Comments on: Women reservation in India

By: rohitj

rohitj — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:36:47 +0000

@Vishnu : I see what you are saying, and ideally thats what should happen. But this isn’t easy, considering corruption and having to arrange way too many people who believe (and are ready to do something about it) in similar ideas. If you ensure that women are in government, these women will not sit quite about the women rights issue. We already have such bills for “gram panchayat” and it has been quite successful, why not extend to every where. We have been trying forever to get education to everyone, that never happened either. Giving power might be helpful. Oh, and I agree that the time constraint and the 33% limit should be maintained, otherwise we might be in trouble. the 33% limit atleast.

By: Naresh V

Naresh V — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:01 +0000

I would've used "I feel you"... if not for this

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:01:53 +0000

@rohitj: In fact, the phrase is “I feel you”. Which means he understands what you’re saying and agrees. You’d be more put off by that phrase I guess

Also fully agree with Naresh: tackle it at a lower level. This is NOT a solution, not long term, not short term. In Pronoy’s words, all this does is make some people “eligible to be oppressed”. Empower them the right way (teach independence, freedom of thought, make aware fundamental rights, do much more in addition to all of these right at the level of education in schools.. have training programs for teachers to treat male and female students alike, test teachers for such biases before hiring them in schools..this is just off the top of my head, there’s SO MUCH you can do at the right level. This is an easy way out which makes them feel good, but really does nothing for anybody.

By: rohitj

rohitj — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:33:11 +0000

“feel for you” : does that mean that you understand what I am trying to say or something else? Sorry, I am not good with languages

Well, I think I need not use Gandhi’s example here, but what I wanted to say was that Gandhi’s non-violence movement was ideal, but seemed unrealistic, though it did worked. Here, ideally we shouldn’t have any reservations, but we do need them IMO.

I agree, what females need more is education and the ability to stand for themselves, and I think this reservation will give them the platform for that.

By: Naresh V

Naresh V — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:38:50 +0000

Arguing that this is not going to help is a good exercise in astrology.
Jokes aside, I feel for you when you connect SP, Muslim votebank-appeasement and the general practice of backward Muslim populace to not give women her appropriate rights because of their dogmatic faith.

I don’t get what you wanted to say by mentioning that you don’t fully support Gandhi philosophy – how does that figure here?

And, yes, 1/3rd is just fine. What the female gender (in India) needs more is a good education and the ability to stand for themselves. Rest shall follow.