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Saroj is the founder of ZealGrit Social Welfare Foundation, a grassroots organisation combating malnutrition in rural Bihar. In Bihar’s overlooked Supaul district, Saroj Kumari is tackling malnutrition at its root - using trust, creativity, and lived presence. This isn’t just public health; it’s quiet resistance where it matters most.
Being called “hormonal” even jokingly reflects gender bias, particularly if it is used to undermine, dismiss, or delegitimize your feelings or behavior based on gendered assumptions.
We’ve held space, we’ve held silence, and we’ve held men while they broke us - all in the name of love, patience, or hope. But this essay is a reckoning. It’s about asking men to finally carry their own burden of redemption - to stop waiting for women to do the heavy lifting of their healing. Because unless they choose to carry their own burden of redemption in both public and private life, all their allyship is just performance. And until they learn to carry their own burden of redemption, we will keep living in a world half-built, with broken trust and unfinished change.
For too long, women’s health in India has been overlooked, under-discussed, and wrapped in silence. Dr. Michelle Frank is working to change that—one question, one conversation, and one digital community at a time. What began as a chance job at a parenting…
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