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I'm no scholar, I mean, coming in front of Professor Kapoor, I pale out.
00:09
But I will certainly put a few thoughts, which are in my thought process, a very important
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aspect of thinking about women and India's thought about women.
00:22
And therefore, I'll just sort of randomly flow with some thoughts.
00:27
As I said, with a big rider that it's not an academically thought through flow of ideas,
00:36
but I'll place it for your consideration.
00:40
India's had uninterrupted, over the million year, active engagement of women in society,
00:51
as Manisha Kotekarji said, in various different roles.
00:56
I don't need to recall all of them.
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But it is important to understand this has been consistent since, let's say, if you were
01:04
looking at Sanskrit literature, whether it was Vedic Sanskrit period, or classical Sanskrit
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period, or subsequently, the modern Sanskrit era, or similar period references in the respective
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regional languages.
01:23
You distinctly find women having played roles, different roles, and no role was prohibited
01:32
for her comes out very clearly.
01:35
And this has been completely indigenous, no influence.
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If anything, it has widened itself in terms of looking at women with a lot more different
01:44
and newer perspective.
01:46
So if this has been consistent through the millennia, and all over that geographical
01:55
conceptual area of what is Bharat, it can even today be seen in different parts, fully
02:05
blooming out before us.
02:07
Some examples were taken, I'll just use some of those examples.
02:12
In the Northeast, even today, you have a custom of a boy who wishes to marry a girl, going
02:21
to that girl's family, and spending a whole year to understand how that household is,
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he gets married after that.
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And the family of the girl accepts him only after that one.
02:34
You might say today's India, it is an exception, but it is a practice which has been there
02:38
for a long time, like many things, like many habits, like many practice, unless you keep
02:44
the practice.
02:46
In Tamil, there is a beautiful verse, which plays on the importance of practice.
02:53
You want good language, good Tamil to be spoken, that practice will have to be in your tongue.
03:12
Only by repeatedly speaking and speaking will you speak your language well.
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Chitramam kaipazhakam.
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Chitram is art.
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It's a habit of your hand.
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You have to keep practicing and keep practicing, only then does it.
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Similarly, such practices and part of a cultural practice, over the million years, unless it
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is kept alive, it is not going to be there, perfection, in its full perfection, nor will
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it be as much widespread.
03:45
Today, because of the erosion, maybe in many places it's lost out, but it did exist, and
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it was not looked down upon.
03:56
Another practice which were women-centric, which has a social impact, economic impact,
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and even today in some parts of Telangana, you will find it.
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In villages, the crop is harvested.
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The crop is taken to the market by the men of the house.
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Women participate in a lot of activities, storing and everything else.
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But the important role of keeping the next bunch of seeds for the next cultivation was
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left to the women.
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Even today in some villages, you will find women holding that, and they are respected
04:34
in the village.
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There, there is no caste.
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Any woman, or any family, which wants seeds for the next crop, would come and take it
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from this lady's hands only.
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And she'll be in charge of that bandar where the seeds are kept for the next crop.
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Even today, it is not done.
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So, these are not practices which have been artificial.
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