COVID 19 Stories Mrs Neiwetso-ϋ is a 38 years old daily wage earner and a member of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) Nagaland unit. She lives with her husband and 2 sons in Pfutsero town of Phek district in Nagaland. As her family migrated to the town in search of better opportunities, they do…
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Women Lead Series Born and raised in a hamlet in Assam’s Udalguri district, Dipali Bora’s life revolved around household chores, fishing and working in her husband’s field. She had always nurtured a desire to be self-reliant and effect change in her society someday but had no idea how to go about it. When a Nari…
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Bajoplin Kharmudai, a resident of Madanryting locality in East Khasi Hills District is a NEN Outreach Worker and an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) under the National Health Mission. On 29 March 2020, Bajop got a distress phone call from a woman (a previous Domestic Violence client), requesting her help to go back home, where…
DetailsAssam Tribune GUWAHATI, May 23 – A number of organisations and women’s rights groups have come out in support of the Guwahati-based woman journalist who was allegedly made to resign from a private news channel on account of her pregnancy. After the incident came to light through various social media platforms, several rights groups have…
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Rekha (name changed) is a domestic worker from Sidli in Chirang District of Assam. She lives and works in Guwahati. With the fourth phase of lockdown due to the COVID 19 Pandemic having eased certain restrictions, she returned to the city on the 18th of May. She had hoped to resume working in the households…
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Women Lead Series In 2013, Usharani Devi was involved in disaster management and women’s empowerment programmes through an organization in Sipajhar village of Darrang district in Assam. A mother of two and wife to a man who did not take her work seriously, she had always wanted to do something that would further the rights…
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Mrs Dinyilhiu is a daily wage worker from Chizami Village. She is a 68-year-old widow who ekes out a living by labouring in other people’s farmlands. A native of the village, she got married to a Nepali man and had lived outside for a long time. After her husband died, however, she returned to Chizami…
DetailsA lot has been said about the relationship between consumerism and weddings in the contemporary Indian context. A 2017 KPMG report had estimated that the Indian wedding business is worth almost 50 billion US dollars, and it increases every year. Luxurious celebrity weddings, destination weddings, and theme-based weddings further contribute to this big industry. Social scientists have…
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One evening, during the pandemic when the entire country was under lockdown, our community mobiliser Moon from Golaghat district received a distress call from an elderly woman. She informed Moon that a few days ago, her married daughter Gita (name changed) had returned home with her five-month-old daughter after being violently beaten up by her…
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Shelter Homes in Assam are not accepting new residents in the absence of relevant guidelines for the COVID 19 Pandemic The safety of our homes has become rhetoric in the political narrative of the COVID 19 Pandemic. For those without it, the government claims to provide for shelter homes. There are over 70 shelter homes…
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