Abstract
The Remembering 1992 website is a part of a larger family of sites under the umbrella of a portal named DiverCity that seeks to present the film and research work of School of Media and Cultural Studies around various themes. The 1970s marked the emergence of the truly independent documentary in the country, which inaugurated and expanded new discursive spaces for dissent and resistance. Described by John Grierson—an influential figure in the realm of documentary film, credited with coining the term documentary in 1926—as ‘creative treatment of actuality’, the form was tasked with presenting an account of the socio-historical world for a social purpose in a manner that was aesthetically satisfying. For most of the history of the documentary film in India, films were largely produced by various agencies of both the colonial and postcolonial state with an aim to educate and transform the masses into citizens who were to play their respective parts with responsibility in the nation-building project.
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