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Episode 6 - Two from South Asia

By Victoria Fenner
Created Aug 27 2009 - 1:23pm
The Roaming Ear
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August 23, 2009
summary: 
Victoria Fenner revisits her trip to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in 2006 and plays two of her favourite documentaries. Originally aired on The Green Planet Monitor.

Victoria revisits her trip to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and plays two of her favourite docs.

00:00 - Intro, welcome

2:45 - Medicinal Herbs - traditional herbs are being harvested, providing health and economic solutions for some of South India's poorest rural people.

7:52 - A celebration of the begining of Dasain, the high holy days in Nepal in September.  Victoria visits Falcha, a gathering place for social transformation in Patan City, Nepal.

 

Produced originally for The Green Planet Monitor, with the assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency and the Canadian Autoworkers Social Justice Fund.  2007.  Executive Producer - Dave Kattenburg - Earth Chronicle Productions

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