It has been really......reeeeeeeeeaaaally long since iv made an effort to put down my thoughts online.... I always think to get it done n never got time...well.... or u may even say that i really dint make the effort... like my boss told me somtime back... I dint manage time right... "If u really want to do it... u wud find time fr it". I dont dispute his wise words... any way here I am... back again... making an opinion!
There has been loots of hulla about reservations fr women... gender equality being spoken about everywhere.... I just read the Sunday Times n found a sizable number of articles about women power! There are few strange facts abt gender equality... think abt this.... we all know that in India we are way behind gender equality.... dowry deaths, crime against women, female infanticide, selective abortions etc are very high in our society, women are still denied literacy, they are expected to play the complete homemaker even if they have a full time career. Still, we can afford to have a female CM, PM, Speaker, President etc. While a progressive society like that of USA still has never had a female President! Is it coz we are more hippocritical? I dunno....
Looks like they have passed the bill.... so..... Is it a landmark achievement? hmmmmm.... I have my doubts.... think abt this.... whn Rabri was the CM of Bihar... we all knew that Lalu was the one who was runnin the govt... hers was a proxy govt! Imagine how many are goin to misuse this reservation and have proxies running govt fr them?
So if u ask me... I say "ITS A VERY VERY BAD IDEA!" We dont need reservations.... whn the time is right... whn our society is ready fr a parliament with a 50% Women, we will have it! It will reflect the progress that women in our society has made... till then we can wait!!!
