फ se Field is a podcast show that emerged from The Third Eye Learning Lab’s processes of mentorship, where narratives are built using the feminist lens.
Every story that emerges is an aural landscape, a soundscape of everything that constitutes the ‘field’, and our relationship with it. It could be our field of action, or imagination.
The first season ‘F se Field, Sh se Shiksha’ is a series of 10 audio stories coming from the lived experiences and imaginations of education in rural India. Each episode offers a different take on education and its connections to caste, health, technology, and sexuality. How do we look at education outside classrooms? More importantly, who gets access to education at all? We explore all this and more, as members of our Learning Lab team—Khushi, Manisha, Ajfarul, Rani, Shobha, Vikas, Kulsum, Arti, Choti Rajkumari and Badi Rajkumari take us along on their journeys of shiksha.
In the second season, after going to school, our podcast series is going to jail.
Featuring social workers who work in prison, and the deep relationships that she forms with those on the other side of the law, F se Field, J se Jail brings you four very-short stories narrated by Krupa from Prayas, a field action project based in Mumbai, which does social work intervention in the Criminal Justice System. In these episodes, Krupa tells us of her long-term client and friend, Sarita.
“F se Field, Issh se Isshq” is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived experiences and fantasies of sexuality in India. All these narratives contribute to a feminist way of understanding sexuality by centering the psyche.
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.
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.
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.
After going to school, our podcast series is going to jail.
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.
In this case, it’s the social worker who works in prison, and the deep relationships that she forms with those on the other side of the law.
A young girl employs a clever strategy to get her family’s support for higher education. But she soon discovers that her father is one step ahead of her and thus unravels this love–hate relationship between a father and daughter.
“Chhoti Bahuuu! Arre o Chhoti Bahu!”—is all one hears in the house from dawn to the end of day. Once a mischievous student, Sundari wears many different hats at home, in public, and at work, but there’s one that wears her out.
In the second “Hostel Diary”, Vikas recounts pursuing a crush during his time in Jodhpur with a bittersweetness that can only be afforded by young desire. Although he desperately wants to maintain his “good boy” image, the thrills of Hike Messaging and secret rendezvous might just be too tempting to resist.
As Vikas walks from his own Khatri Hostel to the Oswal Hostel for high-speed movie downloads using a newly installed Jio tower, he observes how caste, class and gender divide access to spaces in the city, offline and online.
All education and science is forgotten when a young, unmarried girl misses her period. As doctors, teachers, family members and friends intervene and interpret, conjectures are made and confusion and fear abound.
