Avinash

Would it be fair to say that you’re a journalist who turned into a filmmaker? Yes and I’d say that it wasn’t a well-planned journey or anything like that. As a journalist, one looks for stories and as a filmmaker, as well, one looks for stories. I was a journalist from 1996 to around 2013-14. I encountered a lot of stories in that span but those stories would get lost; they’d slip away from me. In a newspaper, a story lasts for two or three days. And the fact that many stories died caused me pain. So I was looking for a…

Mangalajodi, a village located on the north-eastern corner of Chilika Lake, in Orissa, is a mosaic of freshwater marshes and reed beds that are home to an amazing diversity of birds, especially in the winter, when visitors from Siberia, Mongolia and China arrive. Looking at Mangalajodi’s tranquil beauty today, it is hard to imagine that the area was not always the bird paradise it now is.Prior to 2000, this area witnessed mass slaughter and massive poaching of birds and their eggs. It was the efforts of Nanda Kishore…