Mumbai: When a Mumbai University professor went to Maharashtra’s Sakri taluka to conduct a gender sensitisation workshop two years ago, she confronted a litany of woes from the health department’s ASHA workers—from honorarium to working conditions.

“I was not the right person, but they went on passionately. I said, I can hear you out, and I can send your message to the right person where possible, and the discussion halted there,” Daivata Patil, who teaches advertising, media research, and management, said.

By the end of that year, Patil had found a solution to give a voice to their work and woes. She and her team started shooting a film on ASHA workers, which will hit the big screen in December this year. Show Full Article

The Marathi film, titled Asha , stars Rinku Rajguru o

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