Abstract: Several threads of thoughts were running through my mind, while travelling to my destination, a village called Kavthepiran in Sangli district. I was aware I had undertaken the task of capturing the complexity of a village in the limited…
Abstract: This story of Chinnapillai’s emergence as a leader of the poor and oppressed people in Tamil Nadu, India, is a remarkable story of the struggles of a poor agricultural worker to rise above poverty and at the same time…
Abstract: I write this story of the struggles of poor women, who seek to rise phoenix-like out of a life of abject poverty to carve better lives for themselves and their families, against the backdrop of the ongoing convulsions in…
Abstract: As a hard-working bank employee, a loving wife and mother, a dutiful daughter and daughter-in-law, Mangala Lohiya has been called to fulfil many roles in her life. Despite the difficulties of juggling her multiple roles, Mangala found time to…
Abstract: The following article highlights the key components to women’s SHGs activities and how they have raised themselves to become empowered women of the society. It briefly analyses the economic growth that has taken place due to their commitment to…
(The following article recounts the details of the journey I undertook in the Narmada District. This study concentrates on the role of microfinance among rural agro related women in Narmada district of Gujarat, India.) Keywords: women in agriculture, tribal community,…
Abstract: “Nachni” women from the eastern part of India, are popularly known in parts of Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand as marginal performers who earn their living through a performing partnership with the Rasik (the male partner) while remaining in a…
Abstract: With the words quoted below, Gadis Arivia recalled the start of her own and other women’s feminist activism in Indonesia two decades ago, opening an interview on August 5, 2016 with Margot Badran on women’s activism broadly and on…
Abstract: This article points to women’s calls for a law abolishing triple talaq, or instant divorce of a wife pronounced three time by a husband and denounces the inability of the male AIMPLB [All India Muslim Personal Law Board] to…
Abstract : This paper explores the viability of invitational rhetoric as a mode of advocacy for sustainable energy use in the residential built environment. The theoretical foundations for this study join ecofeminist concepts and commitments with the conditions and resources…
Abstract:The paper analyses the Mookkuthi Samaram and the discarding of kalla and mala as movements that gave bold expressions to the social aspirations of ‘subordinate castes’. While looking at these confrontations through the lens of caste and gender, one can…
Abstract: Subaltern theories of nation, gender and historiography have shown that gender was mobilized to guard the ‘Indian’ against the ‘western’, as part of Indian renaissance. This was, indeed, a play to hide the inadequacies in Indian history. Historical cinema,…
