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Interview | 6 May, 2021

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Gender-based Violence and Technology | Youth Ki Awaaz

I spoke to Youth ki Awaaz about how the digital divide played out in the lives of women who were facing abuse in their houses during COVID-19 where their bodies and their experiences were being controlled by controlling their access to a mobile phone.
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Article | 3 March, 2021

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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.

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Article | 14 January, 2021

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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.

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Zine | 6 November, 2020

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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.

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Article | 19 November, 2020

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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.

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Article | 8 October, 2020

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Embodied surveillance during Covid-19 in India: A feminist perspective | Observer Research Foundation

Guidelines on public mobility may be needed to control community transmission. However, when this is carried out in a manner that evokes fear without taking into account the socio-economic contexts and needs of people, then it is not the disease being controlled, but rather the bodies of people through threats of collecting their data.
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Interview | 3 October, 2020

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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.

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Interview | 11 May, 2020

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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

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Interview | 26 March, 2020

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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.

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Article | 24 March, 2020

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Why death penalty for rape doesn't actually help with women's safety | The News Minute

Thousands of rapes are committed each year, but do not get the same public attention nor the punishment of death penalty — we should look within and ask why.
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Article | 8 December, 2019

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Kill Rape Culture, Not Rapists | LiveLaw

Knee-jerk reactions demanding harsher punishments for rape are patriarchal in principle and harmful in practice.

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Interview | 25 August, 2019

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AI is biased, you’ll see if you Google ‘hands’ | Deccan Herald

I spoke to Rajmohan Sudhakar about gendered biases in Artificial Intelligence.

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Article | 22 February, 2017

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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.

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Article | 6 December, 2016

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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.

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