Why an Indian men’s rights group is burning underwear
Earlier this month, an Indian men’s rights group launched a campaign that sent social media aflutter.
The NCM India Council For Men Affairs half-burnt their underwear and dispatched it to local politicians to show their discontent, and protest against what they call “anti-male policies” and “women-centric gender-biased laws” in the country.
The campaign was met with support from fellow men’s rights activists and ridicule elsewhere, but it did spark a conversation about gender dynamics and how they place in India’s legal framework.
The group argues that India’s legal landscape is baised against men. They cite provisions in the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act of 2005, rape legislation, alimony and maintenance laws in particular as being far more favourable to women than men.
These laws, they claim, leave men vulnerable to emotional, material and legal abuse by women and, therefore,
