If gender is a social construct, then its impact is not only limited to enforcing behavioural norms but extends to power dynamics, politics of gender and forming patriarchal boundaries (in this case actual physical boundaries). The term “Zenana” originates from Persian, meaning “of the women” or “pertaining to women.” Women occupants themselves are euphemistically referred…
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Shekhawati — Havelis Reiterating The Tales of Glorious Days
Just how Orhan Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ experiments with your imagination playing with the myriad hues, shapes, ideas, stories, and colours of the Ottoman Empire; Shekhawati enforces you to envision the tales of the most revered silk route period by carefully imbibing the murals on the walls. These murals are the display of the…