“We wish we could give the community solutions, not just collect data.”
July 6, 2021
An ASHA worker explains how the rethinking of her role inside the public health system would wildly improve her life as well as that of the community.
An ASHA worker explains how the rethinking of her role inside the public health system would wildly improve her life as well as that of the community.
To help process the devastation that was the second wave of Covid19, the Third Eye Monday Adda with our rural digital educators invited theatre practitioner Apeksha Vora (hyperlink to author bio) to help make sense of the pain in their bodies, and their neighbourhoods.
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.