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Savitribai Phule

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Happy Birthday Wala Letter

January 5, 2021

A young girl in 21C India writes a letter to Savitribai Phule. Savitribai Phule was the first woman to be a teacher, and also the first person to set up a school for girls in India.

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    Making Textbooks Feminist

    In 2005, Nirantar worked with NCERT to make textbooks ‘gender sensitive’ (as the request had been phrased). Those Social Science textbooks have been in circulation and in classrooms for 15 years. In 2022, some of the work Nirantar did in chapters around caste was deleted. We made a film about this.
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