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	[[Transport\|Mobility]] was seen as an important tool for [[empowerment]] and in addition to reading and writing, women were taught how to ride bicycles. The film captures the conditions in the district including [[cycling]] classes for women where men often gathered to crack jokes and taunt women trying to learn cycling. The film highlights the partnership between public and private bodies as well as work of 25,000 volunteers that made it possible.<ref>{{cite web		[[Transport\|Mobility]] was seen as an important tool for [[empowerment]] and in addition to reading and writing, women were taught how to ride bicycles. The film captures the conditions in the district including [[cycling]] classes for women where men often gathered to crack jokes and taunt women trying to learn cycling. The film highlights the partnership between public and private bodies as well as work of 25,000 volunteers that made it possible.<ref>{{cite web
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	[[Category:Indian short documentary films]]		[[Category:Indian short documentary films]]
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	[[Category:Documentary films about cycling]]		[[Category:Documentary films about cycling]]
	[[Category:2000s short documentary films]]		[[Category:2000s short documentary films]]

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{{Infobox film
| name = Pedaling to Freedom
| image = Bicycles in India 07.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Girls bicycling along street in India.
| director = Vijay S. Jodha [https://www.jodha.net/]

| writer = Vijay S. Jodha
| starring = N. Kannammal, [http://persmin.nic.in/ersheet/MultipleERS.asp?HiddenStr=01TN023300 Sheela Rani Chunkath]
| music = Pradeep Kotnala
| cinematography = Sanjay Agrawal

| editing = Vijay S. Jodha
| producer = [http://www.psbt.org/ PSBT] & [[Prasar Bharati]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2007|8|23|India}}
| runtime = 28 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = English/[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| budget =
| gross =
| distributor = [http://www.synclinefilmstore.com/ Syncline Films Pvt. Ltd.]
}}
'''''Pedaling to Freedom''''' ([[2007 in film|2007]]) is a 28-minute [[documentary film|documentary]]<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.festivalfocus.org/film_view.php?uid=1891
| title = Pedaling to Freedom
| publisher = festivalfocus
| accessdate = 2012-11-03}}</ref> directed by Vijay S. Jodha. The film shows how a simple thing, such as teaching women to ride a bicycle in a deprived part of the world, can have a life-changing impact. The documentary was made in English and [[Tamil language|Tamil]].

==Content==
''Pedaling to Freedom'' is a documentary film set in [[Pudukkottai]] district of [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. The film revisits a year-long initiative that took place there in 1993, in what used to be one of the poorest parts of the world.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.unesco.org/education/literacy_2001/india.shtml
| title = Illiteracy in India -Targeting Women in Tamil Nadu
| publisher = [[UNESCO]]
| accessdate = 2012-11-03}}</ref> As a result of this initiative 230,000 people learnt to read and write, and over 100,000 women learnt to ride [[bicycle]]s. [[Wages]] increased 1000%. It happened in the space of just one year and cost less than one and a half dollars per person. The film relies on archival stills, filmed footage as well as interviews with those who were associated with the project.

Kannammal, an insurance company office assistant who took leave from work to volunteer for the project is featured prominently.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.un.org/works/sub3.asp?lang=en&id=58
| title = Books and bicycles empower women in Tamil Nadu
| publisher = [[United Nations]]
| accessdate = 2012-11-03}}</ref> She served as a central coordinator and at the end of the project, went back to her office where she remains an office assistant.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://portal.unesco.org/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_17A88908FD8B046871D506D3A21400AF7EA70000/filename/Fromlife_toliteracylife.pdf
| title = From Life Insurance to Literacy for Life
| author = N. Kannammal
| publisher = [[UNESCO]]
| accessdate = 2012-11-04}}</ref>

[[Transport|Mobility]] was seen as an important tool for [[empowerment]] and in addition to reading and writing, women were taught how to ride bicycles. The film captures the conditions in the district including [[cycling]] classes for women where men often gathered to crack jokes and taunt women trying to learn cycling. The film highlights the partnership between public and private bodies as well as work of 25,000 volunteers that made it possible.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2007/12/14/stories/2007121450500400.htm
| title = The making of a cycle
| date = 14 December 2007
| author = Anuj Kumar
| work = [[The Hindu]]
| accessdate = 2012-11-04}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Accessibility (transport)]]
* [[Education in India]]
* ''[[With My Own Two Wheels]]''
* [[World Bicycle Relief]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [[P. Sainath]] [https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/where-there-is-a-wheel/ "Where there's a wheel, there's a way"] in ''[[Everybody Loves a Good Drought]]'', [[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 2002
* [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001235/123588E.pdf UNESCO Document, Living Literacy; 2001, UNESCO, 2001]
* [http://www.unesco.org/education/literacy_2001/broch_eng.pdf UNESCO Document on Pudukkottai & other literacy initiatives worldwide]
* [http://www.vidyaonline.org/support2.php?E_LINK=arpd Various Government of India documents dealing with education in India]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZIOFDGxZI Pedaling to Freedom trailer]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/nov/04/bicycle-symbol-womens-emancipation How the bicycle became a symbol of women's emancipation]

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[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Documentary films about cycling]]
[[Category:2000s short documentary films]]

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