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An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India's hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary.
Journalists of ‘Khabar Lahariya’ have built a huge following across Uttar Pradesh
For 20 years in rural northern India, an all-women group has run an increasingly popular news outlet called Khabar Lahariya. Most of them come from the Dalit caste, which is the lowest. Their story is told in the Oscar-nominated film, “Writing with Fire.”
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Shushmit Ghosh talk about making Writing With Fire, including how they ingratiated themselves into the lives and work of these women, and how they all took risks to tell their stories.
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