The UN Peacekeeping Forces

Blue Caps : Director: Karuna Kumar | Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2008



So, my sister, who is presently in London doing her Masters in Media Management, made a documentary on the UN Peacekeeping Forces in 2008, as her final project for her Bachelors Programme in Mass Media and Mass Communication, from Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi.
It got selected for the Online Film Festival, 'Culture Unplugged', recently.Here is a link to her film.
Link

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2024/Blue-Caps

Please do go and watch it!We have had 45 viewings so far and it would be great to have you watch it and share your opinions and comments.Here is a synopsis of the film for your reference. :)


Synopsis: All soldiers fight for the love of motherland. Who fights for all humanity? Who are the people upholding the cause of World Peace? 'Blue Caps' is a half an hour documentary about the role of the Indian Army in United Nations Peacekeeping. The film captures how officers of the Indian Army are selected for UN peacekeeping missions, their training in recreated zones of hostility that need to be neutralized and how these peacekeepers, recognized by their blue military caps, try and execute the work of the UN in areas like Sudan, Nigeria, Algeria, etc. The film also covers important aspects like rules of engagement with the locals, learning their cultures and how to get acceptance and trust of the people. Peacekeeping involves defense officers from various countries working together as a team. How do they manage to do so despite any political or ideological differences their respective countries might have? How is it that an army officer from India is able to work with an officer from Pakistan or China to serve for a bigger cause? What would happen if there's a casualty or hostile situation on foreign grounds? All this and more in the documentary Blue Caps.

grappling with the right feeling

Egon Schiele

If I am still here it is because there is something about this affair that literally paralyses me, strikes me dumb.How can I explain this to you.

You are your deepest driving desire.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As you will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is so is your destiny.

Upanishads


Thank you Milann for reminding me once again.

Its time.Its time to want no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

there is no sun without a shadow and it is essential to know the night.

When I returned from so many journeys,
I stayed suspended and green
between sun and geography -
I saw how wings worked,
how perfumes are transmitted
by feathery telegraph,
and from above I saw the path,
the springs and the roof tiles,
the fishermen at their trades,
the trousers of the foam;
I saw it all from my green sky.
I had no more alphabet
than the swallows in their courses,
the tiny shining water
of the small bird on fire
which dances out of the pollen.

Neruda

Consolidating a culture and its people

'The most crucial thing that is happening to our civilization is that it is in the process of becoming a civilization of specialists.Each one of us is more and more locked into his own domain, and incapable of leaving it.There is no one nowadays who has the capacity to decipher both an ancient inscription and a modern scientific formula.Culture and the common treasure of mankind have become the prey of the specialists.The only task necessary for mankind in the search for that unity of culture was, through the work of every individual, to try to reassemble the scattered fragments of the universal culture that is being lost.'

Jean Renoir

The Run Up

As a writer I have a natural right to my subjects, because my past is my own.
If their course lies out of the beaten path of organized social life,
it is perhaps because I myself did in a sort break away from it early,
in obedience to an impulse which must have been very genuine since it has
sustained me through all my dangers of disillusion.
The mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations.
The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.
To do that I had to create them, reproduce for them, to envelope them in their proper atmosphere of actuality.
The conscious rendering of truth in thought, and fact which has always been my aim.

- Conrad