Rohitash Kr

Meet Rohitash Kumar Brain Behind 

Women History Museum (IWHM )

Success doesn’t happen until you work hard towards achieving it. In today’s fast-paced world, where things change within the blink of an eye, it is important to understand the flow of the wind and learn how to direct it according to your benefits and create opportunities for a better world.

As we know Women artists have been marginalised for centuries. Gender bias is less overt today, but contemporary women artists still face many obstacles and disparities, as well as persistent underrepresentation in museum collections and exhibitions worldwide. Their historical precursors still deserve to have their stories told.

Rohitash Kumar Is Aiming To Revive A Tangible Testimony Of Our Women’s Past Through A Dedicated Museum

During his work as a media professional, Rohitash Kumar can across a number of such statistics pertaining to female infanticide that shook his very core and thus he decided to do something about it. He soon left his well-established job as a programme producer in 2014 and started Like Girl Birth, an initiative to fight against the heinous act of infanticide.

From there on, he went on to work with a number of NGOs fighting for women’s health, safety, and empowerment. Passionate about his work, he kept working in the direction despite constant financial crunches and opposition from his family members who kept urging him to get in a job that “pays well.”

Money comes eventually when the intent is right,” he said as he smiled when I recently met him for an interview. Rohitash is currently working on an idea quite unique and grander than any other.

It all started a few months ago while he was playing with his little niece and trying to educate her about his work when the eight-year-old innocently said, “Why don’t you start a women’s museum?”

While innocently said, the idea struck him as an ingenious one. A lack of Indian women’s narratives from Indian histories was something that had been bothering him for a long time anyway.

“The thought that the young women of our country had hardly anyone to look up to was something that had been haunting me. I was thinking of organising a Women’s Day exhibition to commemorate their efforts but that would have been like a one-day event and I wasn’t sure if it would have made much of a difference. The idea of a museum hit me as something else altogether,” he says

He adds, “It made me realise that we need something more lasting than an exhibition or two. We certainly needed something like a museum that stands as a permanent testimony of the great women of the past who have been sidelined by our history books and political narratives.”

The thought led Rohitash to dive into extensive research on all the women achievers and path-breakers from Indian history. The more he read the more he was left flabbergasted by how conveniently their contributions had been erased by the sands of time, amnesia systematically enforced by the patriarchal forces of the country. Thus, the idea of Indian Women’s History Museum was conceived.

He shares, “Through Indian Women’s History Museum (IWHM), we aim to retell history and change the future. We believe that knowing women’s history gives all of us—men and women—the power and inspiration to succeed. We believe that our history is our strength.”

“IWHM is a space to explore and celebrate the lives of women of India. It aims to discover Indian society through the lives of women, past and present, by highlighting the myriad roles played by women of the country,” he adds.

His determination, dedication and constant thrust for achieving something the highest in life became reasons for his successful life. He has been planning to help many more such youngsters and to elaborate on his helping circle. He struggled with a lot of things before getting to where he is today

The team of msventure appreciates his outstanding innovative ideas and wishes him all the best for his future.