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While India is perceived as an emerging market, the stories of the plundering of natural resources and the systematic annihilation of the indigenous peoples go unheard. In this race to make India a superpower, and a growing media industry that champions this idea, social inequality has reached its zenith, and easily gets pushed aside. What, then, is the future of the people who grow food with their hands; who have long been guarding forests and rivers–even before climate change could touch them? Why does the media shy away from reporting about the majority of its populace, even while they silently die from landmines and malaria alike? Reporting on the ‘hidden civil war in India’, Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, will speak about the dark territories of mineral-rich India, which are rife with violence and disease, which are only silenced.

Reception and photojournalism exhibit to follow.

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Time: 6:00pm
Place: University of Pittsburgh, William Pitt Union, Room 837
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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