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 [...]
May, 2021 A look at the abysmal conditions faced by menstruating women in the Indian informal sector, with a focus on the garment industry 5 minutes read Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM), as defined in 2012 by a Joint Monitoring Program of the WHO [...]
March, 2021 An attempt to lift the veil off the female manual scavengers who are non-existent on paper 4 minutes read Although, ideally, ethically and constitutionally, one should not have to - picture a manual scavenger… I bet most of the [...]
January, 2021 A brief run-through of the history of manual scavenging to show the inseparability of caste and manual scavenging 4 minutes read Uncles who scoff about reservations, and aunties who give water to the waste and sanitation worker in a [...]
November, 2020 In conversation with Rohena Gera and Tillotama Shome about what it means to cast a domestic worker in the film, “Is love enough? SIR” as a lead in a class-driven society such as ours. We speak about the complex issues of class, privilege, norms, dreams, [...]
November, 2020 Exploring the various intersections to one’s identity and the barriers experienced by women in the waste and sanitation industry 5 minutes read Without the Waste and Sanitation Industry, our cities and states cannot function with the same efficiency that [...]
November, 2020 Exploring the various intersections to one’s identity and the barriers experienced by women in the specialised Beedi manufacturing industry 5 minutes read When we think about the well-fed narrative of women standing shoulder-to-shoulder with men in this “day and [...]
November, 2020 Dignity and domestic work - sounds like an oxymoron? Read to find out why the dignity of a domestic worker should matter 3 minutes read I belong to a well to do family. I shifted from my village to [...]
October, 2020 A poem on the work conditions of women in the informal sector 3 minutes read She weaves, rolls papads and beedis to earn survival, Her world revolves in concentric circles, No sunrise brings her hope and vigor, No Sunset [...]