“Writing with Fire” (2021), directed by Susmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas, is a powerful documentary about Khabar Lahariya, an all-female, Dalit-run news organization in India. It follows reporters like Meera, Suneeta, and Shyamkali as they confront societal and technological challenges. In 2025, the film still deeply impressed Dutch viewers, showcasing the courage of women defying male dominance to reshape Indian journalism.
This week there was an Indian television premiere in my home country of the Netherlands, and I immediately thought I want to see it, because my writing life takes place a lot in India. I wholeheartedly want to know more and more about the history and culture of this enchantingly beautiful country. I also immediately thought it was a nice change and or pause between the sounds of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky who are currently dominating the world in a shameful way, especially in the NATO countries, in my opinion, it is only about how they can turn the world into a dictatorship the fastest. But yes, an old Dutch saying goes: “where two dogs fight over a bone, the third goes with it.
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