kathikā

We will lionize her, but will we ever listen to what she’s saying?

– Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen points out that when he took up issues of women’s welfare in India he was accused of voicing ‘foreign concerns’. He was told, ‘Indian women don’t think like that about equality’. But he argued that, ‘if they don’t think like that, they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.’

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