[ARTE] Inde, la fête des couleurs

Inde, la fête des couleurs - Un espoir pour les veuves

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/122166-000-A/inde-la-fete-des-couleurs/

Documentaire ARTE (44 min) disponible GRATUITEMENT jusqu'au 30/01/2026

[En Inde, les veuves sont rejetées, stigmatisées et doivent porter le blanc, couleur de la mort. À Vrindavan cependant, elles trouvent refuge dans des foyers qui leur sont réservés et peuvent ainsi pour la première fois célébrer Holi, la fête des couleurs.

En Inde, les traditions millénaires demeurent vivantes. Parmi elles, la fête des couleurs – Holi – efface, le temps d’un jour, les barrières d’origine, de religion et de caste. Pourtant, les veuves en sont exclues. Selon la coutume hindoue, elles doivent porter le blanc, la couleur de la mort.

Rejetées, stigmatisées, beaucoup vivent dans la pauvreté et l’isolement. À Vrindavan, cependant, une brèche s’ouvre: dans les ashrams, les veuves trouvent refuge. Et au temple Gopinath, elles ont enfin le droit de célébrer Holi – une première, un véritable tournant. Elles s’aspergent de couleurs, rient, dansent et reprennent possession, le temps d’un jour, de leur humanité confisquée. Un récit poignant mais porteur d’espoir, où la couleur devient un acte de résistance et de renaissance.]

Réalisation: Valeria STAROVOIT

Pays: Allemagne

Année: 2025

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BBC: Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66360064

By Soutik BISWAS (August 02, 2023)

[What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world?

On 20 July, India banned exports of non-basmati white rice in an attempt to calm rising domestic prices at home. This was followed by reports and videos of panic buying and empty rice shelves at Indian grocery stores in the US and Canada, driving up prices in the process.

(...)

India is the world's top rice exporter, accounting for some 40% of the global trade in the cereal. (Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and the US are the other top exporters).

Among the major buyers of rice are China, the Philippines and Nigeria. There are "swing buyers" like Indonesia and Bangladesh who step up imports when they have domestic supply shortages. Consumption of rice is high and growing in Africa. In countries like Cuba and Panama it is the main source of energy.]

...to be continued:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66360064

BBC: Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis

BBC: August 02, 2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66360064

by Soutik Biswas

[What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world?

On 20 July, India banned exports of non-basmati white rice in an attempt to calm rising domestic prices at home. This was followed by reports and videos of panic buying and empty rice shelves at Indian grocery stores in the US and Canada, driving up prices in the process.

(...)

India is the world's top rice exporter, accounting for some 40% of the global trade in the cereal. (Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and the US are the other top exporters).

Among the major buyers of rice are China, the Philippines and Nigeria. There are "swing buyers" like Indonesia and Bangladesh who step up imports when they have domestic supply shortages. Consumption of rice is high and growing in Africa. In countries like Cuba and Panama it is the main source of energy.]

...to be continued: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66360064

BBC: slavery in contemporary India

BBC News - Osmanabad: The tortured Indian labourers who were kept as slaves

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66038795

[On a scorching June night, Bhagwan Ghukse woke up with a jolt and decided to run for his life. 

For the past month, Mr Ghukse had been kept captive in a squalid shanty in the western state of Maharashtra along with six other daily-wage workers. The workers were hired by some contractors in the state's Osmanabad district to dig wells, but were later forced into bonded labour which is illegal in India.]

(by Praveen THAKRE in Osmanabad and Zoya MATEEN in Delhi - June 28, 2023)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66038795

BBC: Dowry in contemporary India

BBC - 'I have been rejected by dozens of men over dowry'

[Dowries have been illegal in India since 1961, but the bride's family is still expected to gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.]

by Geeta PANDEY (2023, July 04)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66084575

BBC: Salt workers in Gujarat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-63830934

Gujarat: The difficult lives of India's salt workers

India is the world’s third largest producer of salt after China and the United States. 

More than 70% of this salt is produced in the western state of Gujarat.]

Video by Vikas TRIVEDI and Debalin ROY (December 04, 2022)

BBC: Scoop: Netflix show on colliding worlds of crime and media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65887676

[The sensational murder of India's best known crime reporter in June 2011 and the subsequent arrest of a female crime journalist on allegations of being involved in the murder had stunned the country (India).]

by Geeta PANDEY (June 26, 2023)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65887676