Cooking Death.swf
Channel: LEAF Society
Date: 16/03/2012

Cooking Death?

Is death is being cooked at Home?

This digital story of four minutes tries to analyse how gender imbalance has been practices in millions of home across India - by making women alone cook and expose her to Indoor Air Pollution and Black carbon emissions.

Cooking and eating always  one sided job- being practiced in families where normally, women alone cook and serve to men. When the hard working women  needs to be compensated with high nutritive intakes, she always consumes last and least of cooked food. This is one of the biggest disparity of our families when hard worker are compensated with poor nutritive intake, because of our attitudes, values and cultural practices.   This story tells how, women alone bear the brunt of hazards of cooking for centuries together.

Burning bio fuel is one of the key source of black carbon emission and the poor rural women who exposes herself and her children to black carbon are in dangerous positions of acquiring many diseases including respiratory & skin diseases, cancer, etc 

We have made this attempt as a part of challenging the very old customs of Indian homes and try to throw some lights on us, our attitudes, thinking, practices and our values.

I have produced this story and if you want to read the full concept note on the linkage between, cooking, Indoor Air Pollution, gender disparity and death, please write to us -  leafsociety@gmail.com