India’s Ekam Nyaay Foundation announces poster competition to mark International Men’s Day
by Dr. Piyush Mathur
India’s Gurugram-based Ekam Nyaay Foundation has announced a poster competition to mark November 19 as the International Men’s Day. The announcement itself is not terribly well-written, however, partly because it leaves out a lot of crucial details.
The deadline to send out one’s entry is November 8, 2025—and it appears that the posters are expected to be digital only, given that the organisation has provided just an email address to submit one: ekamnyaayfoundation@gmail.com
In a bit of a fine print, the circulated poster notes that the competition will reject AI-generated posters—and that only human-created original entries will be entertained. However, there is no mention of how the organisation would decide whether a poster is AI-generated or human-made, given that all the entries would be digital submissions anyway. (There have been plenty of instances reported from the academic world in which the submitted work was incorrectly flagged as AI-generated.)
The winning entries are promised awards; however, the organisation has not yet clarified how many entries might be called winners and whether they would be ranked—and nor is it clear what an award might comprise.
The organisation has also not clarified yet whether one person can send more than one entry.
Those still wanting to send out their entries for this competition would want to take a look at its poster that the foundation has circulated on the Internet. The poster’s screenshot is included in this notice.
This is a screenshot of the digital notice regarding a poster competition to mark November 19, 2025, as the International Men's Day; it is circulated by the Ekam Nyay Foundation, which is organising this competition. (Credit: Ekam Nyaay Foundation)
What cannot be doubted, though, is that the winners will make some sort of a name for themselves in the digital world and beyond—given that Ekamy Nyaay’s founder, Ms. Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, is a powerful legal celebrity by virtue of her relentless fight against that country’s sexist laws. She is known all across the country, and increasingly beyond, for her vocal and creative advocacy and largely free-of-cost grassroots interventions in behalf of male victims of these laws, sexist law enforcement as well as its exploiters.
Notably, along with Neeraj Kumar, Bharadwaj directed the severally awarded documentary India’s Sons (2022), which significantly affected the erstwhile dominant discourse on sexism in India, especially within the context of law enforcement and justice, and pointed to an objective way out of the heavily truncated academic narrative on that subject. Her advocacy and activism, in and of themselves pathbreaking and influential, had long antedated the production of that documentary.