Friday, May 16, 2014

A Pune Village: Mulchi

     Samuel Parker, a fellow Alliance student in Pune this semester, and I have decided to join together in the documentary film process we embarked on, to create one documentary film together. We have decided to do a film in tribute of the 17 people who lost their lives in the Februaury 2010 in Pune because of the bomb blast at the German Bakery.

     One of the people we were able to contact to help be a part of the film was a frequenter of the bakery before the attack, and was out in Korageon Park, the neighbourhood in which the German Bakery is located, the day of the attack. The said person had lost a friend in the attack and after giving a brief interview for the documentary film, the person invited Samuel and I out for a trip to an NGO founded in the name of the friend lost in the attack.

    Samuel and I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we said yes to the invitation. For uncertain yet ultimately unimportant reasons, Samuel found ourselves at a Shiv Sena rally/political protest/ swim in Mulchi, a village outside of Pune, one morning, and stayed there well into the afternoon. After watching as a man swam about ten miles from one side of the hills to another, we learned that the town of Mulchi is still suffering from an almost one hundred year old dam, originally planned and built by the British, which raised water levels, flooding housing, and currently forcing some residents to travel almost an hour just to get to the hospital, or to get to the road to Pune city. We also filmed the events, and were told our film was aided on television.

    My heart goes out to the struggles people in Mulchi have faced for generations. They claim the government has yet to act on a promise to build the bridge that the residents have demanded, from one side of the river the dam made to the other side, potentially saving lives. I hope that the bridge gets built, but it is a 5 million rupee project, so I can only hope.

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