Women Uninterrupted

Women Uninterrupted went behind the scenes of Mothers of Courage, the sole Indian submission shortlisted in the Sustainable Development Goals category at Cannes Lions 2026. The subject of the film is the Shiksha Chaupal, community-led dialogue circles where women and families gather to talk about why girls are not in school.

Host: Anna Thomas

Guest: Khushboo Awasthi, Co-founder & COO of ShikshaLokam and Co-founder of Mantra4Change

Title music: Maya Dwaraka

Women Uninterrupted in conversation with a provider of safe mobility solutions for women and children.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Vandana Suri, Founder, Taxshe and SingleSisterz

Title music: Maya Dwaraka

Women Uninterrupted speaks to Pooja Goyal on why making childcare everyone’s responsibility—not just women’s—is key to unlocking India’s workforce potential.

Host: Anna Thomas  

Guest: Pooja Sharma Goyal, Founding CEO, Udaiti Foundation

Title music: Maya Dwaraka

In this episode of Women Uninterrupted, we speak to psychotherapist Rohini Rajeev to understand the motivations and the impact of makeup marketing, specifically on the girl child.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Rohini Rajeev

Producer and editor: Jude Weston

Women Uninterrupted spoke to Dr. D. Indumathi, a senior physicist who was part of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), on how the glass ceiling for women is more a social construct, and not just workplace bias.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Dr. D. Indumathi

Title music: Maya Dwaraka

Wingwoman: Anuja Singh

What drives the highly skilled Indian woman abroad?  

Women Uninterrupted talks to a woman interrupted: interrupted in her academic career by gendered harassment; interrupted in her right to a safe existence by communal riots. “Research scholars who get their articles published in reputed journals without holding a flask: is that what we want?” 

Host: Anna Thomas   

Guest: Zeenat Khan, microbiologist, Dubai 

Women Uninterrupted in conversation with Nishtha Satyam, diplomat, economist, and “unapologetic feminist,” on the systems of control that continue to shape women's safety and women's freedom in disparate countries.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Nishtha Satyam

Women Uninterrupted met Indumathi at one of her Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCC) where she was supervising her workers who live with their families in sheds adjacent to the Centre. She also runs a Textile Recovery Factory and has often been a voice for waste-pickers on international platforms. 

Women Uninterrupted is a podcast by The Hindu in which we host conversations between women about women. This episode was originally recorded in Tamil. 

Host: Anna Thomas  

Guest: Indumathi 

Production: Anna Thomas with The Scribbling Pad 

Seema Gupta is a powerful advocate for women in business. She operates a drone service centre for farmers under a central sector scheme. In this episode, Seema tells us that getting women into the workforce requires a sensitive approach that must involve the whole household.

Women Uninterrupted is a podcast by The Hindu in which we host conversations between women about women. This episode was originally recorded in Hindi.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Seema Gupta

Seema’s voiceover: Nidhi Gupta

Title music: Maya Dwaraka

Production: Anna Thomas with The Scribbling Pad

Women Uninterrupted is a podcast by The Hindu. We host difficult and uninterrupted conversations between women, with an inter-generational focus.

In this episode, we feature the story of a woman with many stories – of the days in her life as a masseuse, her relationship with her teenage daughter and the story of a missing husband.

Host: Anna Thomas 

Guest: Manju K. Viswanath

Production: Anna Thomas with The Scribbling Pad