To achieve equality in the true sense, society needs women who speak for themselves and others. And it is a parents’ responsibility to send outspoken women leaders in society.

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It is just not right to stereotype women with dark skin as belonging to lower communities. Their skin colour is just a feature of their body and not a determinant of their abilities, beauty, class or caste.

Patriarchy oppresses both men and women. So the resistance against it should also be teamwork of both. Because men can be feminists too

Not their marital status, but women’s free will gets to decide what they wear, where they go and what they do. Stop making marriage women’s sole source of freedom.

Entertainment can be an agent of social change. Social messages delivered through movies reach the right audience scattered across class, caste and culture.

When are we going to perceive women as citizens with rights? When are we going to value their choices and decisions? How long women will be criticised for being too liberated? It is only unfortunate that parents themselves shame their daughters for being outspoken.

Isn’t the very expectation that women should speak gently based on the idea that women never have anything important to say or to be heard? Do only men’s opinions, consent and resistance matter?

For me, the idea of a ‘good Indian woman’ is mainly mythological. It is a concept that has been weaved in stories by patriarchy and cannot really survive in the reality. Because if it did, women will never be seen as individuals but as supporting characters that matter only till they fan the heroism of men.

Daughters should not be dependent on the hope of getting a good husband to pursue their education and dreams. Education is their basic right and neither parents nor in-laws have the right to alienate them.