film page here : http://waterfortheages.org/water-films/

I was a participant at the Berlinale Talent Campus, which is part of the Berlinale cinema festival, in 2007. That program has now been re-named "Berlinale Talents."  During the festival and campus, I met many filmmakers from all over the world. I also got to see talks by prominent actors, filmmakers and composers like Wim Wenders, Gael Garcia Bernal, Walter Salles, and Jan Kaczmarek . The program is open to filmmakers from all over the world. If you would like to apply and attend with your film for 2015, click on the bear below! The call for applications for 2014 is already closed, but you can still browse the website and put a note in your calender to check back when the applications re-open.

"Burma on My Mind" screened on Sunday 23rd June to a packed audience at the beautiful Image Ark Gallery, which is located in a historic part of Patan. The gallery is owned and managed by Mary-Ange, a longterm resident of Kathmandu. Here is their Facebook page . Page of event.

The ever dynamic Manju Mishra, founder of a journalism college in Nepal, co-ordinates a Nepal-Africa film festival . "Burma on My Mind" was shown during the 3rd festival on June 2013. Rajesh Hamal was a guest speaker at the inauguration! During which he made a wonderfully thoughtful and articulate speech about Nepal's connection with Africa. For a listing of films, check this page: http://www.nepalafricafilmfestival.com.np/archives/2013.html  

“Burma on My Mind” is a journey and pilgrimage through the heart of Myanmar’s Gorkhali community. How do Hindus and Buddhists co-exist and live in present day Myanmar? Where do they go to seek spiritual transcendence? What conflicts arise in their search for religious identity? And how can the words of the Buddha provide an answer, and a pathway to peace, to the faultlines that have sprung up in this tight-knit community? The documentary is available in its full length form on Youtube. Your feedback is highly appreciated! If you'd like to use the documentary for teaching purposes, please drop me an email at sansarmagazine@gmail.com. Click here to see "Burma on My Mind"  on Youtube. The documentary has been viewed by an audience of 37,000. __________________________________________________________________ I presented the article associated with this documentary "The Religious Life of the Gorkhalis of Myanmar" at the conference on religion and

I spent a year between 2010-2011 shooting a documentary about the Gorkhali diaspora in Myanmar and Thailand. The documentary looks at a diasporic community deeply entrenched in Burma, both through their history as well as their love for the country. It also features the rising tensions between newly converted Gorkhali Theravada practitioners who are pressuring Hindus and Mahayani Buddhists to convert to the state-sanctioned religion. The movement appears more political than religious, and it is also new. Religion was one domain that was untouched by the state from the Sixties till very recently, allowing people to continue to worship in their own manner, undisturbed. Burma's rising intolerance regarding religious freedom is disturbing from many vantage points,  not the least of which is that the teachings of the Buddha always regards non-violence (ahimsa) as its central tenet. Pressurizing those from other sects or religions to adopt the state religion goes against everything

This is a photographic record of the 90th birthday party of a man in my neighborhood. This celebration is known as a "jankhu" by the Newari community. The photographs remind us of the joyful and celebratory aspects of aging.