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  • Shodhini: the story of self-help and health in India

    This is the story of Shodhini, as experienced by me. ‘Shodhini’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘shodh’ or research, and so it connotes research done by women. In the late eighties, we chose Shodhini as a name for our experiment in self-help for women’s health. Several women’s groups in India, including Jagori, joined this experiment from the very start.

  • The personal and political

    Photographs from the mid-eighties are props for Kamla Bhasin’s reflections that speak to “work-life balance”, a tired narrative about how the two polarities should stay in their respective place. Kamla disrupts the notion by celebrating the organic transgressions of one into the other in feminist lives where work is fun and life is work.

  • The inner battle

    Thoughtful and ticklish, warm and chilling, of the village and from the city, this feature series written and curated by Runu Chakraborty brings alive the feminist spectrum that comprises debates, victories, lessons…fun! Read on.

  • Glimpses of my journey

    Uni-dimensional, serious and anti-family. If that’s how feminism and feminist work is popularly pictured, Sarojini’s piece can put that myth to rest. From traditional healing to secularism, making art to collective child care, Sarojini flags the spectrum of her rich and fulfilling journey.

A digital archive hosted by the New Delhi-based feminist organisation Jagori, Living Feminisms offers free and public access to three decades of feminist materials from the organisation’s ­early and recent past as well as the autonomous Indian women’s movement which birthed it.
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