Vaishnavi Singh is an alumnus of The Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. She is deeply interested in exploring the less understood aspects of something as vast and ever-changing as feminism. Vaishnavi is an opinionated introvert who loves travelling, watching movies and reading everything that she disagrees with.
Indian Matchmaking portrays independent women as incapable of loving or being loved and depicts subservient women as the ones who "deserve" to get married.
In the Indian imagination, an ‘Aunty’ is a middle-aged, usually fat woman who is married and has children. Young women, especially unmarried ones, either do not want to associate with the term or are expected to steer clear of it.
The Second Wave of feminism is usually demarcated from the 1960s to the late 1980s. It was a reaction to women returning to their roles as housewives and mothers after the Second World War.