https://www.hasrat.net/home daily 1.0 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/79809689-f31c-4d30-b762-462f424c80a3/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+14%2C+2025%2C+06_05_26+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934284522-7DR36BWDVDMWUYZNZW6V/1.jpg Home What Do Women Really Want? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934280946-IHVOP3V5PT8M1GFL2T3Z/2.jpg Home Namaste: The Only Way to Avoid COVID19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934280314-YRV07YM1ILBZ0TPXB9CH/3.jpg Home Kindness Contagion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934280612-6B08G1VRQL466PG27VWM/4.jpg Home The Infestation Called Misogyny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934283841-9CJQAL69WB3HIJQVYFWO/5.jpg Home Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934281379-KOTP1Z7ACX5GIKA4KHYM/6.jpg Home Ritu Kumar: Brand Investment Opportunity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934284799-DU5RYW1NU19SB2SMKTR9/7.jpg Home Humanitarianism & Resilience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934284820-X0QEF4S37ARKIWXIC8HN/8.jpg Home Imagining 2120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593934285250-PI0CTI7I3SFLFJGFMSMB/9.jpg Home How Woke Is Your Brand? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1594645655276-JA95I3IK6D8NFMIHYRQV/suffrage.png Home No Need For Feminism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1594645657527-NYVKT814UFG8WK022JBU/AP+Photo_Hussein+Malla.jpg Home By The People, For The People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1595596952435-J0JRMLDPUIDVZ0NAF0R7/Lockdown+pic+4.png Home Lockdown Lessons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1595842233392-L3XXEB9D9CDY16JXWRV1/IMG_7358.jpg Home Stories That Inspire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1596616557225-C0ZU8T8WXUE17BZRRKCR/SpectateSpeak+Thumbnail.jpg Home Social Evils: Spectate or Speak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1597581359290-9ETB77JK2UUMQK640L9C/25-modi-twitter.jpg Home Political Transformation of Indian Media - Modi on Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1599393305720-93AOLG6HNE6LEJOE2FGN/Hasrat+post+covers.jpg Home We'll Keep Asking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600860034968-69FTFKI61Y3CM2NAA4CE/Friends.-+Hasrat-2.png Home Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1601205548852-JBV2H1J0SCQLB2XESL08/Ruth++%283%29.png Home Adivasi: Exploited & Underplayed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/3b414452-28d0-471d-b709-52b5f1c5f249/Hasrat+post+covers-2.jpg Home From Korea With Love: Crash Landing on You & the K-drama Wave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/11e4dc16-95f7-49ad-b04e-42f54ec8a222/Hasrat+post+covers-3.jpg Home The Joy of Not Knowing https://www.hasrat.net/about daily 0.75 2021-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591784677089-22XTCO97HCYKOKCBFMMP/Hasrat+logo-3.png About - As we worked on this project, we realized our joint passion for public advocacy and awareness and utilizing our communication skill-set to inspire social behavioral change. That’s how Hasrat was born. We’ve started this portal for many reasons but the biggest among them all is our hasrat – our quest to fulfill our desire to change social behaviour. As young communication professionals, we work beyond industry demarcations to help influence social behavioural change. Hasrat is a work of art, a compilation of ideas from various parts of India and beyond by writers like us who want to change things for the better. Our aim is to promote the work of writers who want to bring about positive change by expressing their opinion or presenting research on various aspects pertaining to society, organizations, cultures, and professional development from a perspective that may be: strategic, design-oriented, research-driven, ethics-based, historically inclined, development-focused, among others. We’ve started Hasrat not just to inspire people like us to think and present on a large scale, but also to give ourselves a platform where we can compile all the work we are so dearly proud of. We are the women of today. Plainly so – we are imperfect with a हसरत to make the world perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591784409287-PALWZS7VB6KLY4651C7X/bd006eb7-574c-442f-9eb4-bf2d00cfebc6.jpg About - About Us Hi there! We are Maanya & Sanjana, the founders of Hasrat and strategic communication graduates from Columbia University. A little bit about ourselves: We first met in September 2018, as first-year graduate students at Columbia University. We didn’t become friends right away, but there were many instances that made us realize that we would be friends eventually and for life. Like those late nights in the library with our mouths stuffed with hot chocolate and pizza, that one Bollywood movie which had us both on the edge of our seats laughing uncontrollably at something only the two of us found funny from an audience of fifty, and the fact that we didn’t see eye to eye on everything, but were open to talking about it. During our time at Columbia and thereafter, we talked openly, shared secrets and ate… a lot. In April 2020, we participated in the United Nations’ Global Call to Creatives to help spread awareness about COVID-19. We created content surrounding the messages of ‘Being Kind’ and ‘Physical Distancing’. https://www.hasrat.net/submit daily 0.75 2020-10-09 https://www.hasrat.net/works daily 0.75 2025-07-14 https://www.hasrat.net/works/not-every-sad-woman-is-a-feminist-icon monthly 0.5 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/afdb61d3-d168-43e9-80e1-2077cc1507ef/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+14%2C+2025%2C+06_05_26+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/8bcf2dad-effe-4e1e-823d-4e72aa659d1f/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+14%2C+2025%2C+06_48_29+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/368fdb50-6071-47fe-ae01-1fdf8412ea9e/ChatGPT+Image+Jul+14%2C+2025%2C+06_17_12+AM.png https://www.hasrat.net/works/that-gender-this-society monthly 0.5 2021-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1609969037931-PO29LD5D8TL4QA6Y5KVT/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B%25289%2529.jpg Works - That Gender & This Society - Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A remarkable woman. In the Fall of 1956, when the dean of Harvard Law reportedly invited all the female law students to dinner at his family home and asked them, including Ginsburg, “How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?" (1) , Ginsburg said something she didn’t mean. “My husband is a second-year law student, and it’s important for a woman to understand her husband’s work.” But the reason she had actually enrolled in law school was that she and her husband had decided from the time they’d met was that they’d do everything together. Even pursue an education in the same field. And while her husband was not someone who saw her as a threat and instead pushed her to pursue work, Ginsburg had started to imagine a world different from the one she was living in. What she had other than passion, skill, and an extraordinary sense of strategy, was imagination. All she wanted was for society to see men and women as equal. This project, this goal, the one that seemed ridiculous circa 1960 was the one she never deviated from in her long-standing career. And here we are. Talking about this woman, this legend, and I know we will continue talking about her for years to come. I mean, This is Us even had an RBG toy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1612044348976-FL8C2R5RMENZ9P9G720L/Picture+1.png Works - That Gender & This Society - Lt. Col. Iman Elman. Trailblazer, really. Elman was only 17 when she decided to join the Somali National Army in 2011. Almost a decade later, she is now the only female department head and one of the highest-ranking women in the Somali military battling one of the deadliest terror outfits in the African continent - Al Shabab. So as someone who was born in Somalia and raised in Canada in a family of peace activists, how is it that she decided to pursue a tradition so different from her family? When she first joined the army, the male officers rejected her, demotivated her, and resisted her almost instantaneously. She was told to sew a skirt for herself from the uniform she was given. She was told over and over again that she would only be assigned roles related to cooking and cleaning. But that’s where she found her motivation. In the rejection. But is that the case always with those oppressed? Do they only find motivation when they are rejected, demotivated, and resisted? “She was told to sew a skirt for herself from the uniform she was given” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1612044661971-LO285N6GSGK24Z5ETJQB/IMG_2101.jpg Works - That Gender & This Society - At Leera, an artisan and designer run the show collaboratively. Leera encourages women of Sujangarh to create artisanal pieces through the practice of Bandhani and Shibori. Over time, they have encouraged numerous women to join the organization and build handicrafts to keep them motivated, financially support their families and find a purpose within themselves. Leera aims to sell the designer products by narrating the stories of these talented women artisans while understanding the significance of quality. Disha, Kairavi and Mrs. Choudhary attempt to inculcate design sensibilities in the women artisans that further equips them with an added skill. Additionally, as a for-profit, Leera tends to bring in a modernized vibe to the simple village and its artisans, it is here that Mrs. Choudhary’s on-ground connections help Leera gather support and relevance. Mrs. Choudhary stands as a role model for many women in Rajasthan and she is supporting hundreds of them in the region and across the country with her initiatives. With over two decades of experience working in the social sector, she acts as a bridge between the women Leera aims to help and the world out there. Having broken many social stigmas herself, she truly puts her passion to a pursuit in helping reduce the gender bias in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1612044965421-KA7F9EGJ88SOUAL1Q24I/arti+pic.png Works - That Gender & This Society - Meet Arti. An influence we all need. Trafficked at only 15 years from West Bengal to Sujangarh, Arti was married off to her husband in exchange of money. At 17 years, she’s a wife, a mother, and an artisan working with a foundation and Leera. Arti was brought to Sujangarh in an unstable and uncomfortable environment. Apart from marrying a stranger, bearing children very young, it was only after her marriage did she find out that her mother in law often indulged in prostitution to put food on the table. Working part-time with Leera, Arti has found a purpose beyond household work and childbearing. She earns enough money to feed her daughter and her family and has developed a sense of work ethic and discipline that she tries to inculcate in her family. Her motivation? Someone she didn’t really know convinced her that working with these two foundations was probably a good idea for her and her family. She put her faith in them and commenced her journey as someone more than simply a young, inexperienced and innocent trafficked child. Today, she has her own bank account and savings that will help her in a time of crisis. “At 17 years, she’s a wife, a mother, and an artisan” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1612045582749-1OPYDQJACMHZS8LZT1FJ/Untitled%2Bdesign%2B%252810%2529.jpg Works - That Gender & This Society - Nathi Devi. An inspiration, really. A native of Sujangarh, Nathi Devi never got the opportunity to go to school. Her parents died when she was very young, so she naturally had to look after her siblings from a very young age. Married off at the age of 14 to a truck driver and a part-time carpenter, she was left to fend for herself when an accident left her husband partially paralyzed. Apart from taking care of her deceased son’s children, she has been working with a foundation in her village and Leera for the past 8 years, cooking food for events in the village, singing at occasions, farming and rearing animals, and even doing household chores for other people in the village. Essentially, Nathi Devi has been taking all sorts of odd jobs to ensure that she puts food on the table, her grandchildren attend school every day, and take care of her family. So what really was Nathi Devi’s motivation? Her situation. She knew if she did not give it her all, her family would collapse and that is not a future she envisioned for herself or them. “Nathi Devi has been taking all sorts of odd jobs to ensure that she puts food on the table” https://www.hasrat.net/works/5-concerns-women-child-development monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629121657-G86ML4C4GUCAIHEFGCW3/1.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development 1. Familial Exclusion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629180493-L7DE4PCB1R2LH3F3DKXL/2.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development 2. Harassment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629230481-K1JU7C2RYAUAMW1VEGRG/3.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development 3. Weak Protection Systems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629274235-JQ0LOS8V46HGDYADH4E0/4.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development 4. Sex Education https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629313403-HZBV3NBGLS437DS0QG5A/5.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development 5. Mental Health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606629354980-BEDXAIK4DBGNNE9H7EPJ/6.png Works - 5 Concerns - Women & Child Development https://www.hasrat.net/works/water-vs-the-internet-in-the-heart-of-india monthly 0.5 2020-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606462461110-T1PHGWHEEG1RLZVPYTTW/Picture1.png Works - Water v/s the Internet in the Heart of India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606462570660-CPYNGVSZV34FC8OJFRJH/Picture2.png Works - Water v/s the Internet in the Heart of India Kodu Millet, a crop that was traditionally grown across India until a few years ago, was known for growing well in dry zones July 2019/Saurav Verma/Village Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1606462665078-BIWCY7Q288D65XHWPF3O/Picture3.png Works - Water v/s the Internet in the Heart of India Farmer harvesting wheat crop in India | The state of Punjab, also known as the Wheat Bowl of India was surpassed by Madhya Pradesh as the top procurer of wheat in 2020. June 2019/PTI https://www.hasrat.net/works/well-keep-asking monthly 0.5 2020-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1599392288497-YCTLZQWUA3PBUH7BOQ3Y/Picture1.png Works - We'll Keep Asking The Star/2013 Almost 15 million people were uprooted in the 1947 Partition of British India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1599392504179-VDU5TAJOH3UJRHAKDOIM/Picture2.png Works - We'll Keep Asking A clipping from the episode, lines that were presented as Sonam Kalra performed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1599392625632-TGY5FVP09GE55KGP2NX8/Picture3.png Works - We'll Keep Asking A still from the Sunday Series episode https://www.hasrat.net/works/ritu-kumar monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591175794828-GI548Z973KQFFVYKX55V/Copy+of+Ritu+Kumar+Hasrat.Work+%285%29.png Works - A Big Fat Investment About 20 million women in India currently fall under the category of ‘obese’ and the average height of an Indian woman is 5 feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591175917941-B38JQN6WYFF90FSBKGU9/Screen+Shot+2020-06-03+at+2.48.21+PM.png Works - A Big Fat Investment Ritu Kumar’s assessed target audience is women from urban/rich backgrounds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591176017823-487RTJMZ7WDPTIX0O8WK/Copy+of+Ritu+Kumar+Hasrat.Work+%282%29.png Works - A Big Fat Investment Competition plays a big role in expansion. https://www.hasrat.net/works/adivasi monthly 0.5 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1601205267383-IRC348D3OKHBW1CMC33F/Picture1.png Works - Adivasi: Exploited & Underplayed Picture Courtesy: Youtube (https://rb.gy/eoeoz3) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1601205360559-CJTICI59SFJLU9C5K4CN/Picture2.png Works - Adivasi: Exploited & Underplayed The school where Manish Kumar did his early education Picture courtesy: Manish Kumar https://www.hasrat.net/works/spoiled-for-choice monthly 0.5 2020-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858477199-6WE4RC5HSMJ6KFQAOHPZ/IMG_2239.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858604523-6Q9CHILHUUGABC9IRTG8/IMG_2244.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858704451-PVSLL6ED1Z2I44M035KD/IMG_2247.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858632838-OT70YUSCCF4J5DCSQCAV/IMG_2245.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858754599-ALG1JIKI7FETG3TX3TXZ/IMG_2249.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858778565-35GVBGSHJCYCGN7AI31P/IMG_2250.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858681385-CS5GB6X14CG28GDAQ18B/IMG_2246.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600858736773-E1CHC13ZPL3KZ8ZEFI9L/IMG_2248.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600859108221-9RWFAFJJOVCRNHTDITAU/IMG_2243.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600859277725-1WCD0SFU7NBFCU3ZCVAL/IMG_2241.PNG Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600859320494-DHT7YA0JG58VE93IBGWD/IMG_2242.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600859408942-2Y2CW33V0QSGU2FZG4MU/IMG_2255.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice Our first conversation over text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1600859516992-713WMHCEI7ZULXJBAC1R/IMG_2252.jpg Works - Spoiled For Choice https://www.hasrat.net/works/the-infestation-called-misogyny monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591176217049-BJELXWYB0TOUT9LZ90O8/Domestic+Abuse+-+Hasrat.png Works - The Infestation Called Misogyny Here we have a 3-stage process that depicts the growth of a domestic abuser from boyhood to manhood represented symbolically with the help of a tree. The roots define the ingress of a gender biased-thought process engrained in boys from a young age, leading to a narrow view towards the female sex once these boys approach their teenage years or the trunk of the tree. Finally, in the capacity of full-grown men, as their branches expand far and wide, wired with a misogynistic thought process since childhood, they resort to domestic abuse to maintain the feeling of superiority. https://www.hasrat.net/works/kindness-contagion monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591176654498-GTUW9DRVHTHLL9O4BIO6/2.png Works - Kindness Contagion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591176622741-VQX8RHQO578ZKX97PO9F/1.png Works - Kindness Contagion https://www.hasrat.net/works/imagining-2120 monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593428149938-3M5LQO2P645J7VQYOXMC/Maanya+_+2020+Regressive+Hasrat+%281%29.png Works - Imagining 2120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593407730857-S5WWFOIXXL0JZF0QVCSN/1.png Works - Imagining 2120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593428178618-XM8NR3HPAKC9GVDABF6V/Maanya+_+2020+Regressive+Hasrat.png Works - Imagining 2120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593407982738-8EK4N9QVLUFMEWI1TMGU/2.png Works - Imagining 2120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593408086297-2839M3SM64OO0Y4KA1WR/3.png Works - Imagining 2120 https://www.hasrat.net/works/from-korea-with-love monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1622475065588-UGZKEFYHGOEDNZRBUI5A/IMG_6212.jpeg Works - From Korea With Love: Crash Landing on You and the K-drama Wave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1622475134864-PIJ9YE91I46EACQ31WF2/IMG_6214.jpeg Works - From Korea With Love: Crash Landing on You and the K-drama Wave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1622475247095-VG1IVAM63XYA3P542GFW/IMG_6218.jpeg Works - From Korea With Love: Crash Landing on You and the K-drama Wave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1622475197763-XW9NEEOUATQQQFP5776O/IMG_6217.jpeg Works - From Korea With Love: Crash Landing on You and the K-drama Wave https://www.hasrat.net/works/namaste-avoid-covid monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591176414328-M7JI04IB2IN002Y7ZRTQ/from+A%C3%B1jali+Mudr%C4%81+to+health+sutra.png Works - From Añjali Mudrā to Health Sutra https://www.hasrat.net/works/why-i-grew-distant-from-friends monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://www.hasrat.net/works/equality-in-todays-world monthly 0.5 2021-06-26 https://www.hasrat.net/works/roshan-mani monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://www.hasrat.net/works/humanitarianism-resilience monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591177709272-T1WR5ICSI5BNE64R5IO3/Screen+Shot+2020-06-03+at+3.17.41+PM.png Works - Humanitarianism & Resilience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591177795838-OVOHAHT75DGQ77QIW4NG/Screen+Shot+2020-06-03+at+3.17.50+PM.png Works - Humanitarianism & Resilience https://www.hasrat.net/works/i-want-to-be-a-witch monthly 0.5 2021-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1620512699022-RU16I3W79H066Y2R05XU/witch+2.png Works - I want to be a Witch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1620513135458-F7XHQGY6GWO0O00SSTTU/witch+3.png Works - I want to be a Witch Getty Images https://www.hasrat.net/works/what-women-want monthly 0.5 2020-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1591178157121-XY7Z2BFMQ2NHLMU7HRD9/2.png Works - What Do Women Really Want? 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He makes brilliantly progressive remarks throughout the movie. One such comment is his take on men’s demands where he mentions that after marriage men only want women to serve them - food during the day and sex at night. This scene 16 years after HSSH, shows how Bollywood started to put light on the unequal gender roles in our society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211447600-S9ILQ9YPUV56G3BRZ59P/Dreams+and+Dedication+1.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain The new bride is now pregnant and her prospective sister-in-laws played by Karishma Kapoor, a college student and Sonali Bendre, a practicing doctor, leave their work and stay at home with the to-be-mother. This is shown in a good light so as to display the shared affection in the family. However, 2 decades into the 21st century, as a viewer I notice the different benchmarks set for men and women in the movie. While the men, rather boys of the family are praised for their ambition and dedication towards their career, women are praised on the basis of the level of sacrifices they make for the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211604095-DK5KQX1LB5HSLE8VEIV4/Dreams+%26+Dedication+2.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain As she is set to re-enter the sports world where she was once a master, Kangana’s character, the mother of a 7-year-old in Panga, leaves her house and moves to another city. Her husband and son take care of themselves, while they are shown to struggle with basic household chores, the movie depicts, in all confidence, that women do not need to leave their dreams behind in order to lead a happy family life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211728435-G2KRETHD7M178APTOX8L/Pregnancy+1.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain Shakti Kapoor, who is the friend of the big family, is unmarried and often teased about it. In response to one such tease, Shakti says that he has made a deal with Tabu (who is recently married to Shakti’s childhood friend), that he will get married only when she gets pregnant. An extremely fun-filled pressure to produce a child is hence placed on the couple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211791682-8QRIGFR3KIXXKRM2CVSG/Pregnancy+2.png Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain As Priyanka Chopra’s character is not happy in her marriage in Dil Dhadakne Do, she takes contraception pills to refrain from conceiving. Although a woman does not need to have any reason to use contraception, the fact that Priyanka was emancipated enough to not flow with the societal pressures of having a child, that too one that was often fondly presumed to be male offspring, is a great depiction of the progress we made 16 years hence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592210495102-K83LO19UIRH66PD7KLS8/Duties+1.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain ‘Vakil Sahib’ or the family lawyer and the matriarch's brother happily pronounces at the dining table how a happy family reflects in situations where the ladies and daughters of the house lovingly serve food to everyone. While there is constant discussion about the men’s professional ambition in the movie, the underlying goal for women is always tied only to home and marriage. Why? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211242633-R817RI479BYHWQB0T2Q2/Honeymoon+1.png Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain All the youngsters in the family surround the new bride, Tabu and ask her where she wants to honeymoon. Before she could reply, her husband, Mohnish Bahl says that everyone should come along for the honeymoon otherwise the trip is cancelled. Everyone revolts and tries to make him understand what a honeymoon means, but it becomes a joke in no time and the bride herself suggests the family’s village for the vacation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211974605-LPPJJSCMQ6OYA42U10LY/Housewive+2.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain A victim of domestic abuse after her husband slaps her, Tapsee Pannu’s character in Thappad, makes a series of changes in her life. In one scene, she can be seen speaking to her mother-in-law, stating how she never dreamt of becoming a housewife when she was little. Her dream was always to become someone popular or powerful. But she chose to become a housewife. In good light or bad, this scene very strongly put forth the other side of becoming a housewife, the one that comes as a reaction to the constant glorification of the ‘do-it-all’ women, the ones who sacrifice and live for the family’s dreams, often by crushing their own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592210989729-FYX0CFDBVZOM7NXP7JXK/Age+%26+Gender+1.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain The movie opens up with everyone wishing the mighty couple played by Alok Nath and Reema Lagoo on their 25th wedding anniversary. Then comes running in Sangeeta, their daughter who already has a 3-4 year old daughter herself. Sangeeta can also be seen referring to Salman Khan as ‘bhaiya’ in the movie which goes to show that she was younger to him. So if Salman was 24, Sangeeta was 23? So she got married at what, 18? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211930432-AGTKGIXZKLFJGCE8452U/Housewive+1.png Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain Salman Khan’s love interest in the movie, Sonali Bendre is a doctor by profession. When they get engaged, Sonali’s father’s character played by Satish Shah can be seen exclaiming how he is not sure how doctors turn out as housewives. Sonali’s character either plays shy, serves food or acts like a doctor in the movie - not sure why she would be expected to drop the only productive thing she did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211345117-Q7WVYXYY61TODZR9ZVFV/Honeymoon+2.png Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain Kangana embarks solo on her pre-booked honeymoon as her groom turns her down at the last minute. She decides to make the journey to keep away from the distressing circumstance and absorb the twist that’s come about in her life overnight. Much like Kangana in the movie, every couple needs a short time off from their regular lives to understand each other and the milestone they’ve reached. Moreso, if the marriage had been arranged by their parents. Bollywood seems to have gotten a taste for this concept 15 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1592211041434-I6DDSSCSB13D1AHT2UE1/Age+%26+Gender+2.jpg Works - Bollywood & Society: Hum Saath Saath Hain A loving and protective father, Irrfan Khan does everything in his ability to support his 18-year old’s daughter’s college admission in the United Kingdom. Although education and marriage are all personal choices along with the attached timelines. But going by the traditional approach depicted in HSSH and the fact that Salman’s character, a son of the family, is internationally educated, a stark contrast can be seen in the depiction of young daughters’ lives in Bollywood across 21 years. https://www.hasrat.net/works/how-woke-is-your-brand monthly 0.5 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e957fcbb0528070f908faf3/1593843646033-78YFRNS5V9KU5IB89XYQ/jenner_pepsi4-5-2017-20170405063743111.jpg Works - How Woke Is Your Brand? 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