How to raise a boy: My son’s modernity is different from mine. So is his patriarchy

It wasn’t too long ago that I was teaching Hindi sentence-making to my eight-year-old son. We stumbled upon a sentence which didn’t astonish me but prompted him to pause. The sentence was: Ram khelne ja, Sita roti la (Ram go to play, Sita get a roti). Each half of the sentence was accompanied by an […]