PATNA: The famous Sinha library was closed. But outside the gate, Divya Gautam, still in her teens and in the middle of a break from structured education, saw the poster of a film fest, named Cinema of Resistance. Some of the movies she saw that week, Iranian auteur Majid Majidi’s ‘Children of Heaven’, and the documentaries of displacement and forest rights by the Jharkhand filmmaker duo, Meghnath and Biju Toppo, including their aching ‘Gadi Lohardaga Mail’, stayed with her long after the lights came on. It was the beginning of a realisation for Divya that she wanted to do something different. “I wasn’t really interested in the bazaar of competitive examinations for wannabe engineers. I failed the tests,” says the 34-yearold theatre activist-cum-academic, also an unusual CPIML (Liberati

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