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Nirantar radio: Audio Documentaries
by Nirantar Trust
The recorder is not merely a tool of documentation, but rather a creative instrument that demands we rethink, re-listen, and reflect on our listening patterns. In asking who the recorder is placed in front of, what it catches that we miss, and what we weave together that it cannot pick up, our team at The Third Eye deepens its obsession with the recording of knowledge. Our ‘Audio Documentaries’ are sound-and-narrative explorations voiced from the field. These nonfiction narratives are held in a feminist recitation that moves through the personal, the collective and the political. With a story of a father revisiting his life, or one of a single woman in Kekri, Rajasthan, or then with the feelings of people home alone during the Covid-19 pandemic, these insightful, empathetic and creative portraits of realities of the gro
Episodes
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Dhulai: Menaka on Abortion in India
What does it take for a woman to get a safe abortion in India? When does the court intervene, and in whose favour? Which case of abortion is considered worthy of being granted by Medical Boards? In this audio documentary, Menaka Rao, an award-winning health journalist, examines abortion through…
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Letters from the Criminal Justice System
My workplace is a prison. My client is the prisoner. Who am I? There are many kinds of social workers, but the kind that works in prisons is often asked, "Why would anyone work for prisoners?" "Is my son doing okay? Ask him to come meet me next week." "Madam, there is no vacancy in the shelter...
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Where is Caste? Jaati Kahaan Hai?
Savarnas don’t know caste—the same way a fish does not know water. When you breathe, see, feel, and thrive within a system, it is difficult to notice it, let alone know it. How does a fish then know water? By starting to know itself, of course. When Rohan chooses this way to learn about caste, he...
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Living On Your Own In The Pandemic - Akele Hai Toh Kya Gam Hai
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. In this episode, we meet people who navigated, and continue to navigate these feelings on their own. In ‘Living On Your Own In The...
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Kaam ya Aaram - Gas Pe Dekh Lena
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.…
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Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit - Gender Based Violence and the Bystander Syndrome
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...
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Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit - Technology and Gender Based Violence
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…
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Stay Home, Kitna Surakshit - Gender Based Violence During Lockdown
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...
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Mera Chashma, Mere Rules - Yeh Dil Deewana Bhi Aur Gussa Bhi
When Muskan said “Hamare yahaan yeh sab chalta hi nahi hai” (These things aren’t allowed in our areas), we couldn’t help but notice that she said it for feeling love as well as anger. Shubhangani who had joined the zoom call from Kekri, Rajasthan chimed in by saying that she feels pushed around,...
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Mera Chashma, Mere Rules - Main Kab Badi Huyi
Sahiba learns from Google, calls it her teacher and navigates her everyday—from getting things done to finding about her mental health—on Google. Her questions about the self and measures to take care of that self made everyone on the Zoom call think ‘Main kab badi huyi?’ (When did I grow up?).…
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Mera Chashma, Mere Rules - Meri Surakshit Jagah Kahaan Hai
In feminist organisations and within the academic discourse, we sit with the term ‘safe space’ quite often and roll it in our mouth to reiterate how multifarious and ever changing that term is. But when we asked Muskan and Shomya what it means to them and where they feel the most at home, they...
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Mera Chashma, Mere Rules - Trailer
Tumhari chahat kya hai? Tum kya chahti ho?” (What do you desire?) When was the last time we asked an adolescent what they think about their desires? How can we see their lives from their perspective? Like you, we didn’t know either. So, we decided to meet them online to listen to them with their...
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Ekal In The City Ep 4: Marathwada ki Ekal Mahila Sangathan
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...
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Ekal In The City Ep 3: Akele Aur Chalna Chahiye
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...
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Ekal In The City Ep 2: Ekal Parivaar
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…
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Ekal In The City Ep 1: Khuda Haafiz
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…
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The recorder is not merely a tool of documentation, but rather a creative instrument that demands we rethink, re-listen, and reflect on our listening patterns. In asking who the recorder is placed in front of, what it catches that we miss, and what we weave together that it cannot pick up, our…
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The recorder is not merely a tool of documentation, but rather a creative instrument that demands we rethink, re-listen, and reflect on our listening patterns. In asking who the recorder is placed in front of, what it catches that we miss, and what we weave together that it cannot pick up, our team at The Third Eye deepens its obsession with the recording of knowledge.
Our ‘Audio Documentaries’ are sound-and-narrative explorations voiced from the field. These nonfiction narratives are held in a feminist recitation that moves through the personal, the collective and the political. With a story of a father revisiting his life, or one of a single woman in Kekri, Rajasthan, or then with the feelings of people home alone during the Covid-19 pandemic, these insightful, empathetic and creative portraits of realities of the gro
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Nirantar Trust
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The recorder is not merely a tool of documentation, but rather a creative instrument that demands we rethink, re-listen, and reflect on our listening patterns. In asking who the recorder is placed in front of, what it catches that we miss, and what we weave together that it cannot pick up, our team...
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