SHAPING MASCULINITY

Every Indian man knows the rules. Don't cry. Be the earner, the protector, the strong one. Look like the hero on the screen. Nobody told him what it would cost. Psychologist and researcher, Dr. Paras Sharma traces the hidden crisis of body shame and impossible standards that urban Indian men carry, and have always been told not to name. Drawing on intimate conversations with fifteen men in Bengaluru, Shaping Masculinity asks what Bollywood taught a generation of boys about their bodies, what the school playground sorted them into, and what it costs to spend decades inside a story you never chose.