Brave new girls of 70s who redefined Indian cinema

The 70s spelled many changes and gateways were opened to many new ideas and dreams for a better and more humane social order.

- Nirupama Dutt

The 70s spelled many changes and gateways were opened to many new ideas and dreams for a better and more humane social order. Perhaps this was the decade that made the greatest difference to women who started rethinking their lives and roles in a largely patriarchal world and feminism not only took root but also started making waves. This was the time when equal rights advocates, like Gloria Steinem, Kate Millet and Susan Miller, made their voices heard at the international level.

It was a big leap from the old suffragette movement when women in Britain in the 20s with women demanding the right to vote in 20s to the declaration of the International Women's Day on March 8 came from the United Nations in 1977. Declarations don't spell change but it was the change that had organically come in the hearts and souls of women with education, employment and closer home the participation of women in the national freedom movement.

Now my readers may wonder why this women's liberation babble when women's day was a subject for the month of March and now we are well into April.