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Check out this article from Deepika, the Malayalam paper. It is a most excellent description of the work of Miss Thresiamma Mathew and the women of Archana Women’s Centre in Kerala where hundreds of women have been trained in masonry, carpentry … Continue reading →

Please join me for on May 5 as I share my India adventures with you. Susan Moir, Director of Research at the UMass Boston Labor Research Center, has recently returned from 3 months in India. Join us for Indian food … Continue reading →

At 3 am tonight I leave Mumbai and India. I will be home at 3 pm Thursday. I am very glad to see my family and friends and dog, to sleep in cool weather and get back to work that … Continue reading →

I had a fun and interesting couple of days in Pune hosted by Shraddha Borawake, photographer and new relation by marriage to my old friend, Nancy Falk. Shraddha did a project on women in construction some years ago and we … Continue reading →

To my cousins, children, nieces, nephews and all other Moirs, You remember when Auntie Elsie died and I received five big boxes of her stuff and we held the Holy Yard Sale in my yard in Jamaica Plain and I … Continue reading →

I am traveling so much, learning so much and I am so tired. I have not had time/energy to organize pictures, words or thoughts. Tonight I am in the airport in Cochi, Kerala waiting for a late plane to Bangalore. … Continue reading →

Time Laying in my king-sized bed in a 5 star hotel in Jaipur, I watched a short film on the crisis in rural India. One scene, repeated several times, showed a woman in a saree walking through a green field … Continue reading →

I will be here for exactly 12 weeks—arriving on a Thursday and leaving on a Thursday. Today is exactly six weeks in and six to go. The vitality of the public and not-so-public dialogue on caste, class and race is … Continue reading →

My head is exploding with all that I have learned. I have not written in almost three weeks because I am overwhelmed by the data. Since my last blog post, I have interviewed seventeen individuals, attended meetings at eight different … Continue reading →

When I started this, I was afraid I would annoy all of you with too many posts. Now I am not posting enough for some! I have been very busy with field work and trying to keep up with my … Continue reading →