India's Documentary Feature 'Writing with Fire' | Uttar Pradesh | 09 Feb 2022

On February 8, 2022, India's documentary feature 'Writing with Fire' has been nominated for the Oscar 2022.

'Writing with Fire' is based on 'Khabar Lahariya' published from Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh. The documentary is directed by Rintu Thomas and Sumit Ghosh.
'Khabar Lahariya' was the only newspaper in India, which was operated only by Dalit women. In the eight-page newspaper 'Khabar Lahariya', women reporters used to raise issues related to changing society, corruption, unfulfilled promises of the government, poor and women.
The publication of this newspaper was started in Bundelkhandi language from 2002. However, it closed in 2015. Since then till now, Khabar Lahariya is operating on the mobile portal.
It is noteworthy that for 'Khabar Lahariya', its founder NGO Nitar was awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Award 2009.