There are ways to approach gender, women, discrimination, patriarchy, inequality, sexism, harassment, segregation and violence against women. In fact, the country is reeling under the sheer weight of inadequacies in each of these areas.

The discussion is endless and hence ongoing.

Oftentimes, the entire feminist discourse seems directed at men who have actively and deliberately made this world so unfair and unlivable for women. Where men are not active agents, they passively and willingly accept a state of affairs that privileges the male.

To be fair, some individuals, institutions, and to some extent the governments, have their eyes fixed on solutions now, mainly on how to address this sense of inequality and what the women get out of that as a consequence. They lay down the problems -- discrimination, violence, the physical as well as the psychological and emotional part of it. They suggest solutions in the form of policies and make laws.

Somehow, they can’t change mindsets. At least they haven’t so far.

Not just that, each law and policy that favours women either alienates men or just leaves them indifferent as ever. Perhaps the time has come to bring more men into the conversation.

The realisation is there among all those who think about gender concerns; it’s the response that is varied even when the goals are the same. One response has been to bring men to the centre of the debate, let them hear and not let them speak. We at The News on Sunday have decided to do the contrary. This Women’s Day, we want to hear only men. We want men to imagine themselves as women and see how this changes life for them.

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We know we could be charged of insensitivity to the woman cause -- by giving this agency to men and that too on a Woman’s Day -- but we do this very consciously. We hear the women side of story each year around March 8. This time we want men to become part of a world that needs to pick one day in the calendar as women’s day. We want them to think about it and state what they think. This we feel is going to change mindsets. We have picked writers who are not your ordinary males with their preconceived ideas (and we’ve given them the flexibility to be as creative as they can). But just to hear the women’s story penned down by men is a right move, we feel.

It’s a step away from unnecessary binaries -- a step towards an inclusive and equal world that we so long for.