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Last week, I read a random news report in a Malayalam daily about a 19-year-old woman who committed suicide because her husband bullied and shamed her for being dark-complexioned. At first glance, the news did not strike me as anything great, but as I kept reading, the story flashed images of what the woman might
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It was in Class XI that I learned my fully clad body could be deemed as provocative and vulgar by those around me. A teacher asked us girls to wear ‘dupatta’ or shawl moving forth because the boys in my grade are somehow distracted by our bodies. I, an innocent 16-year-old, was suddenly made conscious
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Growing up, I have seen many women around me who had long forgotten who they were other than for their identities as mothers and wives. They no longer knew what their desires were or what made them happy. All my childhood, I have genuinely wondered why women around me behaved as if they were inferior
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