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We have a militant idea of feminism in India: Kalki Koechlin

Kalki Koechlin loves being a feminist but is threatened by the thought that India has come to believe in only a very ‘militant idea’ of the concept. She questions why you have to be a “man-hater, or be lesbian or dress a certain way.” In this brutally honest chat with our Features Editor, Meghna Pant, Kalki asserts her thinking about women in India. “I believe feminist is anyone who believes women as humans.” Kalki insists the notion of equality gets lost in these preconceived definitions.

 

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