Saturday, August 28, 6 pm, 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road

Screening of “Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality,” documentary featuring journalist P. Sainath. The new documentary “Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality,” directed by Deepa Bhatia, tells the story of India’s agrarian crisis and the growing worldwide inequality through the work of award-winning journalist P. Sainath. For the past decade, Sainath has been reporting on the epidemic of farmers committing suicide in India as a result of the collapse of the rural economy. Sainath’s hard-hitting reporting for The Hindu newspaper forced other journalists to cover the story and government officials to act.

From the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York: “In this fluidly edited and moving documentary … P. Sainath’s energy and sense of outrage are contagious. As he visits the affected families and works every media angle at his disposal to get politicians to act, we see a society in denial, a lack of social justice for the poor and gaping wealth disparities in the country.”

In a 29-year career as a journalist, Sainath has won over 35 global and national awards and been called “the conscience of the Indian nation” by other journalists. In 2007, he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award — Asia’s most prestigious prize, often referred to as the “Asian Nobel” — for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciousness.”

The screening is sponsored by Association for India’s Development (AID) Austin and the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. For more information: (512) 524-3819 or austin@aidindia.org.