An independent activist-writer and (re)searcher, Madhu Bhushan has worked with the CIEDS Collective and Vimochana for almost three decades. She has been part of the women’s movement for many years using a creative, critical and compassionate approach in her work on crisis intervention, community outreach and campaigns & advocacy. She is also on the governing boards of the Center for Vernacular Architecture and of the Alternative Law Forum. Having written for three documentaries, her first film as a writer-producer is  ‘Sikkidre Shikhari, Ildidre Bhikari’, about the Hakki Pikki’s – a nomadic tribe she has been associated with since the 80s.