Vaishnavi Sundar: The plight of Indian women, and the men who contribute to it.
Channel: Male Allies Challenging Sexism
Date: 2023-11-03

Vaishnavi Sundar's opening talk at the Men Challenging Sexism Conference 2022 in Cardiff.

India, a country where a woman is raped every hour, a bride is set on fire every six hours in a dowry dispute and almost 90% percent of illegally aborted foetuses are female, to merely exist as female in the face of rampant male violence is no ordinary feat. Why is male violence against women so unhinged in this country? Who can help stop it? Vaishnavi Sundar explores all her talk "The plight of Indian women, and the men who contribute to it".

Vaishnavi is a writer, self-taught filmmaker and a Women’s rights activist from the south of India. She writes about various human rights issues facing Indian women and makes films under her production company Lime Soda Films, is the contact for Women’s Declaration International India and founder of Women Making Films, a solidarity network of female filmmakers.