Women are turning the tide against the patriarchal oppression and agrarian distress that have often kept them from organizing actively in farmers’ resistance.
Ranjana Padhi
Ranjana Padhi, based in Bhubaneswar, has authored Khudkhusi Ke Saaye Mein Zindagi Ki Baatein: Punjab ki Aurton par Krishi Sankat ka Prabhav (MP Mahila Manch, 2014). She has also co-authored Resisting Dispossession: The Odisha Story (Aakar Books, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), whose Hindi version Gaon Chhodob Naahin: Odisha ke Das Jan Sangharsh ki Gaathaayen is expected soon.