Gender as a Jigsaw Puzzle
Nandini Bhatia
MY SUBCONSCIOUSLY FEMINIST FATHER by Yashika Singla Aleph Book Company, 2023, 174 pp., 499
July 2023, volume 47, No 7

If feminism was a colour, we would all be colour blind. It is, by nature, a fiddly matter; one that people trip over, trying to understand. It is both an aesthetic and a burden for the modern world we live in; a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece if you like. The metaphors are endless, like its many (mis)interpretations. Enter Yashika Singla. Colour corrected glasses in hand, theories tucked under her arm, ready to clear the fog around feminism—the word, its meaning, and its practice.

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