If madam had ever witnessed Durga Pujo in Calcutta before, she would have known that we don't celebrate the festival like Diwali with fireworks. Problem of growing up on an Ekta Kapur set. No class, all crass.
This is the extent of the collective nuking of our modern history. Jean Drèze being asked who he is. No matter how these next few weeks shake out, there is just so much damage to repair.
Suddenly, the government has drones, facial scanning, high-tech surveillance and an extremely heavy police presence to suppress protesters But where is all this when it comes to women's safety??
15 year old boys abusing is “boyz with be boyz ji” but a 15 year old girl abusing is a moral crisis requiring doxxing, witch-hunts by the national media, an FIR and lecturing by the PM himself
Manuvad
Adult women don’t need your moral policing. They aren’t your daughters. Men abused you too, yet your boring asf lecture was reserved for women. Whenever women step outside your patriarchal, nationalist idea of how they should behave, you label it a “cultural crisis.”
98,592 government schools in India still lack functional girl's toilet. This is one of the many factors that leads to absenteeism and drop out among girls at the secondary level.