Segue: Women and caste in tech in India with Raksha Kumar

<p>Bias and discrimination are everywhere. It's something we as a society are generally trying to improve. But when it comes to solutions, there is nuance in terms of cultural and social context, personal perceptions, and privilege that can complicate matters.</p><p>Join us as we speak with Raksha Kumar, an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker with a focus on land, forest, and human rights issues. We speak about Raksha's investigative work into the layered and complex issues of caste and sexism in India's tech industry, and elsewhere too.</p><p><strong>About Raksha Kumar</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Raksha Kumar</strong>&nbsp;is an award-winning journalist, with a focus on land and forest rights. Her work highlights human rights abuses by the State, thereby holding the powerful to account. Since 2011, she has reported from twelve countries across the world and a hundred districts in India for The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, among others. Additionally, Kumar studied media freedoms in India in great detail and wrote reports for the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, and PEN International.</p><p>Raksha graduated from the Journalism School, Columbia University, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law. She is also a documentary filmmaker and a Chevening Fellow and has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for Leadership Development.</p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong>&nbsp;(<a href="https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/raksha-kumar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">link</a>)</p><p>(00:02:11) Raksha's focus on human rights in journalism.</p><p>(00:02:39) People are interesting, and each person matters.</p><p>(00:05:03) The impetus for writing about sexism in India's tech industry.</p><p>(00:05:11) Writing about caste in India.</p><p>(00:05:47) India's caste system.</p><p>(00:06:33) A court case in the US raising outside awareness to caste discrimination.</p><p>(00:07:08) Equality Labs.</p><p>(00:07:35) The case was covere