क्या हमारे देश की महिलाओं की आज़ादी पर एक लक्षमण रेखा खींची हुई है? क्या भारत में public sphere में औरतों की नागरिकता पर कुछ सीमाएं है और क्या खेल के ज़रिये इन बंदिशों से कुछ महिलाओं को मुक्ति मिल पाती है? आज की पुलियाबाज़ी पर बातचीत महिला एथलीट्स पर। चर्चा के लिए हमारे साथ जुड़ रही हैं लेखिका और पत्रकार सोहिनी चट्टोपाध्याय जिन्होंने अपनी किताब The Day I Became a Runner में महिला खिलाडियों के ज़रिये भारतीय महिलाओं की कहानी बताई है। चर्चा बेहद चिलचस्प है। सुनिए और हमसे अपने विचार भी साझा कीजिये।

We discuss:

* Compromised Citizenship of Women

* Running in public gaze

* Lack of Public Spaces in India

* The role of regulation in safe cities

* Women in Athletics

* Accidental Feminists

* Usha’s comeback after motherhood

* Santhi’s story

* Dividing sports into strict categories

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Additional notes:

Sarojini Naidu Quote referred by Sohini:

“Never, never, for we realize that men and women have their separate goals, separate destinies and that just as man can never fulfill the responsibility or the destiny of a woman, a woman cannot fulfill the responsibility of man…We ask for the vote, not that we might interfere with you in your official functions, your civic duties, your public place and power, but rather that we might lay the foundation of national character in the souls of the children that we hold upon our laps, and instill into them the ideals of national life.”

—Sarojini Naidu at the Special Session of Congress in Bombay, August 1918.

Source: Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes, Cambridge University Press, Pg 94

Quote referred by Khyati:

When the 33rd Session of Indian National Congress met in Delhi in Dec 1918, Saraladevi Chaudhurani presented the resolution supporting the vote for women. Going beyond the assertions of Sarojini Naidu, Saraladevi contended that the “sphere of women” included “comradeship with men in the rough and tumble of life and to be fellow workers of men in politics and other spheres.”

Source: Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes, Cambridge University Press, Pg 94

Chess has Open and Women’s category.

Read more:

Book | The Day I Became a Runner : A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport by Sohini Chattopadhyay

Indian Express | Boxing with binaries: The Imane Khelif story by Sohini Chattopadhyay

The Lancet | Personal Account: A woman tried and tested by Prof María José Martínez-Patiño

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