10: Kalpana Viswanath, Co-Founder, Safetipin

In this episode, Ashutosh Garg engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Kalpana Viswanath, Co-Founder, Safetipin, an organization that assures safety to women. Kalpana, a sociologist and a women safety activist, is a consultant with several bodies of the UN. Kalpana discusses the primary issues related to women’s safety. “In India, the female labour participation is falling”- she comments. The talks about a hidden danger: the normalization of sexual harassment. She attempts to interconnect theological ideologies and the social norms existing today. She talks about polytheism and goddesses.