The author has outlined the experiences of women ranging from civil servants to house helps in various cities across India to assert the significance of breaking the silence.ĭeepa Narayan notes that entrusting women with the responsibility of taking care of everyone is in a way conditioning her to ignore herself and serve to become a people pleaser. I double checked the year of publication- 2006 and took time to reflect on the hundreds of anecdotes of the 13-63 year olds only to realize that I too was a victim of sexism. Given my liberal upbringing in a household largely dominated by women, my first reaction to this book was that its content didn't apply to me or my times. It put me off to think how one these women could be identified in a crowd and if her identity really mattered. On my last visit to India, I was shocked to see that most women were veiled in Jaipur, a city ony two and a half hours by road from Delhi, the nation capital.
So the available options are to either kill girls or train them to conceal themselves with a burqa, purdha or other means of camouflage to blend into the crowd and not stand out or draw attention. The author rightly points out that our culture teaches women not to exist. This attitude, a result of conditioning that girls are subjected to, nourishes our deep rooted cultural notion of what's right and wrong, and is what Deepa Narayan's Chup: Breaking The Silence About Indian Women addresses. This, is withstanding the fact that co ownership of one's husband's property amounts to almost no authority over it and thus, offers no security. The women I spoke to felt it unjust that they inherit property from their family as well as their husband's. This attitude, a result of conditioning that girls are subje I remember getting into a heated debate with my female colleagues back in 2017 when the Parliament of Nepal passed a bill granding sons and daughters equal rights to paternal property. I remember getting into a heated debate with my female colleagues back in 2017 when the Parliament of Nepal passed a bill granding sons and daughters equal rights to paternal property. Shocking, troubling and revolutionary, Chup will hold a mirror to yourself - and you may not like what you see.more These behaviours may seem harmless, but each one has enormous impact, and it means only one thing - that Indian women are trained to habitually delete themselves. In this rigorously researched book, based on 600 detailed interviews with women and some men across India's metros, social scientist Deepa Narayan identifies seven key habits that may dominate women's everyday lives, despite their education, success, financial status and family background.
In this rigorously researched book, based on 600 detailed interviews with women and some men across India's metros, social scientist Deepa Narayan iden Do you pride yourself on being a strong woman? Do you aspire to be one or support one? Do you consider yourself a feminist? Chances are that you behave in ways that areĮxactly the opposite, as this pathbreaking book argues. Do you pride yourself on being a strong woman? Do you aspire to be one or support one? Do you consider yourself a feminist? Chances are that you behave in ways that are exactly the opposite, as this pathbreaking book argues.
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