Commemorating change, changing commemoration
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March 08, 2021 01:38 IST
With more awareness of other histories of struggle, India needs to ask what it wants to celebrate, on March 8 or 10
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With more awareness of other histories of struggle, India needs to ask what it wants to celebrate, on March 8 or 10
Among the many “international days” initiated by the United Nations, the best known is the one for women. Given its widespread institutionalisation by nation-states as well as private corporations targeting the woman consumer, many may now know something about its history. It began over a century ago as a commemoration of the struggles of women factory workers and was first organised by socialist movements as “international women’s day”.