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Works

1. A Time to Rise (1981). Concerns Indian immigrant farm workers’ efforts to unionize in Canada.
2. Bombay Our City (1985). On slum dwellers.
3. In Memory of Friends (1990). On rebuilding communal harmony in Punjab.
4. 'Ram ke Nam(In the Name of God)' (1992). On the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and Babri Mosque.
5. Pitr, Putr aur Dharmayuddha(Father, Son and Holy War) (1995). Concerns the patriarchal roots of violence in India.
6. A Narmada Diary (1996). Won the Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 1996.
7. Jang Aur Aman (U.S.: War and Peace) (2001). Traces the development of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan. Won the Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 2002.