Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
Author, blogger, editor. New Delhi/Bombay.
In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
To understand why I was only a little shocked — in an oh-my-god-you-had-sex-and-talked-about-it way, not a look-at-this-predator kinda way…To understand why I was only a little shocked — in an oh-my-god-you-had-sex-and-talked-about-it way, not a look-at-this-predator kinda way — when I read Nabokov’s Lolita at 16, you’d have to understand Indian culture. Even after laws banning child marriage were passed in India, there’s still something that resides just under the surface of Indian society where, as soon as you start menstruating, you’re technically a woman, and therefore a sexual object.Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan5 min read