POWER TO HER

There have been many dialogues about women in STEM but nothing like our podcast with the founders of the content platform that showcases women in science called 'The Life of Science' (LoS). This episode is special as we have Dr. Aparna Shah who is an Assistant Professor at the School of Neuroscience at Virginia Tech. She drives an intelligible conversation with the LoS founders Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayraj about intersectionality, the caste obstacle and even how benevolent sexism could be a deterrent for women in India. Get right into the conversation and share your views. We would love to hear from you.

Artist Hanifa Abdul Hameed's work is blurring the lines between art and activism. In this week’s episode, we're talking to Hanifa about her journey with artistic activism, her views on artists expressing dissent in India and her experience working on the “Vote for aunty” campaign for Kamala Harris. 

There is an urgent need to work with Indian women at the grassroots level to combat knowledge barriers about the benefits of safe sanitation solutions while dealing with cast and gender hurdles. In this podcast we talk to the CEO of empowHER, Anamara Baig, to understand their efforts since 1993 to engineer sustainable solutions giving women access to water, sanitation and hygiene. In the last six years, they’ve built 2,200 toilets designed to cater to the needs of rural women while breaking down generations of conditioning around sanitation security. Join us as Anamara takes us through their journey to making India open defecation free.

As India prepares to install the world’s largest government operated facial recognition system, we are left with growing privacy concerns. While this technology has a number of benefits, the drawbacks cannot be denied. Riddled with inaccuracies, gender and racial biases – can we rely on this as a tool for identification? And where is the line between identification and surveillance? Associate council, Anushka Jain enlightens us on the dangers of this technology if not regulated properly, the illegal uses of facial recognition and so much more.

This is not just another Tattoo interview. The talented artist Kruti Andrade takes us backstage into the workings of the growing Indian Tattoo industry. From working around pliable government regulations to recovering business in the times of Covid, Kruti tells us all!

The second hand economy is a multi billion dollar industry. From fashion to food, every industry has contributed and partaken in this global phenomenon.  In a bid to live sustainably consumers are taking to thrift shops and up-cycled products in turn creating demand for used goods. With so much happening we decided to get to know the workings of the second hand economy in India  with those who propagate and live it everyday. Our debut episode features the young and enterprising co-founders of Thrifty Ideas, who run a community dedicated to sustainable living.