On September 5, 2011, a new edition of Khabar Lahariya was launched, in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. Nirantar and members of the Khabar Lahariya team in Chitrakoot and Banda have been mentoring women from Sitamarhi and Sheohar districts of Bihar to undertake the production of new edition of Khabar Lahariya. The new edition is in Bajjika, the local language in the area. 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Gender and Education Reader is in two volumes, focussing on different aspects of gender and education, and attempting to pull together a range of writing - theoretical, historical, fictional, autobiographical, policy documents - on these. Both volumes have a theme, as well as a section with more conceptual pieces on gender and sexuality. The theme of the first reader is the Aims of Education for women; that of the second is the Construction of Knowledge from a feminist standpoint.

These readers draw on translated material used in Nirantar's course on Gender and Education, and contribute to the paucity of material on gender and education in Hindi that is available in the Indian context.

Click here to look inside the first reader

A thematic literacy package, including a literacy primer and continuing education booklet themed around SHGs, as well as a numeracy primer is available.

Textbook Regimes: A Feminist Critique of Nation and Identity is a study that explores the linkages between nationalism, identity and gender in school textbooks. The study attempts to understand the politics of school textbooks, moving beyond standard techniques of addressing gender. This feminist critique uses power as a key concept to analyse how structures and hierarchies are reflected and validated in the content and pedagogy of the language, social sciences and adolescent education/moral science textbooks. An indepth reading of textbooks maps the manner in which knowledge within the different disciplines gets constructed for the learner. It also studies the impact of centrist notions and regional politics on the content of school textbooks. By intersecting gender with other categories of caste, class, religion, and with issues of sexuality, the study attempts an understanding of how inequities are recast and communicated in textbooks.

The study of Tamil Nadu textbooks, West Bengal textbooks, as well as an overall analysis of findings are available to order. The publications on Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and national textbooks are forthcoming.

Click here to read excerpts.

Click here to download our latest report, mapping Nirantar's work over the last five years.

Nirantar has won the prestigious King Sejong Prize for Khabar Lahariya, its rural newspaper project run by Dalit and tribal women in UP. The prize also recognises Nirantar's 'well-structured method of training newly literate women as journalists and democratizing information production provides an easily replicated model of transformative education.'

This year’s prize is an affirmation of Nirantar’s work with Dalit, rural women on issues of literacy and information creation. The UNESCO International Literacy Prizes are awarded every year on 8th September in recognition of excellence and innovation in literacy throughout the world.

Read more at http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=46200&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 

or see press coverage at

http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/detail/79438.html

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/17769/after-un-award-rural-indian.html

http://hindi.webdunia.com/samayik/bbchindi/bbchindi/0908/07/1090807155_1.htm

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/08/06/stories/2009080657660700.htm

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/09/20099882935561705.html