In The Field
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In The Field
‘In The Field’ is a show that attempts to capture India’s development story, as it happens, through a feature-style podcast that combines interviews, commentary, and debate.
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Connections
At In the Field, we’re very interested in the debates around gender and work. We know that women face a number of constraints while running their busi...
Founders - Dreams
In our final episode of Founders, we talk about the economics of female entrepreneurship and what it takes to make a dream come to life. Is it having...
Founders - Interruptions
If there’s a word that’s often used to characterise women’s careers it is “interruption”. Starting a business interrupts “life” too. It’s a big disrup...
Founders - Plans
In the first episode of Founders we set the stage by exploring how women are positioned in the economy and in society. When we try to wrap our heads a...
Founders - Trailer
Have you ever thought about how women are positioned in the economy? Two stories dominate discussions about India’s female labourforce: the low rates...
Kaalavastha - Resilience
Across the world, there is a space where the battle against COVID -19 rages. This frontline of the pandemic is the local government, which faces an un...
Kaalavastha - Fabric, Folklore and Fish
Kerala’s economy relies heavily on things that are native and unique to it - its natural resources, its traditions and heritage. In this episode we lo...
Kaalavastha - Taking people along
As Kerala today thinks about how to reduce its reliance on remittances, and on how to revive the economy after the COVID-19 crisis, agriculture is one...
Kaalavastha - Two Flows
In Kerala resilience has been a part of the conversation for quite a while before it became the word we all seem to be talking about. So, given its he...
Kaalavastha - If a river doesn't flood, it isn't a river
The 2018 floods were called once in a century floods - because in people’s memory, there was only flood before it that had marked so many lives, the f...
Kaalavastha - It starts with a drought
Kerala has been marked by devastating floods in 2018 and 2019. But the state has been experiencing the effects of climate change for much longer. Scie...
Kaalavastha - trailer
Welcome to Kaalavastha. A word which conjures so many things in Malayalam: clouds, climate, the weather. In this 6 part series, we dive deep into God’...
Announcing a new miniseries on the environment and resilience
Announcing a new series on In the Field. The story of a state, the story of the weather, and the story of a people, chronicled over six episodes. Kaal...
"We want to hear from you."
ITF is back! In this mid-series episode we want to talk about how non-profits are dealing with the pandemic and we ask a few of our friends and collea...
“You get scale and pace at the price of building decision making structures and trust.”
The past decade has seen a proliferation of movements all over the world. Fighting for everything from racial equality, to end authoritarianism and co...
"The five-year old will say OK, let’s stop eating seafood."
In part two of our two parter on sustainability, climate change and consumption, we’re going find out about our relationship to the things we love - L...
"Fishing is a hunter's job"
In this special two-parter we’re talking about sustainability and consumption. And we’re starting with a story about fish, to understand how the twin...
"The hardship takes a toll, you know."
Worklife in India has many elements to it, and we see the whole gamut of experiences in India from workers working with little or no welfare to more p...
Bonus Episode: Education as a right in India
Welcome to this very special bonus episode of In the Field. Stay tuned for our next In the Field episode, coming very soon.
This episode...
"We were people who were defined by these achievements in social development."
Development work is full of models. And a famous one originated in Kerala - it was so famous it defined the state’s identity in so many ways; it was c...
“There is history in all our aspirations.”
The youth are a prized population, for they represent the much talked about demographic dividend and so countries are supposed to nurture and help the...
“You’re really not condemning the whole system, you're pinpointing where the problem is"
In development work, there are some spaces that need big ideas and radical new thinking, and there are others that require a different form of engagem...
"And so what we eat on our plates starts to determine the fate of the soil of our land."
Do we know where our food comes from? Does it come from down the road, or from a continent away? And do we really care? It’s all the same to us. Agri...
"But you already think what they can do at best is maybe make papad."
A recent preoccupation within the development sector is the falling female workforce participation in India. More pronounced in rural India than in ur...
"What you think is a position of knowledge, [is] just privilege and nothing else."
The Indian environmental movement has had a long and fascinating history. While young India’s charismatic leaders were instrumental in instituting law...
"How would you make something participatory, when you are working at that scale?"
In a thriving, vibrant, and diverse democracy like India, what does it mean to participate? We tend to see participation in a democracy as an act that...
New Year Wishes - "You've got to float all the boats."
In this mini-episode, we revisit some of the conversations we've had over the course of the year. Every episode gives us the chance to meet some of th...
“These are not considered to be 'good' jobs"
In this episode of In the Field, we take a closer look at the informal economy in India - the workers that hold up our cities. These are the millions...
“What difference did you make?"
The word “development” implies progress - a forward, positive progression of processes, standards of living, and human behaviours. The crux of most de...
"Why do you have to tell us all this? Can't I just Google?"
Do you remember the first time you were out in nature? Or the first time you saw a wild animal? Do you remember how it made you feel?
Amo...
“If you eat egg, your child will be bald."
In India, the high rate of stunting amongst children is alarming. With no easy policy solutions, a glut of expert views, and a collective anxiety abou...
Series 1 Trailer
India has a large, vibrant community of development professionals working to improve the lives of its citizens. They are bureaucrats, philanthropists,...