Gayatri Jayaraman is a Mumbai-based single mom, senior journalist and editor. The author-journalist has been a single mom for last 16 years to a now 17-year-old. She’s here to tell you it never ends. SheThePeople.TV spoke to her about her journey. I would have fallen apart and lived on junk food and alcohol if it wasn’t for […]
Author and journalist Gayatri Jayaraman kicked off the SheThePeople.TV Bookclub at Barking Deer on Wednesday (July 5), with a candid discussion on her new book ‘Who Me Poor?’. Jayaraman’s essay on India’s urban poor — i.e the millennials who will buy iPhones, but will go hungry, went viral on Buzzfeed last year with over a […]
Who Me, Poor?: How India’s Youth are Living in Urban Poverty to Make it Big is a book that will use the case studies of young Indians, typically in their first or second jobs, migrants to major Indian metros, living in these conditions. The reasons for the poverty they experience are varied and influenced by the […]
SheThePeople.TV recently hosted its Bombaywaali conference at the Cuckoo Club. A panel discussion, moderated by SheThePeople.TV’s founder Shaili Chopra, looked at the idea of the urban poor and whether Bombay is really a city where dreams can come true. Gayatri Jayaraman, author of the much talked about essay on Bombay’s urban poor, talked about how […]
By Meghna Pant A full house, a fierce and fearless conversation. The June edition of Feminist Rani focussed on the ‘Changing Dialogue on Feminism in India’ with two stellar panelists, journalist Gayatri Jayaraman and stylist-activist Sapna Bhavnani. Gayatri is a writer who coined the term ‘urban poor’ in a recent Buzzfeed article. She is also […]
Our perceived sense of empowerment and our vocabulary of success may be warped says Gayatri Jayaraman at the June edition of Feminist Rani, a SheThePeople concept and effort to bring contemporary views on feminism and increase dialogue on the subject. Register for Feminist Rani Gayatri breaks the myth that women who are rural, empowered and […]
Women in India’s epics have an enhanced sense of being feminist
Is India’s film industry scared of the word Feminism? Do we give too much attention to what and how our stars think? Are they really feminists if the industry is yet debating gender pay gap? Or where women surge and grow basis the choice of the Khans? Recently Lisa Haydon who played a bold role in […]
