Tehelka.com – From Tehelka Magazine
Queer Pride Week comes once a year but millions of Indian women fight all year round – as women, ‘single’ women and lesbians, finds Amrita Nandy-Joshi
Even if they are not fed healthy food, little girls in India are guaranteed a big diet of behavioural norms. A ‘good girl’ ought to be soft-spoken, polite, obedient. She ought to marry. She ought to be a mother. If she dares to stray a little out of step with these prescriptions, it is seen as a momentous act of defiance…