It was 15 years ago when they first started talking about dirty words. Tamanna Mishra and Neha Thakur often discussed how uneasy popular Indian expletives made them. Mishra, a communications consultant in Bengaluru, and Thakur, an Airbnb host in Mumbai, noticed increasingly casual use of these profanities in mainstream entertainment. The problem wasn’t the swearing itself, but they were bothered that many of these expressions seem to have biased, bigoted, or misogynist origins. This spurred the two women to launch The Gaali Project on social media in September 2020, to…
