The Quint's Documentaries

The Quint’s documentary lays bare the reality and politics of ‘Love Jihad’ in Uttar Pradesh and reveals a deep nexus between vigilantes and police who are harassing young couples - in the name of religion.

Since the lynching of Mohd Akhlaq in September 2015 in Dadri, there have been more than 35 lynchings related to cattle vigilantism, in 11 states across India. Why is it that #moblynching in India have become the new normal? And how exactly does #Lynchistan operate? Here's an inside view of the lethal #cowvigilantism infrastructure.

The consecration of the Ram Mandir on 22 January 2024 in Ayodhya is a huge political event, being the culmination of a decades-old dispute, which started in 1949. The Quint revisits the story to trace the events that led to the demolition of the disputed structure in 1992.

Demolition of several shrines, attacks on mosques and madrasas, economic boycotts of Muslim shopkeepers as well as the mass exodus of Muslim residents. All of these are systemic efforts at converting and cementing Uttarakhand as India’s Devbhoomi, imagined as an exclusive, 'Hindu-only' land.

From the Malegaon blast case in 2006 to the serial blasts in Jaipur, Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai train blasts, in all these cases there’s one common thread - apart from the innocents who were killed; the wrongful arrest of Muslims who were held as accused, suffered for years in jail but eventually, they were 'acquitted' due to lack of evidence. Unlike their arrests, the acquittal hardly makes any news. Many people from the community have suffered for years when booked under the contentious Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or UAPA. They are arrested, jailed for years, and eventually acquitted. The ordeal of 16 such people is compiled in the book Baizzat Bari by Manisha Bhalla and Dr Aleemullah Khan. In the documentary, we aim to highlight a pattern of shoddy investigation, false accusations and presumption of guilt, under which many Muslims are wrongfully incarcerated on terror charges. The docu also aims to highlight what acquittal really means for a Muslim wrongfully accused of being a terrorist.

The hardships that follow an act of #sexualassault on a woman are a lot more exploitative, complex, and murky than what meets the eye. Especially if the woman belongs to a low-income group from the backward region of #Bundelkhand in India's heartland. The Quint's new #documentary investigates this reality, as it follows the stories of four such women from #Uttar Pradesh's #Banda district for over a year.

This is the story of Domiasiat, a Uranium-rich village in Meghalaya and its matriarch Spillity Lyngdoh Langrin and how she took on the Uranium mining lobby. She was offered Rs 45 crores. The price for her consent, to allow Uranium mining on her land, but she refused. ‘Money can’t buy me freedom’, this is what Spillity Lyngdoh Langrin said back then. But she and her village Domiasiat paid a heavy price for her refusal.

The Quint’s original documentary on how several Dalits in eastern Uttar Pradesh are breaking through the obstacles of caste discrimination, fighting for dignity, asserting their aspirations and demanding political representation.

What remains 40 years after a violent incident wipes out your family, shakes you up to the core, and alters your life forever? For many, it is trauma, grief and an unbearable pain from the past. But it is also the women who are left behind after all the men in a family are brutally murdered. And 40 years after the 1984 anti-Sikh massacre, these women have a story to tell — not just the terror they witnessed in those three cold days of November 1984, but also it’s aftermath. And in this documentary, The Quint aims at capturing that aftermath. What happened to these women in the 40 years after 1984? We present to you, ‘The Kaurs of 1984’.

Among the several problems plaguing our cities, road congestions are the most visible ones. How did traffic jams become an inherent part of cities in India? This video gives a detailed explanation of the policy and infrastructural challenges that has fractured the state of transportation of Indian cities. #transport #infrastructure #traffic #urbanplanning