Cotton for my shroud Promo 2 End
Channel: Kavita Bahl
Date: 18/11/2012

As companies that produced poisons for biological warfare during the cold war positioned their deadly wares as agricultural inputs, the last few decades have seen humans waging war upon themselves.

Vidarbha, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, has become a bloody battleground in this ongoing global war. 

'Cotton for my shroud' investigates how Monsanto manipulated Bt Cotton field trials, enticed gullible farmers with lies about yields and reduction in pesticide use. 

Since 1995, a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide - the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history.
 
While the state labels these deaths as suicide, the cotton fields of Vidarbha remain a mute witness to genocide.

The film gives us a window into the drama and despair that forms the warp and weft of life at Vidarbha.