Srimanjori Guha is a PhD student at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. She is interested in gender economics and currently working in the area of social capital and women.
The ASHAs of Kerala receive a meagre honorarium though they play an indispensable role in the state’s healthcare. They are seen as 'volunteers' and the centre refuses to classify them as…
Isolated from the public world, a large section of Indian women remain closely entangled in the private world of family and kinship. An engagement with external networks would encourage their…