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How should India raise its daughters? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)
Shakti
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Liberation
Consciousness
Gender Equality
Body-centricity
Conditioning
Self-knowledge
Womanhood
Education
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the primary reason women in India are not seen in key roles despite education is the societal tendency to raise them as 'daughters' rather than as human beings. He argues that parents, teachers, and society must stop emphasizing gender differences, which are biologically minor but socially exaggerated out of ignorance. By addressing girls in distinct ways—through gender-specific toys, expensive clothing, and grooming products like lip gloss—society messages them that their worth lies solely in their bodies. This conditioning turns a girl body-centric at a young age, which Acharya Prashant describes as a form of violence that numbs the mind and destroys consciousness.