As women in India continue to be deified, they are not treated as human beings with dignity, therefore, growing into one’s feminism, in India, is a painful process.Īfter the Delhi Gang Rape of 2012, Nivedita Menon, professor of Political Thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, would go on to publish Seeing Like A Feminist – a book I wish I had read when I began my journey into feminism. Discrimination against women in India is staggering: one-third of adult women remain illiterate, marital rape is not illegal and is believed to destroy the sanctity of marriages, and sex-selective abortion and female infanticide, though illegal, are still widely practised. India is a cacophony of identities and a diversity of socio-cultural systems, and invariably, in this cacophony, the Indian woman’s voice is lost.
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