The Nagrik Podcast
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At Nagrik Open Civic Learning, we promote Open Educational Resources for civic participation, so that more people can learn to assume active roles in their societies. In this podcast, we will learn from the people who have tried to bring about meaningful change.
Episodes
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Infrastructures for Welfare - How the BoCW System was Built: R. Geetha, Subhash Bhatnagar, Rina Agarwala, Shruti Herbert, Chirayu Jain
Following the announcement of nationwide pandemic control measures in India on March 24, 2020, tens of thousands of daily-wage migrant workers in India suddenly found themselves without jobs or a source of income. At inter-state bus terminals and railway stations in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and...
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Dial W for Wage Theft - the India Labour Line Story: Sushovan Dhar, Sanotsh Poonia, Shreehari Paliath, Chandan Kumar
Yellappa is among thousands of migrant workers who wait every morning at one of Bangalore's several labour stands to seek work from construction contractors. He is one of 56 million people employed in India's construction industry. Nearly all of them are part of India's 411 million informal...
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Ambedkar, Labour Leader: Jesus Chairez, Sumeet Mhaskar, Prabodhan Pol
November 7, 1938, 21 years after the October Revolution and two years after he published his searing critique of Hinduism in The Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar’s Independent Labour Party called for a one-day strike against the passage of the Bombay Industrial Dispute Bill. Among its other...
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Waste Pickers Organising in Neoliberalism: Lakshmi Narayan, Poornima Chikarmane, Jane Barrett, Melanie Samson
The Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (or KKPKP) is a membership-based trade union of waste pickers and itinerant waste buyers in Pune in Maharashtra. Formed in 1993, it wanted to assert waste pickers’ status as workers and their role in the city’s solid waste management. Today, it has over...
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Forests of the People: Purnima Upadhyay, Kesav Gurnule, Mittali Sethi, Sharad Lele, Vandana Dhoop
2021 marked 15 years of the Forest Rights Act and its most transformative provisions - those related to community forest rights and their governance through village gram sabhas. Along with the PESA in 1996, the FRA carved out spaces in the law for community participation in the management and...
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Lawyering for Citizenship: Aman Wadud
In September earlier this year, many of us received a video depicting the violent murder of 33-year-old Moinul Haque during an eviction drive in the Darrang district of Assam. Many of us who saw the video were forced to reflect on what could make a man hate a stranger enough to act with such...
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Labour Organising in Tech - II (IT sector): Devika Narayan, Jai Vipra, Alagunambi Welkin, Vineeth Chandran, Tech Workers Coalition
For several years now, we have all tuned in to a global conversation on the power of technology firms, that included often intersecting themes such as privacy and surveillance; electoral manipulation and democratic backsliding; the sourcing practices of hardware firms; misinformation, hate…
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Labour Organising in Tech - I (Gig and Platform Work): Shaik Salauddin, Vinay Sarathy, Sadhana Sanjay, Aditi Surie, Ayush Rathi
In August and September of 2020, delivery executives of Swiggy struck work in many Indian cities. They wanted to draw attention to the fact that in spite of the Covid 19 pandemic and the steep increase in petrol prices, Swiggy had reduced what was known as the base component of the remuneration...
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The Campaign for HIV-AIDS medicines: Achal Prabhala, Anand Grover, David Legge, Ellen t'Hoen, Fatima Hassan, James Love, and Leigh Haynes
Vaccinating a significant part of the world's population is widely accepted as the most effective strategy to emerge quickly from the Coronavirus pandemic that we find ourselves in. As of May 20, 2021 however, only 3% of India's population has received both doses of any of the three vaccines that...
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The Global Boycott of South African Sports: Sam Ramsamy, Abdul S Minty, John Minto, Bruce Kidd, Sean Jacobs, Doug Booth
From 1948 until the early 1990s, South Africa pursued a system of institutionalised racial segregation known as apartheid. It ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social…
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The Campaign for ILO Convention 177: Renana Jhabvala, Martha Chen, Eileen Boris, Marlese von Broembsen, Dev Nathan
India’s garment sector employs at least 12 million people in factories, but millions more work from their homes. Most of them are women and girls from minority or marginalised communities and the garment sector is not alone in using the labour of home-based workers. Four out of five Indian women…
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The Mahad Satyagraha: Subodh More, Anupama Rao, Ramesh Kamble, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rohit De
The Mahad satyagraha was a landmark event in the history of human rights struggles and in particular, for the struggles of India’s oppressed castes for civic rights. At least in its immediate context, the Mahad satyagraha was about Dalits making a claim to the water in the Chaudar tank of Mahad…
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Supply Chain Laws: Karuppuswamy, Rakesh Supkar, Friedel Hutz-Adams, Michael Fütterer, Christian Schliemann, Justin Nolan
Switzerland and Germany are considering binding laws for corporations to meet human rights standards in their overseas supply chains. Cotton farms, spinning and weaving factories, and garment manufacturing factories are all part of the same supply chain for garments. Human rights violations have...
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The Struggle for Niyamgiri: Prafulla Samantara, R Shreedhar, Nitin Sethi, Madhuri Karak, Shomona Khanna, Sharad Lele
Even in a career in public life that has already spanned five decades, the date of April 18, 2013, holds special significance for Prafulla Samantara. On that day, three judges of the Supreme Court said that the Union government's permission for a mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, a...
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The Chipko Movement: Haripriya Rangan, Sharachchandra Lele, Sunandita Mehrotra, Sunderlal Bahuguna
In the late 1960s, the 70s and the 80s, photographs of tribal and forest-dwelling women of the Garhwal Himalayas, encircling and hugging trees to prevent their planned felling, went around the world, influencing conservation movements everywhere. Sudesha Devi was among the leaders of this…
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Justice after large-scale violence: Gagan Sethi, Akram Akhtar Choudhary, Mishika Singh
Mishika Singh is a Delhi-based lawyer, one of many who responded to calls for legal assistance following the riots of February 2020. 53 people, official figures say, lost their lives. In nearly all cases where violence was targeted at Muslims, the police remained mute spectators, even when it led...
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The Warli Revolt: Indra Munshi, Archana Prasad, MC Mawali, Prakash Bhoir
In October 2019, the most recent conflict over Mumbai's Aarey colony came into national prominence when the city's municipal corporation took advantage of a Bombay High Court order confirming that the area did not fall into the legal category of a forest, to fell trees and clear the area for the...
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Running a grassroots lawyer network: Nupur Sinha
We learn from Nupur Sinha, the Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice (“CSJ”), about the work that goes into using the justice system to fight for the rights of marginalised people, through a network of grassroots lawyers and paralegals. Nupur and the team at CSJ have nurtured this...
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A life in legal literacy: Abha Singhal Joshi
On the first episode of the Nagrik Podcast, we learn from Abha Singhal Joshi, whose career is a slice of the recent history of legal literacy programmes in India. Over two calls, she spoke to Nagrik Learning's Aju John about her start in life as a litigator in Delhi and her route to legal…
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At Nagrik Open Civic Learning, we promote Open Educational Resources for civic participation, so that more people can learn to assume active roles in their societies. In this podcast, we will learn from the people who have tried to bring about meaningful change.
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