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 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.
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.
Menaka Rao is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on health, nutrition and justice. Here, Rao talks about her journey as a journalist reporting on the big, complex and often baffling institutional arrangements that are supposed to ensure our public health and how sometimes their inflexibility and lack of egalitarianism can lead to new health crises.
Feminist economists had long focused on time as a measure of work, or more specifically, as a measure of enumerating women’s work, even before we zoomed in on the endless time and labour women continued to expend on doing, doing, doing as the world ‘stayed at home’ during the pandemic.
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.
