Feminist Manifesto

An immersive journey to the Museum of Memories,

"Feminist Manifesto."


‘Feminist Manifesto' is a play directed by Abhimanyu Vinayakumar for Malayali Arts and Social Centre based on the ideas of Nigerian novelist and feminist thinker Chi Manda Ngozi Adichie's ‘Dear Ijeawale A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions’. The Feminist Manifesto is a fictional journey of a girl with her mother to a museum of Memories which is inscribed with the stories of women's struggles in search of answers to some innocent but deeply political questions.

Memoirs are all. History, geography, legend, myth, contemporary drama, all the arts and schools remind us of the hellish life of women. We are all moving away. Trying to escape by pretending. If we know Phoolan Devi, we will know the extreme cruelty of child marriage. If we know Muchilot Bhagwati, we will know how knowledge and education becomes a curse for the girl child. If we know the life of Matsyagandhi, we will know how the woman, who tore her own existence and wanders in the street, is draped in a lie that she has got a new life. If we know Desdemona, we know that the mere suspicion of the central power kills the woman. If we know Nora, we will know that feminism should not be just a talk in modern times. Knowledge is everything. We will be able to complete all the tasks. We will win. Now we are the protagonists. Memories and knowledge will empower us. By knowing what progress is, by knowing what true women's emancipation is, we shall surely win.

The annals of history, geography, mythology, arts, and schools serve as poignant reminders of their arduous lives. The indelible tales of women's struggles refuse to be erased, even as we pretend that the darkness of night is illuminated.