Episode 27
What does it mean to be an Indian woman and Muslim living in Delhi, India, and in Europe? Listen to Tarana share her experiences of being othered as a Muslim woman in Delhi, and as an Indian women in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Recommended sources:
On the caste system in India
Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, The Annihilation of Caste, 2004. [a speech by Indian academic turned politician Dr. BR Amnedkar in 1936 - he spoke in front of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore, present-day Pakistan, during the drafting of the Constitution of India]
On women, feminism and intersectionality in India
Button Poetry, Mohamed Hassan: The Muslim Women Who Raised Us, 2018. [a poem by poet and journalist Mohamed Hassan on his love and respect for all Kiwi Muslim women in his life]
Deepa Narayan, Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women, 2018. [a book based on 600 interviews with women and men in India where the author explores the notion of what it means to be a “good” woman or “good” man]
Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, 2017. [a book by a leading feminist scholar in India on the personal stories and trauma of the 1947 Partition, and how it particularly affected those on the margins of history such as, amongst others, children, women and those in the lower castes]
Nivedita Menon, Seeing Like a Feminist, 2012. [a book by a leading feminist scholar in India about the global and intersectional movements of feminism]
