As a @PARInetwork fellow I have an amazing opportunity to be part of a nationwide reporting project on young girls & women in rural India, their reproductive choices & agency. The first of many despatches. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/end-of-bother---neha-gets-a-nasbandi/
PARI's nationwide series on reproductive rights for women & adolescent girls opened with this stunningly detailed piece from @kavithamurali on Koovalapuram's curious guesthouse. @PARInetwork 2/n #threadstories https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/koovalapurams-curious-guesthouse/
From Bastar, Priti Davis's story of a well-equipped PHC, inaccessible for Adivasi women like Kamala. They are given 5 pills & sent away when they come looking to abort a pregnancy. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/they-are-just-given-a-pill-and-sent-away/ 3/n #thread
Upping this #thread of reportage on reproductive rights for @PARInetwork conversations about equity, health justice even more imp now. @amrutabyatnal on the one man who agreed to a vasectomy in a village in Bihar's Araria district. 4/n https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/last-year-only-one-man-agreed-to-a-vasectomy/
A woman is nothing more than cattle: from Harsana Kalan self and @sanskrititalwar report on choices curtailed-from education, mobility, clothes, time and obviously reproductive choices. 5/n Follow this thread of nationwide reportage from @PARInetwork https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/for-that-grandson-we-had-four-children/