Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.4

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.4

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c5.s2.4

But then the dynamics of *vāda* themselves provided occasions for meaningful protests and raising the voices of protests. Śvetaketu, had protested against men’s oppression of women and had told his father: “I raise my voice of dissent against such law. Henceforth no man will forcefully take any woman.” The story of Sulabhā from *Mahābhārata* (see next chapter) brings out a woman’s fight against man’s pretensions and arrogance.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit