“Why don’t they have general elections every year, even every six months ?” That’s Mohana being cheeky as she listens to the day’s news items being read out to her by a member of a nongovernmental organization in Bangalore, in south India. The women sitting with her, all slum dwellers and mostly illiterate—whose surnames represent […]
Author: Sakuntala Narasimhan
Sakuntala Narasimhan is an award-winning Indian journalist-columnist-author with a Ph.D. in women's studies. She has also taught journalism at the university level.