A newsletter called Karti Dharti — written by women and about women — will be published and distributed on Friday at least in two protest sites here. The newsletter is the brainchild an IT analyst and freelance writer.
The first page of the first newsletter also has an article on Nodeep Kaur, a Dalit woman — who was supporting the agitation and was arrested on January 12 by Haryana Police.
Chandigarh-based Sangeet Toor was invited for a talk about a month ago on women’s participation in the ongoing protest against the farm laws. “A speaker there asked me if there was any newsletter or paper being published on this subject. That’s when we thought why not?”
However, what set things moving was “media clampdown”. Ms. Toor said recently, media is not even being allowed to freely report on the farmer’s protest. “Government crackdown on media freedom led us to think that we really really need to push it out,” she said.
On the content, the team is Ms. Toor, three…