Partial Triths Privileging A 'Male' Viewpoint Meenakshi Thapan FEMINISM in India needs no defence. Least of all from me, a sociologist of education, now working in the broad area of femininity and culture within which I am examining perceptions of the female body and constructions of femininity. Hence, this response to Dipankar Gupta (EPW.Vol XXX, No 12,617-20) who knows how to tell a good tala and tells it rivetingly and compellingly. But all tales well told are not necessarily true or well considered or adequately researched.