empowerment and liberation and women

After boggling my head for more than a year over woman liberation I have come to a conclusion that suppression of women is not a problem that has a one fold solution. I doubt if it has a solution at all. The change that we wish to see is not through any ACT or provision but there needs to a a change in attitudes! Mr. Sanjay Mattu explained to us the entire concept behind objectifying a woman's body and establishing the entire SHAME factor . So in a patriarchal society the only way a man could be sure that the child who his wife gives birth to is his, is by creating an environment so hostile , that a woman is trapped in the realm of her own femininity! I am not sure if I am perfectly satisfied by that explanation,  mostly because coming to terms with it is scary for me!


Also this whole feminist issue is kind of a no issue for me. Please do not get me wrong, all I mean is that I feel that the way to bring about the EGALITARIANISM is to stay egalitarian, if i stress to much on my womanly woes, i am inviting subjugation. Hence, I shall defy what tries to bind me, and ignore my limitations and suffer my own consequences.

If I were the PM

On the occasion of the 63rd independence day of our country I, the Prime Minister of India announce that for today the price of petrol is Rs 12 per liter.  Today the forces in Kashmir will stay in their stations, today we will not discuss any issues : commonwealth, Mamta Banerjee, naxalites, Pakistan, nothing. Today we take a break. Sit at our homes , do nothing. Enjoy your freedom to do nothing. Dear countrymen, happy independence day!

Sanitation and India

In order to update my blog this week I googled ' Sanitation' and I came across a really interesting article about these women in a village called Medapally in Andhra Pradesh who belong to various self help groups and each of them have assigned themselves a street that they clean twice a week. How cool!

http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/dec/hlt-medepally.htm

I think the importance  of sanitation is getting really undermined in India these days. Not only does this mean that there is a lack of institutional efforts but also that the urban media does not pay enough attention to it. A few days ago , we all saw a documentary called Q2P. A beautifully directed satirical film on the availability of public toilets for women in cities. Although the film shed light on a lot of issues I'll not digress in this post. There was a segment where the film talked about the condition of Mumbai municipal schools. The state of toilets there is sop bad, there was poo all over the floor. In an interview one of the teachers said that she had got an infection from using those toilets Girls avoid drinking water in order to avoid needing to go to the loo, which is terrible for their health.

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

The use of new technologies to extend the efficiancy of agricultural practices is agricultural exxtention. The efforts of the indian govt started after independance with the grow more ffood campaign