In this episode of Central Hall, senior advocate Kapil Sibal brings together three extraordinary women who are luminaries in their own fields to discuss how women navigate a world inherently unfair to them.

Niraja Gopal Jayal is a political scientist by training, and taught at India's premier graduate university for the social sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has also had stints at the King's College in London and has been associated with the London School of Economics. Her book, 'Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History', was heralded as having broken new ground in scholarship. 


Neerja Chowdhury, a journalist with several decades of experience and who now works as a consulting editor with Indian Express has written one of last year's most talked about books, 'How Prime Ministers Decide.'

Malavika Rajkotia, who wrote 'Intimacy Undone: Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in India', is one of the best known family and divorce lawyers in India.

All three speak of background, privilege and the culture of social capital that makes it possible for women to rise and what women who do not have these suffer.

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