Protima dasgupta biography sampler

Toxic femininity and the freedom of movement for women are the two last challenges that remain before society. This is the last part of this six-part essay. It lists some other ways women are hurting the cause of freedom and egalitarianism, even as they, themselves, practise tokenism and pay lip service to the women’s lib narrative and derive its benefits. Sample some more realities.

• It is women who feel obliged to change their family name post marriage. Even though the constitution has given them the option not to, only a handful bother to find out. Just like it is in the case of freedom of movement, and right to self-defence. #It’sShe very much.
• It is young women subordinates who undermine an older woman boss by competing with her unfairly, slandering her in front of male colleagues and engaging in groupism, instead of simply taking instructions, especially when she is right. It is because they want to be the only woman in the group. Seeing the senior worker so undermined and finding the other females more accessible, the men, too, start disrespecting her, hurting her efficacy and career. #It’sShe.
• It is women who first attempt to shame other women when they are doing something new or different, like trying a new hobby or wearing a differently-styled outfit or having a

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  In Conversation with Professor Uma Das Gupta, Tagore scholar, author of A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore&#;s Pioneering work in Rural Reconstruction published by Niyogi Books,

  Tagore () has been celebrated as one of the greatest poets of the world, a great philosopher, a writer, an artist, a polyglot but what did the maestro himself perceive as his greatest ‘life work’?

  He wrote: “My path, as you know, lies in the domain of quiet integral action and thought, my units must be few and small, and I can but face human problems in relation to some basic village or cultural area. So, in the midst of worldwide anguish, and with the problems of over three hundred millions staring us in the face, I stick to my work in Santiniketan and Sriniketan hoping that my efforts will touch the heart of our village neighbours and help them in reasserting themselves in a new social order. If we can give a start to a few villages, they would perhaps be an inspiration to some others—and my life work will have been done.” This was in a letter in to an agricultural scientist, Leonard Elmhirst (), who helped him set up Sriniketan, a craft and agricultural development project for the villages which fell under the purview of the Tagore family zamindari.

  To Tagore, his ‘life wor

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