A (social) earthquake of epic proportions rocks Geeta’s colony. A girl in the neighbourhood has eloped with a boy from another caste. The aftershocks will now be felt in every other house in the area.
This young man has passed the board examinations, but the real challenge is to resist his family’s pressure for arranged marriage. Here’s a tale of confusions, anxieties, and frustrations that go into the making of a man finding his voice.
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.
Nasreen from Kashmiri Gate tells us how rooftops play a double-edged role in a young girl’s life. As she takes us through the city as she has lived and experienced it, we jump across states, only to find her running and gasping for breath.
What does it mean to look at your city through your experience? In the first part of her narrative, Nasreen looks at the metropolis of Delhi from the terrace of her house in Kashmiri Gate, the only space where she can move freely.
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.
Beyond gender categories, there is the actual living of lives. Srija met Rajam Akka in a chance encounter at a construction site.
