Notes on Compassion and Debt in the Field by Raju Chalwadi

For Season 2 of Supplement we bring you experiences from the field published in EPW Postscript, read by the authors.

On this episode we have Raju Chalwadi reading his piece 'Notes on Compassion and Debt in the Field' in which he reflects on how using the buddhist principle of maitri transformed the field and his relationship with his research participants. Raju Chalwadi is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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