Nirantar Radio

फ se Field

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.

Episode 4
This young man has passed the board examinations, but the real challenge is to resist his family’s pressure for arranged marriage. Here’s a tale of confusions, anxieties, and frustrations that go into the making of a man finding his voice.  
Episode 3
The Marwari family mocks both Achuki’s aspirations as well as her mother’s lack of a formal education. Will Achuki be able to reason with them or is negotiation the only way?  
Episode 2
With her incessant quips and repartees, Achuki lives up to the meaning of her name in this playful narration. She is a young girl frustrated with her family and the larger Marwari Bania society. Unsure whether to scream or sigh, she wonders, “When will mindsets change?”  
Episode 1
People find a way to be nosy about others’ business everywhere. But there is one question that particularly disrupts Khushi’s peace of mind every single time. Like a pinch of salt on an old wound, the question has different answers as Khushi walks around in the streets of Lucknow.
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“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. 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?
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