THE LIVING WORD (32 minutes): Environmentalist Anil Agarwal and Danish journalist and writer Knud Vilby discuss the issue of air pollution, governance and how we move ahead. 7500 people die every year because of air pollution. How do policy makers look at this problem? Do they stress on ecology, or on economy? Development in a poor country, like India, is not cheap.

WATERWORKS INDIA: FOUR ENGINEERS AND A MANAGER (22 minutes): Meet five 'ordinary' people, who have kept the intricate traditional science of water management alive from the modern onslaught. These barefootIndian rural engineers have been practicing the tradition of water harvesting for quite some time. The camera moves from the remote cold desert of Leh to Rajasthan and then to far south in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. This film introduces the viewer to the technique and social management practices governing community water management.

ARVARI (14 minutes): A major people's movement in rural Rajasthan has revived the river Arvari and its tributaries. Water management techniques have completely changed the landscape and lives in this once-denuded region. A dried up river has come back to life through a revolutionary movement, regenerating community and society.

HARVEST OF RAIN (48 minutes): Dedicated to India's traditional water harvesting systems. One of the basic principles of water management is simplicity itself – conserve water where it falls. But we tend to chase hydraulic nightmares: big dams and canals. An age-old wisdom lies forgotten. The camera wanders through Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, recording the profound science of the people. Get to know a wide variety of water management systems as a function of differing ecological terrains.

THAR - SECRETS OF THE DESERT (52 minutes): The villages of Thar, in Rajasthan, have amazing systems of water harvesting. Similarly, the desert farmer has devised an ingenious system to grow and maintain sources of fodder. Today, it is these villages that have not yet been 'modernised' that have water and fodder during periods of drought, unlike other 'developed' villages who wait for water tankers and fodder trucks from neighbouring states.

THE VILLAGE REPUBLIC (50 minutes): Sukhomajri in the Siwalik, Ralegaon Siddhi in the Deccan Plateau, Seed in Aravali and Penchgani in Baripada are villages which have taken control of their environment into their own hands and changed their economic fate. These village republics depict that environmental management, in rural India, is a matter of giving power to the people to manage their natural resources.

THE SPIRITS OF FOREST (23 minutes): Sacred groves are social practices, the cultural codes which are embedded through years of practice and ritual. They preach prudence in the use of natural resources in the long term interest of the community. Sacred groves are found throughout the breadth and length of India and their purpose is to manage and protect forests in the name of God. If they are to remain, two things need to be practiced - local community control must be strengthened and not weakened; secondly we have to rebuild faith in the wealth that our forests provide.

LIFE UNDER WILDLIFE (23 minutes): Looks at the conflict between man and animal. The traditional inheritors of the forests are evicted and 'rehabilitated' to inhospitable terrains, all in the name of protecting the wildlife! A case study of the situation in the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka and the Rajaji National Park in Uttar Pradesh.

WRATH OF NATURE (84 minutes): In this three part series, environmentalist Anil Agarwal presents the problems of India's increasing susceptibility to floods and droughts and seeks to understand the impact of degradation of the environment on this problem. Part I explores the increase in flood affected areas in India and analyses the Himalayan floods. Part II looks at the increased incidents of droughts in India and the conditions which are responsible for it. It also explores the question about deforestation and its impact on rainfall. Part III presents an agenda for change and shows how the country can combat the growing problems of drought and flood.

BANDITS AND THE BACKHANDERS (23 minutes): Degradation of values translates into degradation of nature. In a corrupt system, people lose respect for values. With large scale corruption in the natural resource management, people lose respect for nature. The film takes viewers to look at irrational policies (not based on scientific understanding, but on vested interests) in management of rivers, floods, forests, and urban planning; and highlights the results of such distorted practices.

SMOG INC. (26 minutes): While Indians chase the American dream of a car for everyone, they pay a heavy price with health disorders. Cities across India are choking from vehicle exhaust. A classic documentary that takes an incisive look at the science and politics of vehicular pollution.

(me/ CSE)