Economist Lekha Chakraborty on gender budgeting in justice, the economic relevance of #MeToo, and how the media can help
Economic marginalisation and lack of financial empowerment affects women negatively, and may increase their vulnerability to gender-based violence, says Lekha Chakraborty, a pioneering economist who has played a pivotal role in institutionalising gender budgeting in India.
Chakraborty is a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and a research associate with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. …
Avni Sethi, founder of Conflictorium, Ahmedabad
The 2002 riots in Gujarat was the first time things were happening so close to me. I could see places I visited go up in flames. The context of that event changed from being about one day, to an unravelling of a systemic kind of violence. I knew I had to come back to Ahmedabad and the context I grew up in. Conflictorium, a participatory museum in Ahmedabad that seeks to create a space for facilitating dialogue through art, was founded after that.
If you ask me how I consume news and what’s my relationship with that consumption, it’s a kind of acceptance of disbelief, a breaking down of faith. The consumption of news has become an energy-consuming, time-taking exercise. …
