What it means to be an R. Anuradha

R. Anuradha  was a woman whose #feminism, unlike the dominant variety, was never complete without man's participation. So fighting #patriarchy hand in-hand with man is something that connects her with the Female #VedicRishis ( such as #SuryaSavitri) and #BhaktiSaintPoets ( such as #Meera, #Andaal, #HabbaKhatoon) who asserted and/or fought for female identity that carries with it
#CivilizationalUniqueness in comparison to their #European modern day counterparts who base their fight against patriarchy on an
#adversarialrelationship with man per se and thus making no distinction between patriarchy as a system and man as a potentially humane agency.
Her challenge to patriarchy, mostly through her routine chores and writings not directly related to the #DiscourseFeminism, is also a challenge to the #WesternFeminism as an extension of #EuropeanMind that looks at the world as #BinaryOpposites and is thus #Exclusive in nature. This Me vs You, Us vs They, Man vs Nature, English vs French, etc are logical extensions of the #SemiticFaiths claiming monopoly over the ways of knowing or reaching the #Truth or #God. Interestingly, #Marxism is no exception to this #SemiticExlusion.

In this sense, Anuradha belongs to a rare breed of feminists who have mostly gone unnoticed by those who, like their counterparts in other #interdisciplinary areas, are 'genetically' born with '#EuropeanEyes'.
Miss you Anuradha, miss you so much... in your death too, as in life, you have ended up uniting the Alumni of the #TimesSchoolOfJournalism 1990-91 batch, the alumni who had not met for 20-25 years!