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Jun 13

Maiden India: Work

Women and work in India, part lived experience and part data — When women of my mother’s generation worked, they mostly had jobs, not careers. The women of my grandmother’s generation worked “out of compulsion”. In the 60s, my father’s mother managed to escape the violence in Bangladesh with her children in tow. One afternoon, she had set off with other women…

Women

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Maiden India: Work
Maiden India: Work

Dec 6, 2021

Mixing Feminism with Shaadi

Shaadi = Marriage in Hindi — My partner and I got married on November 17th in the most pared down Indian wedding situation possible. We drove 2 hours to a court in UP to get our registration done since courts in Delhi were not functional because of peak pollution and restricted activities. I could not have…

Gender

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Mixing Feminism with Shaadi
Mixing Feminism with Shaadi

Nov 15, 2021

A (blissful) week in South Karnataka

I would pay my partner, Anurag, to have him plan trips for me. He is very good at it. Instead, I get to go on beautifully laid out trips for free. I have spent the past week jouncing across South Karnataka following his itinerary assembled over a month. It was…

Travel

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A (blissful) week in South Karnataka
A (blissful) week in South Karnataka

Jun 20, 2021

The (literal) road to Gender Equality

Abstruse real-life meets gender economics musings: learning how to drive in Delhi edition — So I passed my driving test in Delhi this weekend. My father has been after my life for five years now to fix my “mobility problem”. Now that I am finally living in one place in India for more than a year I didn’t have an excuse. He also shipped…

Women

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The (literal) road to Gender Equality
The (literal) road to Gender Equality

May 3, 2021

Reflections

.. and thank you! — In college, I used to write an opinion column called “Abstruse Musings” in our student-run daily newspaper every fortnight. I wanted to be a journalist for a long time but development economics happened to me. Writing changed from sitting in the college library café and thinking hard about what I…

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Reflections
Reflections

May 3, 2021

Boss lady #10: Hansa Jivraj Mehta

Representation at the midnight hour when “India awoke to life and freedom” — Nehru’s famous tryst with destiny speech marks the beginning of the India we know and live in today. There was a jubilant crowd of men and women in front of the Red Fort that night. There were two female voices at the midnight session where independence was declared and celebrated…

Women

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Boss lady #10: Hansa Jivraj Mehta
Boss lady #10: Hansa Jivraj Mehta

Apr 19, 2021

Boss lady #9: Ela(ben) Bhatt

The “gentle revolutionary” — “Poverty is violence, and with the consent of the society” — Ela Bhatt (endearingly known as Elaben). Elaben has easily done the most for the ~200 million women who constitute India’s informal or invisible labor force, which in turn represents the nature of 92% of India’s entire labor force. She…

Women

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Boss lady #9: Ela(ben) Bhatt
Boss lady #9: Ela(ben) Bhatt

Apr 12, 2021

Boss lady #8 : Isher Judge Ahluwalia

The Bonnie of the Bonnie & Clyde of India’s 1991 liberalization reforms — The protagonist of my next blog is a relatively familiar name. Perhaps most widely known for her stalwart leadership at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and her book, Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation Since the Mid Sixties which gave intellectual direction to the liberalization reforms…

Women

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Boss lady #8 : Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Boss lady #8 : Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Apr 5, 2021

Boss lady #7 : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Literally one of the first superstars in Indian public health policy — I was delighted to discover that India’s first Health Minister was a woman — protagonist of my present blog, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (RAK). You may have heard of RAK in her role as the founder of AIIMS, one of the country’s finest higher education institutions, and definitely the best medical…

Women

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Boss lady #7 : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Boss lady #7 : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Mar 29, 2021

Boss lady #6: Krishna Bharadwaj

A formidable economic theorist who did not come from privilege — Krishna Bharadwaj (KB) was the youngest Indian economist to engage with political economy theory, specifically applying theory to understand the challenges of agriculture in India. Unlike her contemporaries, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, and Amartya Sen, her training in economics was entirely at home and this was a conscious choice. …

Economics

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Boss lady #6: Krishna Bharadwaj
Boss lady #6: Krishna Bharadwaj
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