Dust & Dreams

April 12, 2011 / India

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The socially unhealthy atmosphere in which the street children of Kolkata resides and their aimless dreams inspired me to do this film. If these children and young people are to live meaningful lives they need the basic necessities for existence and information about their rights, about the forces that keep them poor and helpless and about the pote...

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The street children don’t have access to basic amenities like health, education, nutrition and recreation. They are used to live in an atmosphere - unhygienic and polluted. Their working and living environment put a lot of strain on their physical and mental conditions. ‘Dreams’ may be a grand word to us but to them it’s meaningless. Still they dream and hope that someday they will become doctor, actor or sportsperson etc. Their dreams are vague. It’s a matter of fact, that in the developing countries like India, the society at large has hardly

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