Nero's Guests (2009)

Nero's Guests plot

More than 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide in the past decade. A drama that is caused by the grinding poverty. But neither the authorities nor the media are picking it up. 'Nero's Guests' follows journalist Palagummi Sainath who cares about the plight of the poor farmers. Journalist Sainath publishes the victims' stories in the daily newspaper The Hindu. This is special, because "no newspaper in this country has a correspondent who writes exclusively about poverty". In other words, about seventy percent of the Indian population has no news value, according to the Indian elite. Such overwhelming poverty is apparently too confronting for the reader. "Is it a sin to be a farmer?" a penniless man wonders desperately. Sainath uses the suicides to question the huge wealth gap in India. Filmmaker Deepa Bhatia follows him to poverty-stricken farming families and well-attended lectures.

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