What the Fields Remember is a documentary based on Nellie massacre. It has been produced by Public Service Broad Casting Trust and directed by Subasri Krishnan.Synopsis
On 18 February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims were killed in the town of Nellie and its surrounding villages in Assam, India. People’s homes were burnt down and their fields destroyed. Most of those who died were old people, women and children. Till date the Nellie massacre, remains on the margins of India’s public history, and is virtually wiped out from the nation’s collective memory.