Decades of stereotypical role setting and toxic masculinity puts extra burden on men. It’s time to set yourself free, we say!Navraj BhatiaMy earliest memory of toxic masculinity is Hindi film dialogues like ‘chudiyan pehen rakhi hain kya?’ ‘mard ki tarah baat kar’ and ‘mard hoke rota hai‘. Such examples are legion and I am sure all of us can add more. When I grew a little more and became a student of English literature, I read a line from Charles Kingsley’s poem The Three Fishers that said ‘For Men Must Work and Women Must Weep’ and took it in my...
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