Knox Hall 208
Join Columbia MESAAS for a roundtable and book talk with the founders of Khabar Lahariya, India’s first and only anti-caste rural feminist journalism collective and subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Writing with Fire. The event will feature a conversation on their new book, The Good Reporter, written collectively by KL’s reporters through a process of “embodied history-telling.” Centering Dalit feminist practices of journalism, memory and remembering, and organizational history, the book significantly complicates the popular narrative that has often been used to tell KL’s story and offers insight into the lived reality of working and thinking as an anti-caste feminist collective.
The roundtable will include responses from Prof. Isabel Alonso and Prof. Debashree Mukherjee (MESAAS), Kaagni Harekal, PhD, and Isha Karim. Beyond the discussion, attendees will also have the opportunity to engage with KL’s methodologies of feminist biography and collective history writing.
Please register HERE to receive a copy of the book’s prologue ahead of the event.
