Articles by Purnima Gupta

Purnima is a feminist and women's rights activist. She has been working with Nirantar Trust since 1998 and has been involved in various aspects of training and capacity building of community-based organisations working on women's literacy. She has an expertise in developing teaching-learning material for adult education programmes, review and evaluation of programmes, and research and advocacy. Purnima is one of the founding members of Sahjani Shiksha Kendra and Nazariya Foundation. She has a masters degree in clinical psychology from BHU (UP).

What We Learnt by Teaching Women to Write Letters

August 12, 2022

It’s been over 20 years since I started working on women and adolescent girls’ literacy. Twenty years, and I still continue to feel that letter writing is a significant pedagogical tool in the teaching-learning process of any literacy or education programme.