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Interview | 6 May, 2021
Gender-based Violence and Technology | Youth Ki Awaaz
Article | 3 March, 2021
How Covid-19 Helped Govt Control Your Data & You | Article14
Pandemic-era data-enabled surveillance—via digital tracking, disinformation, a variety of apps, phones and drones—undermines data privacy, autonomy and dignity of individuals and specifically disadvantages women, research shows.
Article | 14 January, 2021
The Cost of Safety. Surveillance Will Not Keep Women Safe | Smashboard
Sanctions for surveillance of women’s bodies are often rationalised as being for their own safety and well-being. But surveillance not only fails to keep women safe, it produces its own kind of violence.
Zine | 6 November, 2020
Lived Experiences of Surveillance at the Margins during COVID-19 in India
A zine documenting the lived experiences of surveillance at the margins, based on my research with the Internet Democracy Project.
Article | 19 November, 2020
भारत में कोविड-19 के दौरान सम्मिलित सर्विलांस: एक नारीवादी नज़रिया | Observer Research Foundation
कम्युनिटी ट्रांसमिशन पर काबू पाने के लिए लोगों के आवागमन पर गाइडलाइंस ज़रूरी हो सकती हैं. हालांकि, जब इसे ऐसे तरीकों से अंजाम दिया जाता है, जो लोगों के सामाजिक-आर्थिक संदर्भों और जरूरतों को ध्यान में रखे बिना डर पैदा करता है, तो यह बीमारी को नियंत्रित करना नहीं है, बल्कि लोगों को धमकी देकर उनके डेटा एकत्र कर उनके शरीर को नियंत्रित करना है.
Article | 8 October, 2020
Embodied surveillance during Covid-19 in India: A feminist perspective | Observer Research Foundation
Interview | 3 October, 2020
In conversation with Radhika Radhakrishnan: A feminist researcher's guide on surviving the internet | Indian Express
I spoke to Azmia Riaz about envisioning and creating a feminist Internet.
Interview | 11 May, 2020
COVID-19 Could Turn India Into a Surveillance State | Slate
I spoke to Payal Dhar about digital surveillance by the Indian state during COVID-19
Interview | 26 March, 2020
The Corona of Misogyny: What kind of man wishes rape on women who oppose death for rapists? | FirstPost
I spoke to Anna MM Vetticad about online violence in the aftermath of the hanging of the four men convicted in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case.
Article | 24 March, 2020
Why death penalty for rape doesn't actually help with women's safety | The News Minute
Article | 8 December, 2019
Kill Rape Culture, Not Rapists | LiveLaw
Knee-jerk reactions demanding harsher punishments for rape are patriarchal in principle and harmful in practice.
Interview | 25 August, 2019
AI is biased, you’ll see if you Google ‘hands’ | Deccan Herald
I spoke to Rajmohan Sudhakar about gendered biases in Artificial Intelligence.
Article | 22 February, 2017
Educating, Hiring, and Retaining Women In Technology: A Gendered Enquiry | GenderIT.org
Analysing the socio-cultural reasons for the skewed gender ratio within the domain of technology and recommending how we can educate, hire and retain women in the field.
Article | 6 December, 2016
Harnessing the Internet to Realise Labour Rights in Cambodia: Interview With Alexandra Demetrianova | GenderIT.org
I interviewed Alexandra Demetrianova about her research for GISWatch about labour rights violations in garment factories of Cambodia. In this interview, she discusses how the internet has played a key role in the struggles of garment factory workers (mostly female) and trade unionists to demand for an increase in their minimum wage.