Gulabi Gang Essay

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At the beginning of Gulabi Gang (the film) Sampat Pal (the woman who founded Gulabi Gang or Pink Gang) she and some other members of the gang engage in a stick fight. This pretend stick fight was encouraged by Sampat, who wanted to see the women’s fighting abilities (Gulabi). This scene encapsulate the essence of Gulabi Gang effort to “turn the table” so to speak, to challenge gender role and women status in Indian society. Sampat Pal who has excellent leadership skills which is essential to any social movement, uses what one would call a very feminist “agenda” by fighting (literally and figuratively) for women’s rights and equality. Even though, what Sampat and the Pink Gang do seems like an extremely difficult thing to do in a “patriarchal” society (I have reservations on using this word, because really, which society isn’t?), however, Sampat seems to know how to take an advantage of the same system she is fighting. For example, …show more content…

One of the first challenges that faces women in their society is women’s visibility where Sampat fought for her own, even before Pink Gang was an idea (Fontanella-Khan, 80). And she continues later on with her gang members, who were still afraid of being recognized in the public-sphere (Fontanella-Khan, 135). Also, Pink Gang tries to make the role of the government more effective in protecting women who suffer layers of social stratification. For example, they follow up with many cases that involves child marriage, abusing and killing of women and eloping with police and judicial authorities. And most importantly, Sampat Pal constantly tries to help women to become more self-reliant. And always reminds mothers to love their daughters the way they love their sons. “The world is bad for girls, why isn’t it bad for boys?” Sampat sang to the women in order to open their eyes to other possibilities (Fontanella-Khan,

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