Amlan-da, Interesting artcile on a much reported issue but I found this interesting
*** But there is hope. I take heart at the fact that divorces are shooting through the roof, at least in urban India. The increase in the number of divorces, largely fueled by the newfound financial freedom of women, is a great thing to happen in the Indian society. In the past because women outside of marriage had no financial freedom they had had to put up with abusive and oppressive husbands, in-laws, and members of their own families. With careers of their own that the new economy, slowly but surely, is affording them, they can at last walk out on their husbands far more easily than Indian women ever have been able to. Perhaps you would like to comment on the high divorce rate among Muslim women and their empowerment - not only in India - if high divorce rate is an indicator of empowerment - as you put it. Umesh Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree, good article, Amlan. Hope you keep writing more on such topics. Its a shame when we come across stark examples of women being molested and ill-treated all across India. It becomes all the more shameful when such molestations occur in public and the public is more or less mute. But this is not new. I remember the incident at Rabindra Sarobar in Kolkata, many years ago. Many women were raped when the lights went out. And of course, Delhi, Mumbai, Bihar, Orissa have always taken the cake. And when such things happen, the real character of the country (or the state or city) come into play. You will find people making all kinds of excuses. One thing worse than such incidents is the rush of people coming to the rescue and excusing the culprits. The attack on some NE women seems to have taken an ethinic twist - that they looked different was enough for good-for-nothing Delhi louts to take advantage. In other incidents, it seems that caste seems to have played a role. A similar situation exists with the plight of young children who are working in menial jobs all over the county. What could be more shameful for a country to place a certain portion of it GDP on frail shoulders of the weakest sections of its population. --Ram On 1/20/08, Amlan Saha wrote: > > TEHELKA just published as "opinion" a longer version of my email to the > list on the topic of women in India. > > http://www.tehelka.com/story_main37.asp?filename=Ws260108Failing.asp > > Thanks to everyone from assam list who wrote in to > encourage/criticize/vehemently disagree after my initial post. > > Amlan. > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/ http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! - a smarter inbox. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
