Miles Away (Meelon Dur): A KL Hatke Exclusive Screening

Love, Loss, Livelihood – Brick By Brick Here’s presenting an exclusive screening link to ‘Miles Away’, a Chambal Media documentary that follows the lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in northern India. Their lives take an upsetting turn after unseasonal rainfall abruptly halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganised labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanising India. ‘Miles Away’ (Meelon Dur) emerges from Khabar Lahariya’s  research project on labour and migration in Bundelkand, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Michelle Buckley from the University of Toronto and Dr. Paula Chakravartty from New York University. Both researchers are not only Khabar Lahariya’s partners in this research but are also the producers of the