A moving statement from Baba Amte upon the conferment of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in a remarkable life spanning 92 years, Baba Amte has fought for forgotten causes, given voice to the voiceless and bought hope to thousands…
“Work with the people and not for the people” - Baba Amte

Tata Institute of Social Sciences was born in 1936, the first initiative of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. It became a deemed university in 1964 and has always been an educational institution with a difference. Social responsiveness and commitment to the rights of the marginalized have been at the core of its work. As it enters its 70th years, in 2006, it is once again a time for reflection and renewal, for imagining futures in response to changing realities. This video presents the new programme and initiatives that TISS envisages, as it responds to a rapidly changing global order.

Built between 1865 and 1876, Yerwada Central Prison (YCP), Pune, is one of the oldest prisons in India, with over 2500 inmates. In this video, six poets and artistes of the YCP share their work, their lives...
Through their poems and musings, the film explores the modes in which they creatively cope with the pain and stigma of incarceration, in the process questioning their selfhood and the socially constructed divides between ‘us' and ‘them', between the ‘normal' and the ‘deviant'.
Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival,1998 and the Jury’s Award for Best Innovation, Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998.

Through a fictionalized case study, this slide-sound presentation traces the entire process of adoption, with special emphasis on the role of the social worker. Issues discussed include the legal framework for adoption, adoption procedures, counseling the adoptive parents, follow-up after adoption and the importance of telling the child that she/he is adopted.