You will get back home at night and you know your mother has the food ready. You will see your father laughing with your uncle while he asks your mother for another glass, and she'll get up from the table with the half eaten plate, and get him a glass. The annoying street reporter will ask you for your opinions on the "ageing" actress and how she's only fit enough to play a mother and will look to you with a half smile, fully expecting you to agree.

You, age 13, will bemoan the idea of having kids, and everyone will laugh. You, age 26, will bemoan the idea of having kids, and everyone will laugh at you with a pity you cannot understand. You are only a person because you're someone's sister, someone's daughter, someone's wife, someone's mother, you're someone to a someone. Because that someone is a man.

Worst of all, sometimes that someone, will be a woman. A woman who will be considered more of a woman because she belongs to a higher caste, or a whiter race, a better country or a higher paycheck. I feel as if it begs the question- were the three waves enough? Or do we still need a tide?

But before we contemplate the fourth wave of feminism, we also have to think, does the fourth wave contemplate about us? The fourth wave, globally, now focuses on digital activism, stigma around being a woman and, rape culture. But, the 'waves' of feminism were only defined as such because they represented landmark events for women (voting rights, economic rights, social rights) in American history. Therefore we cannot expect these waves to understand the state of women all over the world.

In her essay "Under Western Eyes", Chandra Talpade Mohanty-Indian feminism and gender studies professor- expresses that western feminism often sees the "third world woman" as a singular monolithic subject. Western feminism, broadly speaking, is often criticised for looking at feminism in developing countries from two angles-backwards and unsalvageable or backwards and in dire need of 'saving'.

In a country like India, 'the fourth wave of feminism' focuses on a different intersectional aspect, of how some women don't just have to face the task of being a woman, but also of belonging to lower castes, religious minorities, cultural minorities and economically marginalised areas. Thus making the task of uplifting our women much more multifaceted.

The fourth wave of feminism in the west, on the other hand, has to deal with different dimensions when it comes to intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw, the legal scholar who coined the term 'intersectional feminism' says, "All inequality is not created equal,". She accurately describes what intersectionality means in countries like America in the quote-"We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality or immigrant status. What's often missing is how some people are subject to all of these, and the experience is not just the sum of its parts."

Women, all over the world, have been roped into a centuries long fight for equality and respect and dignity and it is not our duty as women to compare how high we've come and how low some women are still stuck. Progress doesn't mean much when the progress isn't for all.