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Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

Book by Shrayana Bhattacharya · 1 quotes · Being Practical, Dissatisfaction, Dissent

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“Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, combative form, demanding that dissent always be obvious and 'out there' in full view of TV cameras and Twitter. So, no act of protest short of elopement, short of the most radical rejection of family, would suffice. Demanding such all-or-nothing actions doesn't account for the costs that eloping and actively abandoning their families would impose on women from any economic strata. The way we express resistance is subject to our own personal calculus of risk and reward.”

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