http://aninditasengupta.com/2007/12/resisting-coastal-invasions/ Poet, writer, columnist Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://aninditasengupta.com/2007/12/resisting-coastal-invasions/#comment-257 Resisiting Coastal Invasions at Blogbharti Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:48:45 +0000 http://aninditasengupta.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/resisting-coastal-invasions/#comment-257 [...] Anindita Sengupta talks to the award winning activist film maker K P Sasi about his latest documentary, Resisiting Coastal Invasions that talks about the threats that the south Indian fishing community faces. “I derive my creativity from life. Mainstream views of creativity are set in certain norms. If you write, act, make films, sing, you are creative. But I think life is creative. You need creativity to jump onto a running bus, to hang on in a local train in Mumbai, to cook Sambar well. All protest is also creative. To make an impact, you have to protest in a creative manner.” [...] [...] Anindita Sengupta talks to the award winning activist film maker K P Sasi about his latest documentary, Resisiting Coastal Invasions that talks about the threats that the south Indian fishing community faces. “I derive my creativity from life. Mainstream views of creativity are set in certain norms. If you write, act, make films, sing, you are creative. But I think life is creative. You need creativity to jump onto a running bus, to hang on in a local train in Mumbai, to cook Sambar well. All protest is also creative. To make an impact, you have to protest in a creative manner.” [...]

]]> http://aninditasengupta.com/2007/12/resisting-coastal-invasions/#comment-256 Resisiting Coastal Invasions at Blogbharti Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:32:31 +0000 http://aninditasengupta.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/resisting-coastal-invasions/#comment-256 [...] Anindita Sengupta writes about the activist film maker K P Sasi and his latest documentary Resisting Coastal Invasions that talks about the threats that the south Indian fishing community faces. Personally, I have never seen such a simple human being who involves himself in the on-ground activism and not just celluloid activism. “I derive my creativity from life. Mainstream views of creativity are set in certain norms. If you write, act, make films, sing, you are creative. But I think life is creative. You need creativity to jump onto a running bus, to hang on in a local train in Mumbai, to cook Sambar well. All protest is also creative. To make an impact, you have to protest in a creative manner.” [...] [...] Anindita Sengupta writes about the activist film maker K P Sasi and his latest documentary Resisting Coastal Invasions that talks about the threats that the south Indian fishing community faces. Personally, I have never seen such a simple human being who involves himself in the on-ground activism and not just celluloid activism. “I derive my creativity from life. Mainstream views of creativity are set in certain norms. If you write, act, make films, sing, you are creative. But I think life is creative. You need creativity to jump onto a running bus, to hang on in a local train in Mumbai, to cook Sambar well. All protest is also creative. To make an impact, you have to protest in a creative manner.” [...]

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