P Sainath is a passionate, hot-tempered journalist who has committed his life trying to make the wealthy middle-class of India see the un-seeable in their own country.

Surami Sharma and P.Vohra (Directors), Anoop Babani (producer - Steps In India), Piuysh Shah (Cinemaphotographer)

If India's poorest were a nation on their own, they would comprise the third largest in the world. The poorest of the poor, the country’s bottom 400 million are not viewed as people, not even by the Indian middle class.

Through his stories P.Sainath has exposed the facts that thousands and thousands of farmers have committed suicide out of desperation – while politicians have tried to deny this. These are stories that tell a very different picture of India than the mainstream media does about the rapid economical growth of the middle-class in cities - they are questioning the whole nature of Indian democracy.

Sainath will be the guide and the tool for a film ‘Dying On Fields’. The film team, some of the most talented and upcoming professionals in India, will follow him and allow him to go deeper into some stories, or just one story if it can depict the larger situation.

He will go to the poorest areas of India, discovering untold stories about life in rural India today. These are the people who changed the power structures during the last elections - against all opinion polls and media assumptions.

But is political democracy enough, when social and economical democracy does not exist?

Sainath will also enter into the rooms and lives of power and wealth in India. When he meets prime ministers or visits media houses and Bollywood studios he gives the film team the possibility to shape the questions: Why do the middle class not see the poor? Can democracy exist, if the value of a human being is not seen to be as important and valuable than any other? Is equality not required for democracy? Can we have democracy without equality?