The Third Eye: Public Health Edition, Ep. I
June 19, 2021
This week, listen to Ashish Kothari, Dr. Sanjida Arora (CEHAT), Menaka Rao and Clifton D’ Rozario lay out a public health landscape and wish list.
This week, listen to Ashish Kothari, Dr. Sanjida Arora (CEHAT), Menaka Rao and Clifton D’ Rozario lay out a public health landscape and wish list.
Dr. Sanjida Arora is a doctor and public health researcher at the Mumbai-based Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT). Here, she talks about how public health systems can serve the public better if there was more reflection on gender biases and structural violence.
Clifton D’Rozario is a lawyer and livelihoods activist. Here, D’Rozario talks about how the struggle for equality should be paramount in policy creation, whether for education, food security or public health.
The Third Eye’s new series, Back Story, breaks down research, praxis, and lesser-know insights for a wider, non-academic audience, to help us all make sense of the world with a little more wonder, a little more depth. In Episode 1, we meet Panchali Ray, author of Politics of Precarity…
Can a girl choose who or how she wants to love? Can a boy choose who he wants to marry? If a girl says ‘I do’ to her partner and both of them consensually fall in love before the legal age of marriage, is there space for that love to exist?
In cinema, the working woman is often managing the twin axes of shame and pride. What is the work she is supposed to do? What is she not? We take two cinematic pieces- which focus on women and work…
Annie Raja is the General Secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women. In over 65 years of its existence, the NFIW has rallied behind issues that affect women’s rights as workers, as well as their full citizenship in this country.
“Stay at home, stay safe. Just chill out at home, everyone told us,” murmur many young women in long distance phone calls, voice notes and Whatsapp messages, tenuous lines keeping us together during lockdown.
The Third Eye presents a new video series that invites spoken word artists, performers and theatre practitioners to interpret lesser known womxn’s writings, those that offer an alternative history of India.
“My mom has been going to office since forever. The lockdown was the first time she was constantly with us at home.” Shivam found a 16 mm filter on Instagram and decided to make short videos of his mother at work.