CBPS@25 I Sarojini G Thakur I Understanding gender, policy and public space using ‘Public Lenses’

Sarojini Ganju Thakur, Retired civil servant and Chairperson, Indian Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, as the lead speaker for the session on Gender and Public Spaces, delves into the issue of gender and public space through exploration of the concept of ‘Public lenses’. She explores various interconnected themes: violence and public spaces, the continuum between private and public spaces, the subject of transgenders and their exclusion from the public spaces and the importance of the application of an intersectional lens to look at something as complex as gender and public spaces.