"We are trained to look at the ongoing farmers' agitation with a certain gaze that tends to ignore the role of women participating actively and passively. The same holds true for Dalit labourers who do not own tractors and trolleys, and make a huge effort to be at protest sites. This is where the newsletter 'Karti Dharti' comes in," says social activist Sangeet Toor.

Launched today (February 12), this four page A3 sized newsletter in Punjabi, and later Shahmukhi (Persian) too, founded and edited by Toor, a Master's degree holder in Cyber Security from George Washington University in the US comprises an all women's team. While it has been designed by Navjeet Kaur, funded and distributed by Sargam Toor, another social activist, the rest of the team is in the background. "Considering the crackdown by the government, some other women members have decided to contribute for different roles anonymously. Besides two protest sites, the newsletter will also be distributed at several morchas in Punjab," Toor tells IANS.