On October 10, observed globally as World Homeless Day, director Kireet Khurana announced The Invisible Visible, a documentary highlighting the plight of over 70 million destitute Indians. The filmmaker views the project as a crusade against the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act 1959, adopted across 22 states, that has criminalised the homeless, making them vulnerable to incarceration, torture and dehumanisation. “It criminalises the act of begging, without addressing basic issues like poverty and homelessness. It also legitimises the arrest of any person for up to three years without a warrant, and gives limitless power to the police,” begins Khurana.

Kireet Khurana