A group of 20 or so women — young, barefoot and in saris — sit in a circle on the floor in the new documentary Writing With Fire.
Comprising the staff of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female newspaper (whose title translates to “waves of news”), the women are told that the publication will expand its online operations soon, and they must adapt.
The digital divide among the journalists — rural women from the Dalit caste (India’s lowest, formerly called “the untouchables”) —quickly appears.
One notes that it’s necessary to get articles out fast to win the race for eyeballs on social media, while another struggles to send emails on her first-ever phone, since the shortcut for that feature is “E,” a letter in a language (English) she.
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