Why are rights necessary? – Reflections on a Forest Rights Act (FRA) training workshop for women farmers in Maharashtra

By Divya Gupta What are the images triggered in your mind when you think of the word “farmer”?  To be honest, the word “farmer” has always evoked images of frail men in cotton dhotis to my mind, never women. I had always instinctively concluded that all farmers are men. Though I am aware that women…

THE ‘APING’ MONKEYS

By Asmita Sengupta With a doctoral degree in primate ecology under my belt, I consider myself quite the expert on all things primate-y, if you will. Many moons back, I had learnt from a rather engagingly written textbook that there are no primates in Australia, USA-Canada and Europe, unless you counted the Bigfoot and humans…