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Episode 9

फ se Field, श se Shiksha Ep 9: Chhoti Bahu

Chhoti Bahu
“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. 

“फ se Field, श se Shiksha” is a series of 10 audio stories coming from the lived experiences and imaginations of education in rural India. 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 take us along on their journeys of shiksha. In this episode, three writers reflect on what education did to them as they followed their roles of being a daughter-in-law at home and social worker in their organisation.

Narrated by Rajkumari Ahirwar and Arti Ahirwar

Written by Rajkumari Prajapati, Rajkumari Ahirwar, and Arti Ahirwar

Produced by Madhuri Adwani

Title track written by Arun Gupta and performed by Vedi.

Instrumental track by Shabnam Virmani.

We would like to thank the Aahvaan Project for giving us permission to use their song “Na Dekh Aankhon Se” by Arun Gupta as our title track and Shabnam Virmani for lending us the notes of her musical instrument.  For their valuable time and feedback, we would like to thank Lakshmi from Chambal Media; and Anita and Prarthana from Nirantar.

Stay tuned for new stories every Monday and Wednesday.

Email us at [email protected] and tell us about your education journey and the experiences of education these stories reminded you of.

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.
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