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Homemade banners of British Indian women’s suffrage campaigners / Also pictured: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, prominent suffragette + accredited physician in the United Kingdom

Lotus Pond: Rahul Mishra Festive Couture 2020

Designer: Ali Xeeshan

The women see themselves differently too. In Tikri, Sudesh Kandela, a 55-year-old farmer from Haryana, watches a play being staged by a local theater group, enraptured by the spectacle. “I didn’t know what I was capable of beyond the expectations of me as a woman, a wife and mother,” says Kandela, who had never before been to a protest or taken her veil off outside her home. “But I am here now,” she says, clenching her fists, “and I cannot be oppressed. I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be bought.”

The festival of lights ~ Deepawali/Diwali

Wlw light desi academia.