At the book launch, Githa Hariharan, Revati Laul and Kalpana Karunakaran used one woman’s story as a springboard to dive into questions of love, longing, and resistance.
The real hurdle is that women everywhere have to make themselves 'palatable' – soft but assertive, ambitious but grounded, independent but homely, sexy but not a 'slut'.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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