[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c5.s2.4 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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. - [Previous: c5.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s2.3) - [Next: c5.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s2.5) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s2.4) · Pramāṇa