Japleen Pasricha is the founder & editor-in-chief of Feminism in India (FII), an award-winning digital feminist media platform. She is also a TEDx speaker and a UN World Summit Young Innovator. Japleen has researched the impact that language and images have on communities and is developing a toolkit on the use of ethical, accessible, and compassionate language when discussing sexual and reproductive health. She started FII as a Facebook page in 2013 that curated feminist content from the Internet. The platform is now a full-fledged bilingual feminist media organisation that creates and publishes unique content every day.
She was featured by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in a book on ‘Women in Tech’ for her work at FII and felicitated by Maneka Gandhi and the Ministry of Women & Child Development (GOI) as Web Wonder Woman. She has also been recognised by the Swedish Foreign Minister for her work on the gender gap on Wikipedia.
Japleen currently oversees strategic vision and growth at Feminism in India.
In this Podcast Sri and Astha have covered Japleen’s experiences in setting up Feminism in India and asked her to share some of her own experiences as a student in Delhi University and Jawahar Lal University. They have discussed the most problematic notions blocking the growth of women’s rights in India and the possible ways to overcome them. The discussion also covers incidents of rampant online violence against women in India and the possible mechanisms to institute a more safe online sphere.