The limited utility of the Gender Lens

I was in Assam, in a small village of the Karbi-Anglong people. We were greeted by two Karbi women, and one of them tied a friendship band on my wrist. It felt lovely. It is always like this - in tourism, whenever I meet local women of any area, I feel a certain kinship, a bond, because I know we have many things in common. In my travel company too, I employ many women. It is an unwritten rule,…