{"id":22795,"date":"2020-09-17T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/17\/why-doing-nothing-is-a-radical-act-for-indias-women-photo-essay"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:15:49","slug":"why-doing-nothing-is-a-radical-act-for-indias-women-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22795","title":{"rendered":"Why doing nothing is a radical act for India&#8217;s women \u2013 photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Leisure is a feminist issue\u2019 says Surabhi Yadav, whose photography project captures carefree moments of women around her<\/p>\n<p>When Surabhi Yadav\u2019s mother, Basanti, died Yadav realised she had never really known her. \u201cI knew her as my mother, but nothing else,\u201d she says. \u201cI asked one of her friend\u2019s how she remembered her and she told me: \u2018She was the funniest and goofiest in our group.\u2019 Those were not words I associated with my mother. I thought of her as a very serious person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her father was the \u201cfunny one\u201d, she thought, although her mother never appreciated his humour. \u201cNow, as an adult, I understand that part of it is that my father\u2019s jokes were often sexist, often at her expense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/17\/why-doing-nothing-is-a-radical-act-for-indias-women-photo-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Leisure is a feminist issue\u2019 says Surabhi Yadav, whose photography project captures carefree moments of women around herWhen Surabhi Yadav\u2019s mother, Basanti, died Yadav realised she had never really known her. \u201cI knew her as my mother, but nothing els&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[237,59,62,78,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-global-development","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22796,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions\/22796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}