Pinjra Tod Kar

From the bylanes of the Old City of Hyderabad to international platforms, Jameela Nishat's Shaheen, an organisation that works with vulnerable women has broken multiple barriers. Through its work in rescue and rehabilitation of vulnerable women and helping those who have been victims of violence to get back on their feet, Shaheen has started important conversations towards structural and social change. Suno India, Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad and Bol Hyderabad are proud to present to you Pinjra Tod Kar, a podcast which will bring to you powerful and poignant stories told by the women whose lives were impacted by Shaheen.

Episodes

Pinjra toh todna hi hai

August 31, 2020 • 34 mins

This podcast series Pinjra Tod Kar is conceived and produced by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad with the support of Suno-India and Bol-Hyderabad as a podcast with powerful and poignant stories told by the women whose lives were impacted by Shaheen.

This episode, however, is a bit different. We bring to you, a panel with our editor Padma Priya, Shaheen founder Jameela Nishat, Usha Raman, who's the journalism professor in the Un...

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Marriage most foul: The story of Hyderabad’s contract marriages

August 31, 2020 • 32 mins

In this episode, Tasleem Begum tells us her story of being married as a 14-year-old to a 62-year-old man and how she broke free from the clutches of the lucrative “Sheikh marriage business”. Also featuring, Jameela Nishat, founder, Shaheen Women’s Welfare and Resource Association who through her poetry, conveys the deep distress caused to the young women because of these “marriages”.

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Domestic Violence: India’s hidden pandemic

August 31, 2020 • 47 mins

In this episode, we discuss one of the toughest challenges facing women and their right to dignity and life- violence against women and specifically domestic violence. This episode features Sultana who is a survivor of domestic violence, Vasudha Nagaraj, a women’s rights lawyer and feminist poetry by Jameela Nishat, founder of Shaheen Women’s Welfare and Resource Association.

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Child Sexual Abuse – A Silent Crime

June 26, 2020 • 39 mins

According to the latest data by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), over 32,000 cases of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) were reported in 2017 while almost 40,000 cases were reported in 2018 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

In this episode of our podcast Pinjra Tod Kar, we talk about how Child Sexual Abuse is prevalent in society and how we need to fight. Suno India team sat d...

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Education - A way out

May 31, 2020 • 26 mins

According to UNICEF, 27% of girls in India are married before their 18th birthday and 53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate. More than 50 per cent of girls fail to enrol in school; those that do are likely to drop out by the age of 12.

In this episode we talk about how educating a girl child is one of the most important things to break the cycle of abuse and empower them to become ind...

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Pillar of Strength - Jameela's story

March 6, 2020 • 38 mins

In the first episode of Pinjra Tod Kar, you will hear from Jameela Nishat, founder of Shaheen, who tells us about foray in women’s rights and where she sees the organisation and its work heading towards.

This Podcast is produced by Suno India with support from Goethe Zentrun Hyderabad and Bol Hyderabad.

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Pinjra Tod Kar - Trailer

January 26, 2020 • 7 mins

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