In Progress

The last few years have seen the emergence of India as a rising geo-political player from the South, along with China and Brazil. It has also become an information technology hub, that its own National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has gained so much prominence among business and technology circles beyond Indian borders.

Yet India remains a country that is perennially coping with scorching poverty and its caste system. Many of its women continue to weather a flood of responsibilities, stormy marriages and relationships, and droughts on access to various resources, including those which would have been warranted by the full exercise of citizenship. They have yet to see themselves in the nationalist and “southern” articulations of their country nor in the economies out of modern communication systems.

For the women in Assam, their capacities and desires to communicate are points of struggle which are continually being re-discovered, nurtured, and lived.