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Jan 23, 2023

Ep 2: Achuki aur Marwari Family

With her incessant quips and repartees, Achuki lives up to the meaning of her name in this playful narration. She is a young girl frustrated with her family and the larger Marwari Bania society. Unsure whether...

11 mins

Jan 18, 2023

Ep 1: Tum Kitna Padhi Ho

People find a way to be nosy about others’ business everywhere. But there is one question that particularly disrupts Khushi’s peace of mind every single time. Like a pinch of salt on an old wound, the question...

8 mins

Jan 16, 2023

Ep.00 Trailer of “फ se Field, श se Shiksha”

“फ se Field, श se Shiksha” is a series of 10 audio stories coming from the lived experiences and imaginations of education in rural India. Each episode offers a different take on education and its connections t...

2 mins

Oct 20, 2022

Bolti Kahaniyan: Ep 5 Dayi l बोलती कहानियां : भाग 5 दाई

In this series, we bring you gender stories from Nirantar’s archives as well as from the Hindi fictional world at large. These stories have been used in facilitation by various gender groups, and are also great...

12 mins

Oct 14, 2022

Ekal in the City: Ep 4 Marathwada ka Ekal Mahila Sangathan | भाग ४ : मराठवाड़ा का एकल महिला संगठन

We have been meeting single women in small-town and rural India in our Ekal podcast series. In Episode 4, we meet a collective of single women in Marathwada, Maharashtra. What happens when the singular turns in...

28 mins

Sep 07, 2022

Tridevi – An Audio story l त्रिदेवी - ऑडियो कहानी

Remember when we thought we would always be 16? When we thought we’ll take over the world? Meena, Annie and Nayantara–‘the three girls from St. Agnes'–feel that they rule the world. They are dancers, they ligh...

26 mins

Jul 07, 2022

Bolti Kahaniyan: Ep 4 Tum Kiski Ho Binni? | बोलती कहानियां: भाग 4 तुम किसकी हो बिन्नी?

In this episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Swati Kashyap narrates a transcreation of Maitri Pushpa's story ‘Tum Kiski Ho Binni?’. When Binni's mother becomes pregnant after having given birth to two girls, everyone be...

9 mins

May 30, 2022

Ekal in the City: Ep 3 Akele Aur Chalna Chahiye | भाग ३: अकेले और चलना चाहिए

In this episode, Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own travels to the tehsil of Ajmer, Kekri in Rajasthan, and meets Annu, a 31-year-old woman who gives it her own meaning. What does this room look like today? A...

23 mins

Mar 22, 2022

Ekal in the City: Ep 2 Ekal Parivaar | भाग २ : एकल परिवार

What does it mean to be a single woman, when it’s not in a metropolis? What are the experiences of being single, without the romanticisation of the urban? What is the nature of singlehood that may not yet be de...

15 mins

Feb 28, 2022

Patnawaali Ep 3 : कहानी घर घर की

पटना में रहनेवाली स्वाती को कहानियां सुनना-सुनाना पसंद है. वे रोज़मर्रा की ठेठ कहानियों को अपने बिहारी तड़के के साथ हमारे सामने ला रही हैं. स्वाती इन कहानियों के ज़रिए कुछ बेड़ियों को टटोलती हैं और उन्हें चुनौती दे...

10 mins