An unholy dip and a holy Satyagrah

An extract from 'Faecal Attraction', a film on the political economy of shit in India -here's an interview with a scientist cum priest from Varanasi who knows that the Ganges is heavily contaminated but insists on taking the 'holy dip' everyday. This is his Satyagraha.

 
Published: Wednesday 21 January 2009

An extract from 'Faecal Attraction', a film on the political economy of shit in India -here's an interview with a scientist cum priest from Varanasi who knows that the Ganges is heavily contaminated but insists on taking the 'holy dip' everyday. This is his Satyagraha.

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