The Queer Eye
February 23, 2022
A city gives identity – and anonymity – to its people. But what happens when a city lacks inclusivity? Are all the behaviours and orientations taken into account while designing a city?
Where we look at the interconnected structures of power such as law, state, religion, caste and class, language, marriage and family, through a feminist lens.
A city gives identity – and anonymity – to its people. But what happens when a city lacks inclusivity? Are all the behaviours and orientations taken into account while designing a city?
Across the world, cities have been designed for men, by men – especially young, healthy, cisgender men. This leads to many challenges – for women, for the young and elderly, transgender community, and anyone else who does not fit into this fairly homogenous group of young, able-bodied men.
In response, or maybe a rejoinder, to urban conversations full of lament – “Why don’t they just get vaccinated? Why are they getting married at this time? Will they ever learn?” – Disha and Kavita of Khabar Lahariya, after decades in rural Bundelkhand, come with a rather gentle reply (all things considered).
In October 2019, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal introduced free bus travel for women in Delhi, adding free fare to a long history of gender-based public transportation policies. While social media forever boils over in heated response, feminist scholarship on gender and public transit helps clear the steam.
A reflection on homes, cities and architecture, whose memories they preserve, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar writes a city memoir disguised as a book review, with some critical questions for city planners who plan for the ‘mainstream’, and not for those who build the cities.
In this interview with The Third Eye, Ravi Duggal makes a compelling case for government intervention with appropriate regulation of the private sector, focusing particularly on the enigma that is health insurance.
What are the caste biases of the Indian healthcare system? How does casteism affect medical education and practice? What happens when you seek help and are told that casteism is not real? In this lucid essay, Dr. Kiran Valake offers a ringside view on the intersections of caste, mental health, and access to care.
In this conversation with TTE, Bijoya analyses how PPPs have shaped the healthcare sector, redefined the role of the state, and influenced health-seeking behaviour over decades in post-liberalised India.
The Third Eye speaks to Rohin about the advantages and pitfalls of the rapid digitisation of the Indian public health system, surveillance and privacy, and the Universal Health ID card.
Reetika Khera, a development economist, talks about public health as an idea, why welfare and dignity must go hand-in-hand, and the models that can inform India’s steps into the future.