{"id":8991,"date":"2013-03-19T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:36:56","slug":"ithu-ente-bhoomi-a-documentary-on-environmental-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/ithu-ente-bhoomi-a-documentary-on-environmental-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithu Ente Bhoomi &#8211; A documentary on environmental issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ithu Ente Bhoomi (It\u2019s my Earth)<\/strong>, a 17-minute documentary was released as part of the <strong>\u2018Paristhithi\u2019 campaign<\/strong> launched by the State Department of Environment and Climate Change at a function held at <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.entecity.com\/theatre\/nila\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nila Theatre<\/a> by Minister Shashi Tharoor. The documentary was directed by P.Y. Anilkumar, Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre Environment Vision, an NGO based at Venganoor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ithu Ente Bhoomi<\/strong> spreads the message of environmental conservation, particularly among the youth. The documentary focused on relevant issues in the capital city, and shows us numerous problems, most of which are rooted in the lack of an effective means of waste management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film conveys ideas that advocate personal hygiene and stressed the needs of future generations.\u201d said Mr. Anilkumar.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary was jointly produced by the State government, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre, the Nehru Yuva Kendra and a group of environmental activists called \u2018<strong>Green Community<\/strong>\u2019. The students of the S.R.S. Upper Primary School at Pallichal were involved in the making of the Ithu Ente Bhoomi documentary. Director Anilkumar said that the crew had visited around 200 homes in the vicinity of the school and distributed stickers and badges on the need for better sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the exam season, we plan to screen the documentary at schools through the school \u2018Paristhithi\u2019 clubs,\u201d the director added. Through the Nehru Yuva Kendra, Ithu Ente Bhoomi will be distributed to the youth development centres in the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ithu Ente Bhoomi\u2019 is dedicated to<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Carson\" target=\"_blank\"> Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring<\/a>, a book released in 1962 and considered as the spark that helped launch the American environmental movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ithu Ente Bhoomi (It\u2019s my Earth), a 17-minute documentary was released as part of the \u2018Paristhithi\u2019 campaign launched by the State Department of Environment and Climate Change at a function held at Nila Theatre by Minister Shashi Tharoor. The documentary was directed by P.Y. Anilkumar, Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre Environment Vision, an NGO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}