BREAKING THE NETS: An oral history of India’s fisherwomen | 21st March, 2025 | 6 PM

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BREAKING THE NETS: An oral history of India’s fisherwomen

21st March, 2025 | 6 PM

At the heart of the fishing industry is the invisible labour of women. Over 12.3 million women in India work in fishing— catching, farming, processing, and selling fish, mending nets, and maintaining fishing gear. But their contribution is largely unacknowledged. Fisherwomen have fought to get recognition for their labour and secure their rights. “Breaking the Nets” brings stories from across India that chronicle the discriminations fisherwomen have faced, the battles they have waged, and the solutions they have crafted. This is an oral history of resistance, but also of resilience and hope.

This 21st March, join us as independent journalists Shamsheer Yousaf, Monica Jha, and Sriram Vittalamurthy bring you two films and a photo essay from this series. It’s a purely journalistic, non-commercial work.

About the team:

This project is created by three independent journalists Shamsheer Yousaf, Monica Jha, and Sriram Vittalamurthy. They did everything from reporting, writing, shooting and editing photos and videos, and producing multimedia stories, debugging the code and troubleshooting.

https://pulitzercenter.org/people/shamsheer-yousaf

Shamsheer Yousaf is an independent journalist based in Bangalore. He focuses on longform multimedia and investigative stories about the environment, science, and technology. His recent investigations include illegal shark fin trade from India to East Asia, and the crimes of the sand mining mafia in the Indian state of Bihar. Shamsheer led the “Breaking the Nets” project.

https://pulitzercenter.org/people/monica-jha

Monica is an independent journalist based in Goa. She reports on marginalisation, organised crime, and ecology. She specialises in investigative reporting and longform storytelling.

https://pulitzercenter.org/people/sriram-vittalamurthy

Sriram Vittalamurthy is an independent photographer and journalist, with over 17 years of experience. Since 2010, he has focused on immersive multimedia storytelling. He is based in Bangalore.

All the three of them have undergraduate degrees in engineering and postgraduate diplomas in journalism.