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Articles by TTE Team

The Third Eye is being written and developed by a team of educators, documentary filmmakers, storytellers; people with extensive experience of gathering narratives, oral histories and developing contextual pedagogies for the rural and the marginalised.

Age of Learning: A Film About A Mother’s Return to the Classroom

September 10, 2025

Many years ago, in the hills of Nepal, 12-year-old Shuvangi walked to school with her mother, who was headed to a classroom of her own. It was a school meant for adult education, and for some time, mother and child were students together. Her mother, eventually, had to give it up in favour of the responsibilities that awaited her in the household, and with it, the possibility of a different life eroded under the weight of duty.

Queering The Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai

August 30, 2025

Queering the Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai is a short film that traces the legacy of historian and writer Saleem Kidwai. Best known for co-editing Same-Sex Love in India, a landmark text in the fight against Section 377, Saleem’s life also opened up quieter, radical possibilities of the queer lens — ones that transcended binaries, rewrote cultural hierarchies, and made room for joy, complexity, and chosen kinship.

Rapture and Distress: Unpacking Women’s Sexuality in India with Psychoanalyst Amrita Narayanan

June 11, 2025

In this episode of Back Story, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Amrita Narayanan explores the raptures and distress that shape women’s sexuality in modern India. Drawing from her book ‘Women’s Sexuality and Modern India’ (Oxford University Press), Amrita takes us through years of psychoanalytic work and intimate conversations with women. What emerges is a granular map of sexuality– where guilt, pleasure, internalized shame, and familial influence coalesce.

The Act of Doing

February 21, 2025

A day that is ordinary? A day within the everyday? Feminists have theorised the everyday extensively. Everyday is when the doing happens. The work is done. The cooking, the editing of the draft, the googling, the waiting for the eggs to boil, legwork, emails, paying of bills, waiting with the camera as the time lapse happens, finding the letters for that one word in Rathi, having a drink with a Tharu brewer in Chitwan. All of these are the doing. The Act of Doing, the critical step before making.

The Thin Blue Line between Care and Ethics of Care in an Indian Prison

February 4, 2025

Through her recent work on a public interest litigation, Maitreyi’s understanding of mental health in prisons saw a shift. What happens when care turns paternalistic? Can the promise of freedom be used as a tool to negotiate/manipulate? Are our imagined alternatives to this system any better? This interview is an attempt to make sense of some of these questions.

Law and (Brahmanical) Order

January 17, 2025

Imagine you were out for wedding shopping and three days later, you die in police custody because they thought you were a thief. Or that you were arrested on suspicion of murder, simply because you were within a 5 KM radius from the crime scene.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 4

January 9, 2025

In the last episode of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa shares a lasting memory of Sarita as she knocks at Prayas’ door once again, this time with a desire to learn.

At TTE, we are very invested in expanding the notion of the field, and bring to life the lives of various people who make a field humane.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 3

January 9, 2025

When Sarita knocks on Prayas’ door, it is not always a problem that she brings. Sometimes, she brings a unique solution which makes one look at the problem differently. In the Episode 3 of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa recounts an anecdote where Sarita saved the day and refused to bargain while she was at it.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 2

January 9, 2025

We all remember the lockdown. Some remember it like yesterday and others believe it happened a long time ago. But, what did 2020 look like for sex workers and social workers? In the Episode 2 of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa tells us Sarita’s response to the lockdown.