Category: <span>Sangat Blog</span>

By Manmeet Kaur The following is a reflection on Sangat network’s webinar on the issue with panelists Uma Chakravarty, Nalini Nayak and Sowjanya Tamalapakula held on July 25, 2020. The session can be watched here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6ryhItkaQRMhE78y4oo4orL4i-cL_0T/view?usp=sharing   We’re at a crossroads. Of course as a society, but as individuals too. There are multiple threads which make...

Author: Nadia Imtiaz Date: 1 – 10 September 2019 I feel lucky and thankful for many things, events and people in my life. After every small disruption, something extraordinary happens, and I am filled with positive energy. Early this year, I was told that alongwith all the other health issues, I am developing cataract in...

When I was leaving for SANGAT course at Nepal in August, many people thought it was going to be more like honeymoon trip and less class and activities. I won’t blame those thoughts, may be most of courses are like that; there you get more fun time than activities. But I knew from the very beginning...

I was sitting alone in my office room. There was a storm going on in my head! Our office circulated a rule to cut a day’s salary if a faculty is 15 minutes late along with other directives in the line of how long one should stay in the office … all these rules ignoring...

The Sex Worker’s argument:                 “We deserve dignity for our work” Counter argument:                 “But none of you want your daughters to become sex workers” The Sex Worker’s argument:                 “Housewives don’t want their daughters to become housewives in the future, will you abolish marriage because of that?” This piece and illustration was made by...

Illustration by Sara Haas. Sourced from: https://femmagazine.com/about/ Friends! Namaste! Assalam Walekum! Satsriakal! And Hello! First of all we are meeting in a New Year so there is no harm in praying for better days in this New Year. We will all soon come to know how this year will be for our country. All that I...

Friends, I greet all of you, those seated inside the hall and all of you who are watching me on LCD. Friends, I am thankful to the organisers for inviting me back to my home. I am feeling as if I have come to my maika, or my parental home. And today having come to...

Most of the students in the course were men and they were all much younger than her. Not only were all the other students Hindu, they were upper caste Hindu. Meena was the lone Muslim and the authorities were quite surprised that she had come for this course.