Articles by TTE Team

Filmmaker and artist Shabnam Virmani initiated the Kabir Project in 2002, seeking the meanings and relevance of Kabir’s poems and songs for our contemporary worlds. Kabir was a 15th Century poet who lived in Benares and is part of the Bhakti tradition. Her inspiration in this poetry and its wisdom has taken the shape of a series of award-winning films, books, urban festivals, rural yatras, and a digital archive called Ajab Shahar.

Muktasree Chakma is a researcher, journalist, feminist, and rights activist. She also runs a platform called Supporting People and Rebuilding Communities (SPaRC), which works on minorities’ rights in Bangladesh.

Malobika is a queer feminist activist, engaged in the LGBTQ rights movement in India for the last 23 years. She is the co-founder of the collective Sappho, and also set up the organization Sappho for Equality in Kolkata, in 2004.

In a quiet and layered way, Sarala Emmanuel walks us through what it meant to ‘become’ a feminist activist and work towards peace in times of conflict in Sri Lanka.

Tooba Syed, feminist researcher, trainer, writer, organiser, and teacher, works on issues of gender, violence, rights of the marginalised, housing, and feminist education in Pakistan. Tooba’s been going for marches since she was 17, and in this interview, she traces her journey of starting out as a model, to discovering feminism, to working with the Left movement in Pakistan.

Dr. Uma Chakravarti, feminist historian, filmmaker, and activist, points to what connects us, culturally and historically, as South Asians.

In 2006, at the peak of the second Jan Andolan, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati found herself back on the streets of Kathmandu, her home in Nepal. She joined the resistance with her camera, both to bear witness, and also to document hundreds of men and women in public spaces to finally topple the monarchy through sustained struggle.

Thus emerged “Borderlines”, a seven-part video series documenting how feminists work, intervene and connect the dots across the region to create knowledge in South Asia.

In May 2022, through a contest “Mera Sapna” (My Dreams) the National Coalition Advocating for Adolescent Concerns (NCAAC).