A working class muslim woman, who migrated from Banaras to Delhi, juggles multiple jobs a day – from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen, shelling almonds and making tea strainers. Neha Dixit, the author of the Many lives of Syeda X, in conversation with labour and public policy researcher Namrata Raju about her landmark book, which involves almost a decade of journalistic work. Neha Dixit is an award-winning independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has covered politics, gender and social justice for seventeen years. Most of her work is investigative, narrative and long-form. For more on the book: https://www.juggernaut.in/products/why-the-apple-falls-fantastic-physics-for-children-copy
Podcast editor: Akshay Ramuhalli