Informal work and finance

This article deals with the repercussions of the debt cycle among women working from low income households and solutions to tackle the same

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Informal work and finance

This article tackles the complex relationship between work and savings, and how it manifests itself in the heavily unregulated informal work industry

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Informal work and finance

This piece emphasizes on the importance of investing your money and what it means for women informal workers in rural India

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Domestic work and life

The tussle between hope and reality

Experiencing the life of a domestic worker – just the usual half day in the life of your bai, didi, akka, kaku, maid

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Informal work and caste

Caste and domestic work

This article aims to explore how arbitrarily instituted gender hierarchies interact with caste hierarchies. It also seeks to enumerate instances of casteism that play out in our day-to-day interactions with our domestic workers

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Garment work and health

Code red

A look at the abysmal conditions faced by menstruating women in the Indian informal sector, with a focus on the garment industry

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Movie review

Movie review: An intersectional analysis of the movie Nil Battey Sannata, a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

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Movie review

Movie review: Roma, a 2018 Spanish-language drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón

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Movie review

Movie review: A character analysis of the domestic worker in the movie Thappad (translation- Slap), a 2020 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Anubhav Sinha

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