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Exploring Spiritually-Engaged Sustainability Through Films

Films offer the power of multiple readings and rich experience of the cultural universe we live in...it is a powerful and creative tool to communicate emotions that the world needs to see, experience, empathise, and  engage with. Friendship, concern, care, understanding, inter-connectedness, suffering, passion, empathy, compassion, love...These are sort of 'foundational' emotions through which we need to interrogate, to re-evaluate the unsustainable material edifice we have created in the name of civilisation...destroying many tenuous but valuable things on its path. We need to reach out to the inner core of persons and to examine the inner layers of our relationships between ourselves, between the present and the past, between the present and the future and between ourselves and Nature. Such explorations would provide an entry point into the spiritual basis of our being and existence, open us up to explore ourselves, our relationships, our identities and our societies...and eventually point us to ways of seeing and growing spiritually-engaged sustainable futures.

This initiative will be led by a young accomplished filmmaker. Details are given below. See his website for more information on his important works.


Ajay Bhardwaj

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Ajay Bhardwaj (b.1964) is a documentary filmmaker based in Delhi. He holds two Master’s degrees, in the fields of Political Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) and Mass Communications (Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi). He has worked in media for the past two decades.

Between 1984 -1987, he was associated with a Delhi based street theatre group Aahwan Natya Manch. From 1990 to 1996, while working with Delhi based television companies like NDTV, TV-18, Times Television, etc he produced and directed a diverse range of programmes like current affairs, election analysis, game shows, chat shows, popular science shows as well as infotainment programmes.

Catching up on lifelong interest and concerns, he has been making documentaries since 1997. He has made documentaries on political, cultural and development themes that have won critical acclaim. Since 2002, beside other themes, he has been engaging with the north-western state of Punjab in India that has resulted in a trilogy on Punjab. It includes Milange Babey Ratan De Mele Te, Rabba Hun Kee Kariye and Kitte Mil Ve Mahi. His documentaries have been screened at international film festivals, academic conferences, and community and activist events.

See his website here.



Check here for a proposed film.

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This site promotes the orientation, activities, resources and projects of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality (GCSSFS). The Centre is supported in the area of content generation, project execution, design and general administration by Public Media Agency (PMA),  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia under the direct care of one of their creative consultants, Dr. M. Nadarajah (Nat). Nat works as consultant on different projects.  He supports PMA on its various projects supporting social causes. Nat is presently engaged with Xavier University@Bhubaneshwar, India, with it School of Sustainability. He works with Loyola College@Chennai, India on issues related sustainability and spirituality. He is associated with the Centre for Diaspora Studies@MSU, Tirunelveli, India. He continues to support Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), which is based in Penang, Malaysia, as consultant on a project to set up a 'blended' institution, International People's Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM), to promote agroecology across Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member of the Asian Public Intellectual (API)  community.

GCSSFS, 2016