She wants to meet Prabhu and Modi to tell them what it’s like to be a woman living with disability. Two separate dialogues, one on disability rights and the other on women’s rights, have seldom focused on differently abled women who are at the periphery of both movements. “We have never looked at disability from a gender lens,” says Virali, who was raised in the US but now lives in Mumbai. More than her petition, Virali is addressing the idea that a woman with disability is somehow incomplete. See Virali Modi’s petition hereNamita Bhandare is gender editor of Mint.

Source: Mint February 20, 2017 19:08 UTC