# OpenSpeaks-him-Bangani-Jayprakash Chauhan-SP-Access in Bangani

In this video, Jayprakash Chauhan, a speaker of the Bangani language of India, shares about the then status quo of access to information and the online use of Bangani in his native language. Interviewed in 2019 by Subhashish Panigrahi during his 2021 documentary film, MarginalizedAadhaar. Unused or trimmed archival footage from the film was edited by Panigrahi and published under the OpenSpeaks Archives project in 2025. Hindi and English subtitles are by Panigrahi.

Metadata

Project/Film name: OpenSpeaks

Cast: Jayprakash Chauhan

Language: Bangani

Runtime: 1.35

Color: Color

Sound: Stereo

Genre: Documentary

Topic: Language documentation

Release date: 2025-12-16

/EIDR: 10.5240/5F6D-2953-862E-22B5-5DBD-2

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Producer: Subhashish Panigrahi

Director: Subhashish Panigrahi

Cinematographer: Subhashish Panigrahi

Editor: Subhashish Panigrahi

Subtitle editor: Subhashish Panigrahi

Cite as

OpenSpeaks: "OpenSpeaks-him-Bangani-Jayprakash Chauhan-SP-Access in Bangani.webm", Subhashish Panigrahi, DOI: 10.5240/5F6D-2953-862E-22B5-5DBD-2 (2025-12-16)

This media is part of OpenSpeaks, an initiative to document Indigenous and other low-resourced languages and support language archivists. Content published with Open Access under a Creative Commons license.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Psubhashish
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OpenSpeaks-him-Bangani-Jayprakash_Chauhan-SP-Access_in_Bangani.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Psubhashish
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/180033819?play=1)