Imagine a world where you don’t have a voice to make your opinions heard, you are a labor, albeit an unpaid one, you are considered to be stupid or let’s use a less harsh term, “not smart enough”, you take care of an entire family yet are denied basic dignities of life i.e. a toilet. Sounds […]
Social Work
Everybody has a Mumbai story
“Hamare mehman, Mumbai ke naojawan aa rahe hai” (Our guests, the youngsters from Mumbai are arriving) a man shrilly announced using a loudspeaker. Yes, we had arrived. The four of us, students of social work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur, had come to Navalgaon, Khurkheda in Gadchoroli district of Maharashtra. Considered to be […]
8 questions you should NEVER ask a Social Worker
Hey guys, I was surprised to know this week on how little I have shared about my professional life on Munni of all Trades, save for a few mentions here and there about the crazy amount of travelling that I have to do. Today, I thought I should rant a little little and tell you […]
Untouchability in the Heart of India
*Names are changed to protect identities One month, one entire month, I was told I could spend in Madhya Pradesh. Yes, ‘Hindustan ka Dil dekho’ Madhya Pradesh. Yes, the multiple tourism awards winning state of India. Sadly, also one of the states in India where untouchability is not uncommon. My teammates and I arrived at […]
When I inaugurated a toilet at Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
“But where am I going to shit?” was the first question that popped into my head when I saw my name on the list next to the district of Gadchiroli. Yup, I was a student of rural development who had never seen the village a fact that never seemed amuse my classmates. I had left […]
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