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[[File:Sanjay Kak.jpg|thumb|Kak in 2012]]<br />
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'''Sanjay's Kak''' (born 1958) is an Indian author, activist and self-taught film-maker. He is known for his documentaries about [[environmental activism]] and [[Civil resistance|resistance politics]].<br />
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==Background and education==<br />
Kak was born into a family of [[Kashmiri Pandits]], based in [[New Delhi]] for several generations.<br />
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Kak studied economics and sociology at the [[University of Delhi]]. He is a self-taught film-maker who is actively involved in the documentary film movement and in the [[Campaign against Censorship]] and the [[Cinema of Resistance]] project.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Kak makes documentary films. His early work includes ''Punjab: Doosra Adhay'' (1986) about the Punjab in the days of the [[Khalistan]] struggle, and ''Pradakshina'' (1987), about the river [[Ganges]]. He followed this with a 1990 film about Cambodia's [[Angkor Wat]] temple, ''Angkor Remembered''. In 1993 he released films about the [[Indian diaspora]] in [[England]] (''This Land, My Land, Eng-land'') and [[South Africa]] (''A House and a Home''). 1995 saw the release of ''Harvest of Rain''.<br />
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''One Weapon'' (1997) followed, "the documentary that marked Sanjay Kak as an explicitly political filmmaker", according to ''[[The Caravan]]'' magazine, and ''In the Forest Hangs a Bridge'' (1999) about the making of a bridge in [[Northeast India]]; winner of the Golden Lotus Best Documentary Film, National Film Awards; Asian Gaze Award, Pusan Short Film Festival, [[Korea]]. His next films were ''Words on Water'' (2002), about the [[Narmada Bachao Andolan|struggle against the Narmada dams]] in central India, which won Best Long Film prize at the International Festival of Environmental Film & Video (Fica) in [[Brazil]], and ''Jashn-e-Azadi - How We Celebrate Freedom'' (2007) about the Kashmiri freedom struggle.<br />
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''Jashn-e-Azadi'' is a film that has "widely influenced the way Kashmir was perceived in India".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/arts/long-march#sthash.GlUDFZK3.dpuf|title=Sanjay Kak's journeys with those who live in conflict with the Indian state}}</ref> The film has had a chequered screening history.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-jaipur-replay-university-bows-to-abvp-film-fatwa/article2840515.ece| title = In Jaipur replay, university bows to ABVP film fatwa - The Hindu| newspaper = The Hindu| date = 29 January 2012| last1 = Byatnal| first1 = Amruta}} </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2416/stories/20070824509408900.htm|title = Frontline.in}}</ref><br />
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In 2008, he participated in [[Manifesta|Manifesta7]], the European Biennale of Art, in [[Bolzano]], Italy, with the installation ''A Shrine to the Future: The Memory of a Hill'', about the mining of bauxite in the [[Niyamgiri]] hills of Odisha. He writes occasional political commentary, and is the editor of ''Until My Freedom Has Come – The New Intifada in Kashmir'' (2011).<br />
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His latest feature-length documentary is on the revolutionary [[Maoist Movement|Maoist movement]] in India, called ''[[Red Ant Dream]]''. The film was under production for more than three years and released in 2013.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
* ''Punjab: Doosra Adhay'' (1986)<br />
* ''Pradakshina'' (1987)<br />
* ''Angkor Remembered'' (1990)<br />
* ''This Land, My Land, Eng-land'' (1993)<br />
* ''A House and a Home'' (1993)<br />
* ''Harvest of Rain'' (1995)<br />
* ''One Weapon'' (1997)<br />
* ''In the Forest Hangs a Bridge'' (1999)<br />
* ''Words on Water'' (2002)<br />
* ''Jashn-e-Azaadi'' (2007)<br />
* ''[[Red Ant Dream]]'' (2013)<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Shuddhabrata Sengupta. "[http://caravanmagazine.in/arts/long-march A Long March: Sanjay Kak’s cinema of rebellion]". ''[[The Caravan]]''. 1 July 2013.<br />
* Sanjay Kak. "[http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/apparatus The Apparatus: Laying bare the state’s terrifying impunity in Kashmir]". ''The Caravan''. 1 March 2012.<br />
* http://himalmag.com/gifts-people/<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://redantdream.com Official Website of ''Red Ant Dream''/''माटी के लाल'']<br />
* [http://kashmirfilm.wordpress.com ''Jashn-e-Azadi'' Blog]<br />
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