2021, which looks so much like 2020 (except when you read our Calendar closely)!

 And it's time to open the Campaign blog again! 

This will be the second year that we do a digital campaign, and it has been well over a year since most of Prajnya's core team members met. We have not met our Campaign Associate, Niroopini Muralidharan, in person, nor our Programme Associate, Maryam Nayaz. As I write this, we are still waiting for the third surge of the pandemic and climate change and poor urban planning have once more caused flooding in Chennai. But here we are, catching electricity and connectivity, as and when we can, to bring you a full 2021 Campaign Calendar. 

The 2021 Campaign page is also up (https://prajnya.in/16d21) and you can read more detailed descriptions of our programmes there. We will also be creating Facebook Events for the open programmes and those will be the most detailed of all. 

The 16 days of the campaign and the weeks that precede it are the most intense time of the year at Prajnya. We work really hard to bring together a good calendar and the issues we talk about are hardly frivolous. But doing this reinforces our sense of purpose so that we count down to this time and give our best efforts and energy to this work. 

This year's campaign places a spotlight on dowry. It's 60 years since dowry was prohibited by law and yet, giving and taking at weddings seems to be on the rise. We bring you a panel discussion that reviews the effectiveness of the law and our team members are off organising their own discussion sessions too on the subject. We are also organising panels on marital rape and 'honour' killing, and consultations with local partners on grassroots challenges to accessing justice and the rising rates of child marriage. 

Thank you for walking this road with us!