Gender norms

Suheil Tandon started Pro Sport Development (PSD) which works across 15 states in India and has reached out to 11,412 young people, redefining gender norms using sports.

Prem Sahoo, a professional Odissi dancer from Odisha, credits his lion-hearted mother, Manjulata, for defending his passion and standing up for him when he couldn't.

Questions like ‘why are you acting like a girl’, ‘why do you want to commit sin’, ‘why are you insistent on bringing shame to the family’ were bombarded. But Eshan decided to become an inspiration instead!

The premise for Vishnu Teja to write to President Ram Nath Kovind to be legally granted euthanasia had arose out of two decades of debilitating trauma as a child sexual abuse survivor.

Population Foundation of India (PFI) used a television soap opera as a vehicle to raise awareness on vital gender issues, question patriarchial gender norms, and change attitudes among India’s rural poor. Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director of PFI explains how and why they did so.