Pradeepan Ravi

Sep 14, 2023 | behanbox.com | Christianez Ratna Kiruba |Pradeepan Ravi |Anuj Behal

Guwahati: One evening, my partner and I were comparing notes after work. “I had to explain the prognosis of a female patient to her next-door neighbour,” he said. Sensing a story I asked him: “Did she have no family?” “She does,” he replied. “But all her next of kin are women.”While this may surprise some, it is a routine practice in hospitals and clinics around India.

Sep 7, 2023 | behanbox.com | Ankita Apurva |Pradeepan Ravi |Anuj Behal

Ranchi: “My parlour customers often request me to finish their work quickly, saying they have yet to get their goats back home,” says Shiuli Mitra with a chuckle as she moves from one customer to another, threading their eyebrows. The beautician, dressed in a plain cotton sari and her face makeup free, is from the Moira community of Bengali sweet-makers. Mitra’s parlour, built in the early 2000s in Silli village of Ranchi district, is on a plot where her mother-in-law’s hut once stood.

Aug 29, 2023 | behanbox.com | Aatreyee Dhar |Pradeepan Ravi |Anuj Behal

As we said earlier, Munda starved herself to feed her three children. She would, at times, rope her eldest daughter into household chores. There were days when her grief and anxiety about navigating her life alone would paralyse her. “Her husband was a carpenter, earning Rs 300 daily. Both of them would share the family’s financial expenses.

Jun 1, 2023 | behanbox.com | Aishwarya Mohanty |Pradeepan Ravi |Anuj Behal

Bhubaneswar: In 2018, 35 transgender persons from Gunupur block in Odisha’s Rayagada district applied for a rural homestead land under a state scheme. They were entitled to this under the Vasundhara scheme, which guarantees the state’s landless and homeless people enough land in a village to build a home.