Enter the urban middle-class woman. Her "tiffin" might contain quinoa salad instead of parathas. She wakes not to the grinding stone, but to a Fitbit alarm and a Zoom call. Her lifestyle is a negotiation: she drops her daughter at school, tells her mother-in-law that she will be late due to a client meeting, and orders grocery supplies on BigBasket while stuck in metro traffic.
: Women have been instrumental in preserving indigenous art forms such as Madhubani painting , Kantha embroidery , and classical dances like Bharatnatyam and Kathak .
