Ancient Padmavati To Aaj Ki Padma: What’s Changed For Us Indian Women?

• Meanwhile, a daughter had to sacrifice her soaring academic dreams and settle for matrimony. A good match was far better than a simple degree, you see?
• Also, a young woman while coming back from work, was groped on camera. She dressed so!
• A family decided to abort their yet-to-be born girl child, adding to the skewed gender-ratio statistics. A lineage-name-bearing son would have been better!
• Yet another spurned lover, poured acid love, on the object of his lust. How dare she say ‘No’?
• And a wife, got up at crazy hours, tended to her home, her kids, her snoring husband, grabbed a few morsels, managed to spruce up her self, ran across roads to put in a gruelling eight hours at work and also came back in time, to rustle up a hot meal for her ‘hard-at-work’ husband. All in a day, really!
• Another mother-in-law forgot that she was a mother too! Her vexed daughter-in-law chose the ‘easy’ way out. The parents had suggested that her marriage was for keeps! Good or Bad, everyone managed! Why complain?
• #MeToo became a cathartic sisterhood exercise, as stories of exploitation at the workplace, poured in.

It was business as usual, away from the studios, across millions of homes.