Yes. India has enormous challenges. But the fact remains that hundreds of millions of people have come out of poverty in just 25 years.
It's time the narrative changes.
Reality is that women are lot more autonomous and free to do what they want to do in rural areas as well as are men. Gender ratio is much much better in rural areas all over the India over urban "educated" westernized cities. (The same westernized Indians are actually the first one to criticize anything Hindu traditionalist or rural). Women work in fields as well as men. Of course in a traditional agrarian family based society of Indian villages, gender roles are defined - but they are defined for men as well as women and none are more oppressive than the other.
Unfortunately those are all nuances that don't sell well in English speaking people who are suffering from superiority complex.*
*Which includes English speaking Indians and foreigners.