In the dominant language of economics, the women I met mean very little. They are nothing more than faceless members of a tiny numerator which helps calculate India’s female employment rate. The tickets they bought to watch Shah Rukh movies are cast as just another financial transaction, helpful for calculating box-office sales. The media they worked so hard to purchase represents another commonplace sales figure for a technology giant or a media empire. Their struggles and labours, embedded in these transactions, are obfuscated and deemed irrelevant. They become simple data points in a graph,
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