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A tribute to one of the earliest and most accomplished icons of Indian feminism – Vina Mazumdar.
Vina Mazumdar who passed away last week at the age of 86, was one of the frontrunners of the women’s movement in India. Born into a Bengali family, Vina Mazumdar was a well-educated academic who has served in an important role in the Committee on the Status of women in India (CSWI). She was instrumental in bringing out a well-researched report called Towards Equality, which highlighted the plight of Indian women.
Vina Mazumdar was a well-known champion of women’s rights in the 1980s and 1990s and she became the founding director of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) as well as the founding member of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies (IAWS).
Her views on women’s empowerment in India have laid the foundation for the progress of women in our country. She has also published her memoirs titled Memoirs Of A Rolling Stone.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For her commitment to women’s issues
– For her well-informed and well-researched opinions on social issues
– For not letting conventions define her and for being a fighter till the end
*Photo source: Culture Unplugged.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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