Hear Me Too

In the final episode of Hear Me Too, we take a look at what happens to women who are trapped in conflict. Conflict itself is more than just people with weapons fighting each other, and women are the worst affected by all forms of conflict. This is not to say men do not suffer, but the vulnerability of women underscores their experience. We hear from Nishtha Satyam, the deputy representative of UN Women, Meera Khanna, writer and activist, and Aruna Chandrasekhar, independent researcher and journalist, and try to find a better understanding of conflict and what it does to women. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

The internet is supposed to be the ultimate leveller. Once you have access to the internet you have a space to speak, to think, to learn. Today, however, the infinite possibilities of the internet seem a distant dream as we are swarmed by trolls and hate speech and fake news. How do women do in this world? What kinds of violence do they face? What can they do about it? What does it cost? We speak to journalist Swati Chaturvedi, lawyer Satyajit Sarna, and activists Japleen Pasricha and Debarati Halder to find out. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

Speak to any woman in India and she will have a story about public spaces. Public spaces are just not safe for women in India, even conceptually. How do we engage with them? What do they stop us from doing? What does the law do to help us? What can we do to make them safer without putting more rules on women? In this episode, Ameya explores all of this with activists Anju Pandey and Shilpa Phadke, World Bank economist Girija Borker, and human rights lawyer Urmila Pullat.  You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

We tend to think of workplaces as offices, places with desks and computers, but in fact, workplaces can be anywhere. They can be farms and factories, they can be our own homes, they can be places of worship, buses, trains and schools. To understand more about sexual harassment in workplaces in India and what to do about it, we speak to lawyer Mihira Sood, who explains the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act and it's implementation, Amarpreet Kaur who tells us about a national survey on the subject, and Anita Cheria, an activist who works with garment workers in Bangalore. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

Home is where we are meant to be safest. Home is where women hide and are hidden when there is fear of violence in the world outside. But home is also where women face the worst violence the world over. In this episode, we speak to lawyer Amba Salelkar to understand the law in India around violence against women, and specifically domestic violence. Then we talk to women from Jagori, an NGO that works with survivors of violence across the country, and hear from some survivors of violence at home. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

Every year, UN Women runs a campaign called 16 days of activism. Its goal: to end all forms of violence against women in all spaces. It involves the coming together of actors from all parts of society and all over the world, because that's how big the problem is. To fully understand the extent to which women face violence and all the things it stops them from being able to do, and all the effects that has on society as a whole, Ameya speaks to activists, a data journalist and an economist. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.

Express Audio, in collaboration with UN Women, brings you Hear Me Too, a podcast that explores the extent of violence against women in India, urban and rural, and the second and third level effects it has on our society and economy. Ameya Nagarajan speaks to activists, survivors, researchers and people from all walks of life to find out more about the multiple ways and spaces in which women are controlled and constrained by violence, physical, emotional and financial, and what we are doing and can do to combat it. You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook and Twitter @expresspodcasts, or send us an email at podcasts@indianexpress.com. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts so other people can find us. You can also find us on www.indianexpress.com/audio.