Anshu Gupta

Disaster to Dignity - Witnessing Resilience Through the Anshu's lenses

A visual and emotional archive of disasters in India — not through damage, but through dignity. This experience invites you to unlearn what you thought you knew about disasters.

Leh Ladakh 2010 Floods

Beginning of Journey

Impact of Disaster

Contradictions

Emotion

Courage

Covid-19

Take a pause. Rethink what we often overlook.

These are not just images. They are stories. And maybe, mirrors.

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Voiceover Narration

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Goonj is a voice… Goonj is a movement… Meet the man behind the movement… Magasaysay Awardee Anshu Gupta.
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Popularly known as the “Clothing Man”, Anshu created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas.
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Anshu’s efforts to bring wider attention to the most ignored basic need of human i.e., clothing, and its various aspects right from dignity, deaths in winters to the most taboo subject of sanitary pads are getting wider acceptance across the world and many organizations have started replicating GOONJ’s various initiatives.
01:06:35
Founder Director, Goonj Mr Anshu Gupta addresses the Baithak Community of Goonj about the ongoing pandamic. Baithak is a niche group of Social Entrepreneurs & people who wants to start an initiative in the development sector in India. Goonj has conducted 4 Baithaks so far.
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An Ashoka and Schwab Fellow for entrepreneurship and founder of Goonj, he is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay award, World Bank’s Development Marketplace award, Changemakers Innovation award and Jamnalal Bajaj award for Fair Business Practices.

The story doesn’t end with survival. It begins when dignity is restored.

Close with warmth.

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Anshu Gupta