{"id":41091,"date":"2022-01-26T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/26\/cut-the-cussing-the-indian-man-on-a-mission-to-end-sexist-swearing"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:30:02","slug":"cut-the-cussing-the-indian-man-on-a-mission-to-end-sexist-swearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41091","title":{"rendered":"Cut the cussing: the Indian man on a mission to end sexist swearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many swear words in India, as elsewhere, have one thing in common \u2013 they target and shame women. Sunil Jaglan wants to empower women and end the culture of profanities<\/p>\n<p>On a cold January afternoon, women gather on the veranda of a government-run nursery in Sarmathla village in the north Indian state of Haryana. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, they are eager to hear the visiting speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The men and boys of the village mill about, reluctant to join the women, until Satyaprakash, a social worker, encourages them to sit on the chairs provided. \u201cPlease, join us <em>tauji<\/em> [uncle],<em> <\/em>today\u2019s programme is about <em>gaali<\/em> [swear words],\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/26\/cut-the-cussing-the-indian-man-on-a-mission-to-end-sexist-swearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many swear words in India, as elsewhere, have one thing in common \u2013 they target and shame women. Sunil Jaglan wants to empower women and end the culture of profanitiesOn a cold January afternoon, women gather on the veranda of a government-run nursery &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2840,"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":[615,59,62,1203,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/41091","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\/2840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions\/41092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}