Is This Just a Story?

In the midst of the very active autonomous women’s movement in India, Yugantar collaborated with the research and feminist activist collective Stree Shakhti Sanghatana, provoked by an urgency to broaden discourses and political practice on domestic violence that had focused extensively on dowry death. Through an intense period of a consciousness-raising style sharing of their own varied and multi-layered experiences of violence and domestic pressures, members of both collectives created a script which focuses on feelings of isolation and depression while also developing a complex female character in the process of articulating her situation and finding support in friendship.