India, April 30 -- Women's History Month came and went in India without much noise. In a nation that prides itself on women-led panchayats, goddesses on currency, and women in uniform, the silence was not just absence - it was telling. Why does Women's History Month remain a footnote in India?

The question is not merely cultural, but structural. In India, history is not just what is remembered - it is also what is not erroneously erased. The absence of a popular commemorative culture around women's contributions is not for lack of material but because memory here still follows the grammar of power - masculine, monocultural and unitary. There are women freedom fighters we forget until a tweet appears from a government handle. Hansa Mehta,...