Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Women in the University
It was a time when we were, as young women in the university, coming to a realization of issues do feminism. Many of us had read a lot of feminis literature coming from the west. We fought to get special busses for women - and then found those were fully occupied by men who would block three seats like mustrandas. So there was all this political stuff going on, and we were participating in discussions and everything. And i still remember that she made me write a paper, and she made me re write it almost ten times,. because the first time i handed it to her, she threw it back at me and said, it's rubbish. Go back and re
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