Five students of School of Media and Culture Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) made a documentary, Caste on the Menu Card, explaining the situation on-campus.
While explaining the tension inside the campus canteen, the documentary sheds light on the social hierarchy that food and eating habits are subjected to.
The documentary was not allowed to be screened at the 12th Jeevika Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival on October 31.
The documentary, which has had the privilege of being screened across cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore since January 2015, was denied an audience.
If the land donated by the man himself or by somebody else, if he tries to confiscate that land, he would be sinful of slaughtering hundreds and thousands of cows.
Abhijeet Dandekar, Professor of Deccan College, Pune in the Documentary
The documentary presents both the sides of the argument – the religious importance of cows and the importance of cows in the current times.
All Hindus eat meat, all kinds of meat, including cow. And there is lot of reference in Rigved, Manusmriti and Brahma-sutra about cow being offered to treat the guest.
Dr Avatthi Ramaiah, TISS, Mumbai in Caste in the Documentary
The five makers of the film also released a statement explaining what the aim of their documentary is.
Watch the documentary:
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