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Behanboxby Nithya Pandian17h ago
On The Cardamom Trail: The Invisible Women Behind A Premium Spice Trade Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the...
Behanboxby Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur3d ago
Why ILO’s New Convention On Platform Work Falls Short On Gender Inclusion Platform workers from marginalised groups face layered challenges in the labour market but this intersectional lens is...
Behanboxby Siddhi Goel7d ago
It Is Time To Recognise, Record The Life, Labour And Art Of Marginalised Film Dancers Only a handful of celebrated cinematic dancers are known to us but there are dozens of trained and talented...
Behanboxby Bhaskar Basava10d ago
Bottom of the Cup: The Women Who Grow Araku Coffee Araku’s globally recognised Arabica coffee commands premium prices, but the Adivasi women who grow, harvest and process it see little of that...
Behanboxby Samra Iqbal15d ago
How SIR Is Enforcing a New Impermanence on Delhi’s Migrant and Working Populations Despite government assurances, the brunt of SIR exclusions are faced by those without a permanent address...
Behanboxby Sanhati Banerjee17d ago
What Counts As Proof Of Belonging? Women, Welfare And The New Citizenship Crisis In West Bengal Increasingly deprived of access to welfare schemes, women deleted from the voter list during the SIR...
Behanboxby Anjali Chauhan22d ago
‘Partner Violence In Non-Marital Relationships Is Hard To Name And Address’ In this instalment of BehanBox Talkies, scholar Sundari Anitha says entering a relationship is itself an act of...
Behanboxby Reetika Khera24d ago
The Many Double Standards Of India’s Maternity Benefits Policy An excerpt from development economist Reetika Khera’s book, 'Freebies or Rights: Understanding Social Policy in India' Maternity...
Behanboxby Lakshmi Kaurav28d ago
[Readmelater] ‘We Are In A Fight for Azaadi’: Notes From An ASHA Worker’s Diary Lakshmi Kaurav from Madhya Pradesh logs for a month her triple shift of care labour When does an ASHA worker’s day...
Behanboxby Team Behanbox7 Sept 2026
Gig, Domestic Workers Are Absorbing the Economic Costs Of Heat Stress: BehanBox Survey Illness, lost productivity, survival costs, and lack of government or platform protections mean workers end up...
Behanboxby Jyoti Yadav4 Sept 2026
From Dalit Child Bride To Landowner – How Fulo’s Life Changed In A Flood-Prone Bihar Village The quarter acre farm Fulo owns yields rich harvests of maize and rice.
Behanboxby Aditi*1 Sept 2026
‘We Saw The Biases In The SIR Process But Were Too Overwhelmed To Do Anything About It’ A BLO from West Bengal talks about the confusion around the ever-changing rules of the SIR process, the...
Behanboxby Saumya Kalia26 Aug 2026
The Biases And Blinkers Of Big Tech’s Language Models We spoke to researchers and practitioners across Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan to understand the promises and fallacies of linguistic diversity...
Behanboxby Samra Iqbal24 Aug 2026
‘Only The Name Remains Unchanged’: How the NFSA Amendment is Yet Another Betrayal of People’s Right to Food The proposed amendment to the National Food Security Act 2013 is curtailing the rights of...
Behanboxby Anjali D20 Aug 2026
‘The Data Center Has Taken Everything: Our Lands, Future, Happiness’ In this instalment of BehanBox Talkies, two Dalit women from Andhra Pradesh speak about their fight for their rights even as...
Behanboxby Shikha Jhingan18 Aug 2026
Voice as an Unruly Force An excerpt from a new book on female playback singers in Bombay cinema, and how Asha Bhosle’s malleable voice whispered and breathed life into these How did Bollywood use...
Behanboxby Meghana Choukkar17 Aug 2026
Why The SIR Is Like A Video Game, Where New Obstacles Come Up At Every Level SIR has become an existential test where clerical errors from two decades ago and technological failures may put both...
Behanboxby Nithya Pandian11 Aug 2026
How Caring For Mental Illness In The Family Consumes Women’s Lives Despite chronic stress, fatigue and loss of livelihood women have no choice but live up to the expectations of caring for family...
Behanboxby Jaideep Hardikar31 Jul 2026
Growing Rapidly, Farmer Producer Units Now Have A Capital Problem A women-led farmer producer company in Maharashtra’s drought-prone Dharashiv district reveals both the promise and the...
Behanboxby Saumya Kalia27 Jul 2026
‘Distributing Land Like Candy’: How Diluted Laws, Opaque Processes Power India’s AI Data Centre Boom Data centres have existed since the 1990s so what is it about the new hyperscalers that is...
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