1.This mother embracing and accepting her transgender daughter's identity by gifting her one of her saris.
2.This woman's gorgeous photoshoot that shuts down the stigma around baby bumps.
3.These 14 beautiful, dark-skinned women shutting down conventional beauty standards by confidently confessing what they love about themselves.
4.This badass bride who decided that wedding cars were too passé, so she entered her wedding wearing aviators and riding a frikkin’ Royal Enfield Bullet.
5.This woman who turned down an arranged marriage because the guy wanted her to get rid of her dog.
6.Ileana D’Cruz not sparing a single fuck to sanskaar with this modern Indian bride photoshoot.
7.The first openly transgender couple tying the knot in Mumbai...
8.And a resultant photoshoot which depicts their great and powerful love story.
9.This couple getting up in the middle of their wedding and performing a heavy metal set just because they wanted to.
10.These Instagrammers wearing badass makeup to decimate the idea that being sanskaari is part-and-parcel of being an Indian woman.
11.Actress Saloni Chopra's Instagram series that called out the ever-present construct of slut-shaming in India.
12.This mom who wanted to find a husband for her son, so she posted India's first "groom wanted" ad.
13.This politician’s mom savagely silencing a troll about having "free sex".
14.This woman who called out all the people who shamed her for staining her jeans while on her period.
15.This woman deciding not to blindly follow tradition, but instead asking her would-be husband a bunch of relevant questions before agreeing to an arranged marriage.
16.Sania Mirza perfectly responding to Rajdeep Sardesai's question about her "settling down".
