Indian. Girl 🆒 👑

She is simply this: a girl who belongs to a billion dreams and one stubborn, magnificent country. A girl who knows that the word Indian is not a cage, and the word girl is not a ceiling.

She is not a problem to be solved or a mystery to be unraveled. indian. girl

Girl. A body to be watched. A voice to be softened. A future negotiated between wedding invitations and exit exam scores. She is told: Don’t stay out too late. Don’t laugh too loud. Don’t want too much. She is simply this: a girl who belongs

Indian girl. Not a hyphen. A whole sentence. A future negotiated between wedding invitations and exit

But here is what the world forgets: the period in between.

So do not reduce her to a stereotype. Do not call her exotic or docile or angry or mystical.