We have been meeting single women in small-town and rural India in our Ekal podcast series. In Episode 4, we meet a collective of single women in Marathwada, Maharashtra. What happens when the singular turns into a collective? The answers were manifold. Along with solidarity, sisterhood and revolution, the collective opened an ekal-hood that encompasses ideas of kaam (work), aaraam (rest), bandhuta (friendship), gyaan (knowledge), samadhan (resolution), astitva (existence) and adhikaar (rights)....
Oct 14, 2022•28 min
Remember when we thought we would always be 16? When we thought we’ll take over the world? Meena, Annie and Nayantara–‘the three girls from St. Agnes'–feel that they rule the world. They are dancers, they light cities on fire travelling from festival to festival, they revel in each other, and oh that glory–friendships. Then, college ends. How far do we carry love from our college friendships? When and where does it go? Nisha Susan's story ‘The Trinity’ from her collection The Women Who Forgot To...
Sep 07, 2022•26 min
In this episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Swati Kashyap narrates a transcreation of Maitri Pushpa's story ‘Tum Kiski Ho Binni?’. When Binni's mother becomes pregnant after having given birth to two girls, everyone believed that it would be a boy but instead, it was Binni. This is what happened next. 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 ...
Jul 07, 2022•9 min
In this episode, Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own travels to the tehsil of Ajmer, Kekri in Rajasthan, and meets Annu, a 31-year-old woman who gives it her own meaning. What does this room look like today? Annu talks about being ekal (single) in her room on a terrace, where she embarks on building a relationship with herself and her small town, more romantic and introspective than any other relationship she has been in. Annu's every day in this room, through the lens of a single woman, is poe...
May 30, 2022•23 min
What does it mean to be a single woman, when it’s not in a metropolis? What are the experiences of being single, without the romanticisation of the urban? What is the nature of singlehood that may not yet be defined, but may be as rich as life itself? How single women make their homes and live and love in smaller towns and villages, is what we set out to document in Ekal in the City. We explore different kinds of ekal - being single - to celebrate life in its many ways of being. In the second ep...
Mar 22, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 2
पटना में रहनेवाली स्वाती को कहानियां सुनना-सुनाना पसंद है. वे रोज़मर्रा की ठेठ कहानियों को अपने बिहारी तड़के के साथ हमारे सामने ला रही हैं. स्वाती इन कहानियों के ज़रिए कुछ बेड़ियों को टटोलती हैं और उन्हें चुनौती देती हैं. पटनावाली की तीसरी क़िस्त में स्वाती हमें सुना रही हैं कहानी घर घर की. इस कहानी के लिए चित्रांकन आकृति अग्रवाल ने किया है. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nirantar-trust93/message See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information....
Feb 28, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 3
What does it mean to be a single woman, when it’s not in a metropolis? What are the experiences of being single, without the romanticisation of the urban? What is the nature of singlehood that may not yet be defined, but may be as rich as life itself? How single women make their homes and lives and loves in smaller towns and villages, is what we set out to document. In the first episode of the series, we bring to you a conversation between two types of 'singlehood'—a 25-year-old Madhuri from Del...
Jan 28, 2022•25 min
एक शहर में जाने कितने क़िस्से होते हैं! कुछ क़िस्से हममें होते हैं और कुछ क़िस्सों में हम होते हैं. पटना में रहनेवाली स्वाती को कहानियां सुनना-सुनाना पसंद है. वे रोज़मर्रा की ठेठ कहानियों को पटनहिया अंदाज में सजाकर हमारे सामने ला रही हैं. स्वाती इन कहानियों के ज़रिए कुछ बेड़ियों को टटोलती हैं और उन्हें चुनौती देती हैं. पटनावाली की दूसरी क़िस्त में स्वाती हमें मिला रही हैं ‘संस्कारानंद’ से जिनकी तर्क-विद्य़ा से आपके भी होश उड़ जाएंगें. एक ट्रेनिंग के दौरान 16 साल के लड़के से हुई मुलाक़ात और उसकी परेशानी ...
Dec 20, 2021•7 min
We are turning an inward eye to look at our mental experiences, and how they intersect with societal structures. In an attempt to move away from pathological and clinical readings and move towards lived experiences, our podcast series Mann Ke Mukhaute interweaves fictional stories and experiential voice notes. We have tried hard and not been able to find the English word for ‘mann’ - the Hindi word that brings together brain, mind and heart, and hints at an intuitive inner truth. In the third ep...
Nov 22, 2021•30 min•Ep. 3
पटना में रहनेवाली स्वाती को कहानियां सुनना सुनाना पसंद है. वे रोज़मर्रा की ठेठ कहानियों को अपने बिहारी तड़के के साथ हमारे सामने ला रही हैं. स्वाती इन कहानियों के ज़रिए कुछ बेड़ियों को टटोलती हैं और उन्हें चुनौती देती हैं. बिहार में अक्सर जब कोई लड़की ब्याह कर ससुराल आती है तो वो जया, सुषमा, अनीता के नाम से नहीं पहचानी जाती बल्कि वो दरभंगा वाली, मुज़फ्फरपुरवाली, बेगूसराय वाली पटनावाली जैसे नामों से जानी जाती हैं. सिर्फ़ नाम ही नहीं कई बार मर्ज़ी से बाहर घूमनेवाली औरतों को परकट्टी, बलकट्टी जैसे नामों से न...
Nov 15, 2021•8 min
When going into the cinema turned into clicking through OTT platforms during the pandemic, we adapted to the 1920 x 1080 screen size and relegated the good ol' Talkies to nostalgia. But cinema is not only a medium for story-telling, is it? It also stands as a character, bearing witness to a changing city—who enters, who leaves mid-way, and who stays. Gulabi Talkies, Vaidehi's story in Kannada, tells the story of a single-screen theatre in a small town shaking up women's lives like a storm in a t...
Oct 04, 2021•20 min
अनीता ज़मीन से जुड़े मुद्दों की कहानियां सीधे फ़ील्ड के बारास्ते हमारे लिए लेकर आती हैं. ये कहानियां निरंतर संस्था द्वारा प्रकाशित पत्रिका 'आपका पिटारा' में प्रकाशित हुई हैं. इन्हें संस्था से जुड़े फील्ड वर्कशॉप्स में सुनाया गया है और काफी पसंद भी किया गया है. इन कहानियों को ऑडियों में प्रस्तुत करने की प्रक्रिया में पहले इन्हें हमारी सहयोगी संस्थाओं की महिलाओं के साथ चर्चा कर, कहानी पर उनकी प्रतिक्रियों को जानने एवं समझने का प्रयास किया जाता है. ये चर्चाएं कभी गहरी, कभी रोचक और कभी चौका देने वाल...
Oct 04, 2021•11 min
In Episode 2, Listen to Beta Kiska, which gives birth to a metaphor you'll never forget. बोलती कहानियां में अनीता हमारे लिए फील्ड से कहानियां और चर्चाएं लेकर आती हैं. इस एपिसोड में आइए सुनते हैं 'बेटा किसका?' और जानते हैं कि इस सवाल पर कैसे वीरमति ने सबकी बोलती बंद की. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nirantar-trust93/message See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.
Oct 04, 2021•8 min
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. In Episode 1, listen to our favourite Roti Banaye Tantu , where a husband and a wife exchange places for a day. जहां अनीता हमारे लिए फील्ड से लेकर आती हैं ऐसी कहानियां, जो निरंतर की ‘आपका पिटारा’ ...
Oct 04, 2021•7 min
As part of our series 'Mann ke Mukhaute' exploring mental landscapes from an experiential standpoint, the second episode features Sudha Arora’s story Rahogi Tum Wahi , an account of a woman at the other end of emotional violence. Looking at the interplay of abuse and the innovative coping mechanisms women devise to survive, this episode suggests, teases and evokes a universe, as experienced by a woman inside her home over the years. Also featuring, Purnima Gupta of Nirantar Trust. Jacket Image: ...
Sep 20, 2021•11 min
As part of our Public Health issue, we are turning an inward eye to look at our mental experiences, and how they intersect with the health and state systems. In an attempt to move away from pathological and clinical readings and move towards learning from lived experiences, our podcast series Mann Ke Mukhaute interweaves fictional stories and experiential voice notes. We are locating our site of exploration in the mann - the Hindi word that brings together brain, mind and heart, and hints at an ...
Sep 09, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 1
As the outside slowly opens up to life after the deadly second wave of the pandemic, the inside is still grappling with absence, loss, death, fear and loneliness. This episode we meet people who navigated, and continue to navigate these feelings on their own. In ‘Living On Your Own In The Pandemic' , five folx from rural and urban speak to The Third Eye about their experiences of solitude and confinement; what one learns, how one copes, what one laughs about, who do they call, who rang the bell?...
Jun 16, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Kaam ya Aaraam? Is that a gendered question? While the rest of us are watching #TheGreatIndianKitchen , we thought we will go to a real one. This audio story then, straight from ours to yours. The year is 2020. A mother and daughter meet again during lockdown. A pot of milk keeps boiling over. The kitchen becomes fraught, angry, memories are triggered. A mother and daughter meet again during lockdown. The kitchen becomes the place they see each other, as if for the first time. The rest of the ho...
Feb 05, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In Episode III of Stay Home, Kitna Surakhsit? we explore the role of the bystander - yes, people like you and me - in situations of gender based violence. Why don’t we intervene? How do we justify walking on? What are we afraid of? Is there a way to protect the bystander? Madhuri speaks to people across cities, towns and villages to make sense of Bystander Syndrome and comes away with some psychological truths we may not have articulated before. Feat: Iti Rawat of Red Dot and Iram Ahmedi of Bemb...
Jan 05, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 3
If more people are online, where does the violence go? Apparently, also online. In Episode 2 of Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit?, Madhuri meets Bishakha Datta of Point of View and Uttanshi Agarwal of One Future Collective, to try and make sense of our digital selves, transgressions of online identities, the public-private-corporate dance over our data. And they help us see that there is way more we can do, legally, in response to technology-enabled gender based violence. --- Send in a voice message: ...
Nov 16, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit ? We have heard about the spike in violence at homes, during lockdown. In Ep. 01 of Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit? we meet Sangeeta Rege of CEHAT in Bombay and Rituparna Borah of Nazariya, as they take us through the response systems organizations have had to develop overnight, to help women and queer persons stuck at home with their oppressors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nirantar-trust93/message See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information....
Oct 17, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
On Nirantar Radio, presented by The Third Eye, we see sound explorations, podcasts, stories, radio essays, which help build a grassroots to policy level conversation around gender and patriarchy. We hear voices from the field which reflect on the self and everything around them as voice notes and stories. We also delve into fiction and feminist stories to ask important questions. The Third Eye is a bilingual feminist learning platform for educators, teachers, grassroots workers, policymakers, re...
Oct 15, 2020•42 sec
