A virtual forum for youth kickstarts conversations on gender equity
DURGA India, a Bangalore-based organisation, wants the youth to be able to have frank conversations around political representation, how to combat sexual harassment, activism, how to tackle safety as a community problem.
Updated: December 16, 2020 9:48:03 pm
Why should we engage with the concept of Gender Equity? To live our authentic lives freely. (Express Illustration: Rhea Gupta)
“There has been a women’s movement for everything, except in politics. A citizen’s movement is needed. The people who are already in power will not change the status quo,” says Tara Krishnaswamy, a political activist, as she discusses the under-representation of women in public spaces. Clap emojis fill up the computer screen, and messages in the chat box fly by as India’s youth engages with one out of many hard-hitting truths at DURGA India’s NGAGE forum.