NIRANTAR - a centre for gender and education

ABOUT NIRANTAR

VISION
Enabling Access to Information
Having access to information and being able to critically analyse it is integral to learning. Information is power. However, women, the poor, rural and marginalised communities – Dalits and ethnic, religious and sexual minorities – are largely denied this access. And when information is available, the content is not relevant and is usually gender-biased.
We believe that there is a need to produce reading and teaching-learning material that simplifies and demystifies information and presents it with a gender perspective. The production of information and knowledge should also be democratised and decentralised.

Promoting Empowering Literacy
Literacy is a right that women and socio-economically disadvantaged communities have been denied. They have the right to read and write not only to get information, but also for entertainment and engagement with a world beyond their own.
We believe that literacy and education should enable marginalised women to take control of their lives by developing skills of critical reflection and ensuring that the education process connects with their lived realities. And once they have entered the world of letters they should have access to an environment that sustains their skills.

Engendering Education
Education is a feminist issue. Concerns central to the feminist movement should be included in any agenda for women’s education.

We believe that structured teaching-learning spaces – both formal and non-formal – are vital arenas through which gender equality can be promoted. Within these spaces there is a need to explore a feminist educational pedagogy that meets women’s needs, builds skills and enhances leadership capacities. This includes an engagement with issues such as identity, violence, the right to life and bodily integrity.

Nirantar's work has evolved over the years. Currently our work is organised around the following areas:

Creating Educational Material
Grassroots Intervention
Research, Advocacy & Training
Resource Centre
Activism

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Trustees: Dipta Bhog, Gagan Sethi, Madhavi Kuckreja, Madhu Mehra, Malini Ghose, Renuka Mishra, Sarojini N.B.

Founder Members: Dipta Bhog, Farah Naqvi, Jaya Sharma, Malini Ghose, Renuka Mishra.

Nirantar Delhi Team: Ajay, Anil, Dipta, Disha, Huma, Jaya, Malini, Nidhi, Payal, Prasanna, Purnima, Purwa, Ritu, Sadia, Shalini, Snehlata, Sosamma, Subhalakshmi, Vineeta.

Sahajani Team (Lalitpur): Asha, Babita Sr, Babita Jr., Chunni, Gyasi, Jashoda, Meena, Mamta, Nanhi, Parvati, Pushpa, Rajkumari, Ram Kuar, Rama, Sangeeta, Shabana, Sheela, Shobha, Vineeta.

Khabar Lahariya Team:
Karwi : Meera, Mithilesh, Pramila, Tabassum, Shanti
Banda : Kavita, Kiran, Meera, Nazni, Shakuntala

Arati (1964-2004)
We tragically lost our colleage, friend and fellow-traveller Arati Shrivastava in a car accident in May 2004.