We're well into the 21st century, but Indian society seems stuck in ages past -- especially when it comes to the state of our women. Kavita Krishnan joins Amit Varma in episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her evolution as a feminist, and what she has learned from her activism. Also check out: 1. Fearless Freedom -- Kavita Krishnan. 2. Kavita Krishnan's speech in the anti-rape protests of 2012. 3. Kavita Krishnan on the Tarun Tejpal verdict. 4. Kavita Krishnan's Facebook posts on stalking and marital rape. 5. Gendered Discipline in Globalising India -- Kavita Krishnan. 6. Kavita Krishnan's Twitter thread on the Mahmood Farooqui case. 7. Films, Feminism, Paromita -- Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 8. Women at Work -- Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare). 9. Metrics of Empowerment -- Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan). 10. The #MeToo Movement -- Episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Supriya Nair & Nikita Saxena). 11. An Economist Looks at #MeToo -- Episode 92 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 12. Misogyny is the Oldest Indian Tradition -- Amit Varma. 13. Men Must Step Up Now -- Amit Varma. 14. Over 1600 Teachers Died of COVID-19 After Poll Duty for Panchayat Elections -- Manoj Singh. 15. Enid Blyton on Amazon. 16. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott. 17. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee. 18. The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories -- Kate Chopin. 19. Max Beerbohm and James Thurber on Amazon. 20. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky. 21. House of the Dead -- Fyodor Dostoevsky. 22. Leaves From the Jungle -- Verrier Elwin. 23. Private Truths, Public Lies -- Timur Kuran. 24. Ram Ke Naam -- Documentary by Anand Patwardhan. 25. The City & the City -- China Miéville. 26. Remembering Chandu, Friend and Comrade -- Kavita Krishnan. 27. Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India -- Ania Loomba. 28. Song of Myself -- Walt Whitman. 29. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- Mary Wollstonecraft. 30. Amit Varma's episode of The Book Club on Wollstonecraft's book. 31. Who Stole Feminism? -- Chistina Hoff Sommers. 32. The Blank Slate -- Steven Pinker. 33. Feminism for the 99% -- Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser. 34. Resisting State Injustice -- Episode 120 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jason Brennan). 35. Marxvaad Aur Ram Rajya -- Karpatri Maharaj. 36. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India -- Akshaya Mukul. 37. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism -- Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 38. A People's Constitution -- Rohit De. 39. Does India take its national symbols too seriously? -- Jan 2008 episode of We the People. 40. The Ideas of Our Constitution -- Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla). 41. Early Indians -- Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph). 42. The History of Desire in India -- Episode 161 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhavi Menon). 43. Young India -- Episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Snigdha Poonam). 44. The First Assault on Our Constitution -- Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 45. Love jihad laws are a backlash to India’s own progress -- Shruti Rajagopalan. 46. The Jackson Katz quote on passive sentence constructions. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

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Äänikirja: 6. kesäkuuta 2021