{"id":11861,"date":"2017-07-01T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=11861"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:21:51","slug":"brushstrokes-9-simple-ways-become-perfect-sanskari-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-9-simple-ways-become-perfect-sanskari-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: 9 Simple Ways to Become the Perfect Sanskari Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many societies, women are assigned the role of \u2018protecting\u2019 or upholding tradition and culture. Their movements, behaviour and conversations are policed by their communities in an effort to ensure that women fulfil the often unattainable goal of being unwavering bastions of tradition. Perplexingly, the traditional attributes that are so romanticized by the community at large often come in conflict with women\u2019s daily responsibilities and sometimes even their health.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/imaansheikh\/do-you-wanna-know-how-i-got-these-sanscars?utm_term=.wuQZWgNno#.nl7m49BoZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this set of comics<\/a>, BuzzFeed staff member Imaan Sheikh satirizes the extent to which South Asian women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and wellbeing in order to conform to their communities\u2019 expectations of \u2018sanskari\u2019 behaviour. Against all instincts of self-preservation and comfort, Sheikh\u2019s \u2018perfect sanskari woman\u2019 physically contorts herself into impossible positions, hides in public, and more.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many societies, women are assigned the role of \u2018protecting\u2019 or upholding tradition and culture. Their movements, behaviour and conversations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1290,7],"tags":[1294,16,1304,921,680],"class_list":{"0":"post-11861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-communities-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-communities","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-sanskari","14":"tag-south-asian-women","15":"tag-tradition"},"menu_order":930,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/16667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}