#delhi university

In the sylvan, chirpy campus of Delhi University, eighty thousand students directly elect their union representative. Following the twelve-day election campaign, ‘The Black Pamphlets’ becomes both an expos’ of the money and muscle behind student elections, and a portrait of a generation of global consumers as they engage with the idea of politics. The film asks important questions about Indian democracy: how do the future citizens of a neo-liberal democracy feel about elections? Are they idealistic, cynical, indifferent? Are the political heroes of the Indian freedom struggle, who were the same age as the students of today, meaningful to them, or are they simply fictional characters in Bollywood narratives. Or, if there is any space left for ideas that do not conform, that ask for change in the world’s largest democracy.

Black Pamphlets(Nitin K. Pamnani, 2007)