Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Feminism in India - How Did You Develop Frameworks to Think About the World?
In the early days, even though some of us who had the privilege of being educated and so on, had read western feminism, i think by and large, we were all full of doubt about how those ideas of radical feminism, socialist feminism, et cetera, applied to us. So while many of us embraced the label of feminism, we were a bit reluctant to embrace the other labels because we didn't quite know where we fit into them. The other thing is that we didn't begin with the need for theories. We began really by both noticing what was going on around us and reacting to it. And if you look at the map of feminist activity in india at that time
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