Shri
Prakash
biography
Born in 1966 in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, where he founded Kritika, a small independent production company, he has made numerous documentaries, the best known of which is the award-winning Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda (1999). Made on a shoestring budget, the film documents the misery of the local populations who live with low-dose exposure to uranium radiation around the Jadugoda mine in south Jharkhand. He is also an activist in the Jharkhand Organization Against Radiation (JOAR).
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Shri Prakash
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