In the wake-up of the nationwide lockdown announced on March 24th, 2020 in India, families and
romantic partners found themselves forcibly huddled to share the same space. A dominant portion of
the media and popular culture has represented this domestic realm as a safe haven, and the time of
the lockdown as a time of rest and leisure.
Ek Ehsaas draws attention to a criminally unheard and under-represented outcome of the stay-at-home mandate, that of domestic abuse. It argues that the brunt of the anxieties born out of economic hardship is borne unfairly by women, as their partners unleash violent, abusive, impulsive, compulsive, and controlling behaviours and aggression on them.
Read LessEk Ehsaas draws attention to a criminally unheard and under-represented outcome of the stay-at-home mandate, that of domestic abuse. It argues that the brunt of the anxieties born out of economic hardship is borne unfairly by women, as their partners unleash violent, abusive, impulsive, compulsive, and controlling behaviours and aggression on them.
