Flames of Freedom: the Ichchapur declaration

About the film

A spontaneous uprising of the Shudras against age-old Brahmanic-Feudal machinations still prevalent in full force with the sanctions of the ‘democratic’ Indian State… A sleepy, idyllic Indian village, Ichchapur in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, suddenly wakes up to take on the brutally oppressive Brahmanism that had enslaved the original inhabitants for nearly two centuries, after grabbing all the resources that once belonged to them. What began with a fight to retain their tiny cultural space (shrine of their deity) – the only identity they were left with – the Shudras of Ichchapur tuned the resistance into a powerful socio-political war against their oppressors.

Director Biography

Sahu currently works as an independent filmmaker, researcher and scholar