August, 2021 This article deals with the repercussions of the debt cycle among women work from low income households and solutions to tackle the same 7 minutes read Poverty reduction efforts have been ubiquitous since the turn of the century; especially [...]
August, 2021 This piece emphasizes on the importance of investing your money and what it means for women informal workers in rural India 6 minutes read Apply the power of compounding to a time investment in understanding investing, and we have [...]
August, 2021 This article tackles the complex relationship between work and savings, and how it manifests itself in the heavily unregulated informal work industry 7 minutes read While the ‘unorganised’ informal economy now accounts for roughly half of India’s GDP, it [...]
August, 2021 A school memory, in retrospect, reveals the terms and conditions of the fundamental right to health. 2 minutes read In school we never talked about anyone except ourselves; nothing and no one could be more important. One fine day, [...]
August, 2021 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. 5 minutes read We live in [...]
August, 2021 Ever curious about the Indian handicraft industry primarily run by women but afraid to approach journals covered with dense data? Fear not! Here’s your cheat sheet. 6 minutes read ‘Empowering women is a prerequisite for creating a good nation, [...]
June, 2021 Experiencing the life of a domestic worker - just the usual half day in the life of your bai, didi, akka, kaku, maid 4 minutes read 4:30AM: I wake up, Nidhi and her papa look so peaceful when they’re [...]
May, 2021 From the Editor's Desk - Snippets of what The Blue Divide brought to you in April and May 2021 2 minutes read The second wave of the pandemic took everyone by storm. Everyone one would speak to was suffering [...]
June, 2021 Movie review: An introspective feminist analysis of the movie Roma, a 2018 Spanish-language drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón 3 minutes read Multi-award winning film Roma is semiautobiographical in nature as it draws direct inspiration from the director, [...]
June, 2021 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 4 minutes read Much has been said in praise of Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad which released at [...]