“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
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.
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.
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.
What was the last film you remember watching? What was the last film you remember watching that was directed by a woman?
Like us, perhaps you too find yourself wondering about the division of labour of work at home. Who does it?
What does a farmer look like? Whatever the image that sprang to your mind just now it’s likely to have been the image of a man.
Jeeja Ghosh, a disability rights activist, speaks to the differently abled during the Covid 19 lockdown, and finds them missing from all policy debates.
Can consent culture be introduced into workspaces? A series of short films offer an interesting starting point.