Guest Speaker : Mythili Sivaraman

Time : 3:00 p.m., Sunday, May 28
Venue : 6-120, MIT

About the talk

The talk would focus on women's empowerment and the role played by grasroots women's organizaionts.

About Mythili Sivaraman

Mythili Sivaraman is a well known women's movement activist and the working president of AIDWA - All India Democratic Women's Association in TN, one of the largest women's organization in India. She has been involved in village mobilization and social activism, particularly with factory workers, women and recently with dalits. She often writes in leading Indian journals like the Hindu and Frontline on women's issues and empowerment.

Some relevant recent articles

• Call to pass women's quota Bill.
• Women rise in unison to end 'two-tumbler' system.
• Globalisation anti-women: Karat
• 'Fascists unleashing culture of intolerance'
• Fight eve-teasing menace, women told
• An officer, yes. A gentleman, no!
• Travails of a dalit
• Coming together for a cause