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double edged sword - no positive

 "look down" "cover your head" "do your work so you can be wed" She had heard this countless times. Over and over,  as if that was all she was destined to do. a double-edged sword, with no positives to be seen, a woman AND a Dalit, fate surely gave her the short end of the stick, because being a victim of both, cast and patriarchy - isn't exclusive. because upper-caste feminists fight, but isn't this feminism all but skin-deep? for "Hamara Bharat" lives in 2 eras the cities in 2021, but the rest in 1980