Kuntalika Kumbhakar
Kuntalika has more than 23 years of experience with grass-roots development in PRADAN. She currently holds the position of Team Coordinator at the Development Engagement Support Unit (DESU) in Delhi. She has been extensively involved in working with women’s groups, and with capability enhancement of communities for promoting livelihoods. Her focus areas are centred around collectives of women, gender, agriculture and research, WASH, adult functional literacy and natural resource management. She has done her Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Visva Bharati University, and also has had a 4-year stint at Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD), where she established the discipline of ‘Development Practice’.
September 13, 2021
Building awareness of the rights women have to a life of dignity and one free of violence, and helping them speak up against the violation, not just their physical bodies but also of their dignity found its first success when the women en masse voiced their opposition to the ‘justice’ meted out for them by the traditional village justice mechanism. A beginning has been made…