In this new episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Dipta Bhog narrates ‘Hekdi’, a story by writer Vijaydan Detha. This story is taken from the Hindi translation of his anthology ‘Batan Ri Phulwadi’ published by Rajasthani Granthagar.
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?
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?”
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.
In this series, we bring you gender stories from Nirantar’s archives as well as from the Hindi fictional world at large. These stories have been used in facilitation by various gender groups, and are also great conversation starters for difficult, tricky and conflicting issues that emerge while working with communities.
Meena, Annie and Nayantara–‘the three girls from St. Agnes’–feel that they rule the world. They are dancers, they light cities on fire travelling from festival to festival, they revel in each other, and oh that glory–friendships.
In this episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Swati Kashyap narrates a transcreation of Maitri Pushpa’s story ‘Tum Kiski Ho Binni?’. When Binni’s mother becomes pregnant after having given birth to two girls, everyone believed that it would be a boy but instead, it was Binni. This is what happened next.
In the third episode of the series Bolti Kahaniyan, we bring to you the story—Aate Sane Haath. Everyone has the Right to Education, but what difficulties does a girl face in order to complete her education?
In Episode 2, Listen to Beta Kiska, which gives birth to a metaphor you’ll never forget.
Where Anita brings us stories from the field, stories that became part of Nirantar’s Pitara as pieces of fiction that had an uncanny resemblance to lived realities. Each story is shared with women’s collectives in the rural and semi-urban areas, to spark off unlikely, sometimes unnerving conversations.
