Wednesday, February 14, 2007

school chale hum

here is an interesting "social" message videos... here is an interesting one... this is it's description on youtube.com:

192 million children between 6-14 years of age across 1.1 million places in India are not going to school.
This film for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Universilisation of Elementary Education) addresses the needs of these children.
The film catches the moment when children all across India from Kashmir to Kerala wake up in the morning and run to go to school.
Music:Shankar/Ehsaan/Loy
Lyrics:Mehboob
Directed by: Kanika and Bala, Bharatbala Productions (BBP) for the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India.


and here is the video:


I need to see what the Indian government is actually doing to get kids in school... besides making videos... hmmm

anyways.. something to think about.

edit:
after finding this, I checked out the other videos by bbpfilms, which all seem to be these videos designed to pull at people emotionally.. it's interesting.. videos like this about the U.S. always make me roll my eyes, but about India, I always get a little pulled in, even though I know it is..umm... let's see,how to say? designed to make us think a certain way... for example, this video, is all about technology, and shows how building huge fancy buildings and factories is the way to go. It's called "I am India"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"92 million children between 6-14 years of age across 1.1 million places in India are not going to school... The film catches the moment when children all across India from Kashmir to Kerala wake up in the morning and run to go to school."

I'd just like to see a video of the 92 million waking up in the morning into their lives where there is no school...

Anonymous said...

dear linzi
may be u for got abt the sunflowers field and agriculture(school grl at metro too)the wheel of progress and development needs all education agriculture and industry..(may be in India`s concern i have different ideas that what exactly happening on grass root level but as for now comments r on video)