In a 2017 blog, UP CM Yogi Adityanath wrote: “…our scriptures have always spoken about giving women protection…energy can go to waste and cause damage if left free and uncontrolled. Women power also does not require freedom, but protection.” These remarks show how patriarchy cossets as well as suffocates women. Traditionalists believe that because women are the property and responsibility of men, they cannot possess any agency.
Today young, educated, outspoken women like climate activist Disha Ravi, Pinjra Tod feminists Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, and student activist Gulfisha Fatima are being imprisoned under harsh laws like sedition or the draconian anti-terror law, UAPA. These women are taking up from where their predecessors — such as 1940s women freedom fighters or Read More
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