Shillong, Aug 22: The Khasi Students Union, NEHU Unit will organise a screening of the Red Ant Dream a documentary film directed by Sanjay Kak and directed by local editor Tarun Bhartiya at NEHU Old Guest House Auditorium, NEHU Campus, Mawlai, Shillong on August 23 at 2.30 pm.

Red Ant Dream, a 120 minutes film is a chronicle of those who live the revolutionary ideal in India, a rare encounter with the invisible domain of those whose everyday is a fight for another ideal of the world.

The film centred around maoism, a subterranean war that broke out more than half a century ago, and the continuing battle is shaped not just with bullets and explosives, but also ideas. ‘Population is the center of gravity’, says the officer charged with training policemen in jungle warfare in Bastar, with turning them into soldiers who can take-on the Maoist rebellion – ‘whichever side the population tilts, that side wins’. This is the struggle that the Indian Prime Minister has referred to as the ‘single greatest internal security threat to the nation’.

Red Ant Dream (2013) the third in a cycle of films that interrogate the workings of Indian democracy, the film follows Jashn-e-Azadi (2007) about the idea of freedom for Kashmir, and Words on Water (2002) about the people’s movement against large dams in the Narmada valley.(SP News)