An Open Letter to the State Government from the Women of Karnataka
Many women’s organisations as well as other organisations working in the human rights and social justice area have come together to draft An Open Letter to the State Government from the Women of Karnataka. The anger, the call to action, the challenge to the government, the display of women’s power - everything about the letter is fantastic, but in particular, I loved these lines:
“If women are visible and active in so many fields of public arena including political spaces, it is not due to concern or action by the self-serving political parties that are ruling either at the center or in states, but due to hard struggles waged at every front including home, work, community, religion and politics by countless women over the past many decades. We have had to fight every inch of the way and will not be cowed down by cheap goonda tactics. We will begin to teach all those misled mindsets with perverted ideas of good women and bad women what women are and what they can do to transform the world – starting from our own families once again, if need be!”
It is too much to hope of course that politicians will feel any shame on realising that their politicking for petty ends is visible to the public. But, perhaps, they will feel scared to lose this votebank , this aware audience and take some action against anti-social elements atleast to retain their seats?
But why does it take such HORRID incidents to make a concentrated call for change??
i have been appalled at the sexist/ mcp attitude of some very well educated- so called broad minded people….education really has to begin at home and at school
Isnt it funny how the stench of politics seems to attract the very basest of emotions in the most narrow-minded of people?
art - while mcp attitudes exist in very elite drawing rooms, perhaps this incident is getting so much attention because of the violence involved. I have no issues if people restrict their mcp sentiments to their own self!
sri - true. and are people like us guilty because we do too little? we want to keep our hands clean and stay away?
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