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Listen to the assertive new Indian woman
M J Akbar Sunday September 27, 2009
Sir Harcourt Butler was a great civil servant of the British empire, an icon who understood India, befriended Indians like the Raja of Mahmudabad and advocated causes like the Aligarh Muslim University. As a former governor of United Provinces (today’s Uttar Pradesh), he offered a word of advice for the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge, in a letter sent from Rangoon on January 16, 1916. The most powerful influences in India, said Sir Harcourt, were priests and women. As long as any political organization was unable to mobilize both, the government had little to fear.
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Mahatma Gandhi, who had no shortage of priests alongside, jolted the British during the non-cooperation movement in 1920 and 1921 precisely because he brought women out of their ancient closet,
“We know from his autobiography how shamefully he treated his wife. He was transparently honest and he had much less to hide from anyone else. Nothing can be found if other public figures are to be scrutinized because things have been carefully hidden and suppressed.” Gandhi, the family man. Gandhi’s Grandson.
- Gandhi used to beat his wife up routinely.
- Gandhi was having sex when his father lay breathing his last upstairs.
- Gandhi denied sex to his wife for decades
- Gandhi was an adulterer and had a spiritual marriage with two British women who were in the Ashram
- Gandhi slept naked with his niece (and 12 year old girls) and other women to prove that he could control his manliness.
- Gandhi would do enemas twice a day and if he liked you allowed you to enter the piece up his rectum.
- Gandhi used to drink his own urine and also the urine of cows. Chilled Urine drinking hot in India. From Gandhi to Prime Minister Desai to common man
- Hindu India: A gift from the Hindu Gods:Cows Urine: UK Telegraph reports by Julian West
- Gandhi son left him and converted to Islam
- The racist Gandhi was a total failure in South Africa where he tried to stratify the society, Whites, Indians and Africans. His racism towards the Africans was horrendous. His horrific advice to all Jews to commit suicide was abomible. His atrocious letters to his friend Hitler were the height of stupidiy.
promising Hindu women the end of Ravanraj (British rule) in six months if they wore homespun and spurned luxury just as Sita had rejected Ravana’s temptations. There was a similar contemporary upsurge among Muslims. Maulana Muhammad Ali’s redoubtable mother Bi Amman was the first Muslim woman to address the Muslim League without a veil, and the wives of Hakim Ajmal Khan and M A Ansari set up the Women’s Khilafat Committee in 1921.
Nine decades later, priests and women remain the most powerful engines of political mobility, with one huge twist in a long tale. The influence of women now far outweighs that of priests. Social development is not even. There are sharp differences both between communities and within communities. But the dominant voice of the next decade will be an assertive new woman with a modern spine.
July 28, 2009
The Muslim vote remains powered by the exhortations of the ulema, but the queues of women in ballot order, even if in hijab or burqa, are evidence of a new dynamic. They have understood the power of the secret vote and exult in exercising it. The Congress, a principal beneficiary in the last general elections, may want to check why it lost a safe, minority-dominant seat in a Delhi by-election. Did veiled women register a protest against rising costs in the kitchen, or rediscover questions about the Batla House deaths last year?
One reason why the BJP’s Ram temple campaign succeeded in the late 1980s and the early 1990s was because it energized women, and made them stakeholders in the proposed temple by asking them to contribute a brick each. But that model has dated, or is in the process of becoming passe. A girl born in 1989 would have voted in 2009.
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The BJP’s stagnation, or slide, can be partly explained by its disconnect with the changing profile of Hindu women. This is not limited to metropolitan India. The very presence of imitation brands in small towns is proof of the spread of aspiration. This is not a passing fad or fashion; it is rooted in a new mindset. The most powerful weapon in the armoury of the modern woman is choice. Choice is liberating at both the individual and collective level. Imposition, disguised as obedience, stability and security, is yesterday’s story. Today’s woman wants the final say, whether in dress, marriage, lifestyle or the vote; she does not want to be told that she cannot wear jeans or enjoy Valentine’s Day, or go to a pub of an evening if she so chooses. Indian women can see the suffocation of fundamentalism in the neighbourhood. That is the last thing they want in India.
Much is being made, in Delhi, of the fact that the Kashmir valley celebrated one of the most peaceful, happiest Eids in memory. Don’t overdo the celebrations. This may have less to do with India than with Pakistan. Even a cursory look at Pakistan tells the Kashmiri young — and particularly young women — that whatever its faults, India just might be the better option. How many young men would want to live within gunshot distance of the Taliban? How many young women would seek a future in a land where the clergy insists on twisted gender laws? As they might put it, India is ‘‘less worse’’.
Pakistan’s favourite Kashmiri leader, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Syed Ali Shah Geelani, pleaded with every Kashmiri Muslim to sulk along with him on Eid; he was ignored. Geelani was a teenager in 1947. The teenager of 2009 does not recognize the teenager of 1947. There are no jobs in conflict, unless of course you want early retirement from the burdens of existence. The young want life; old warmongers offer death.
The happiness of life, the joy of individual liberty, will define the politics of India in the foreseeable future. Those politicians who do not recognize this are condemned to irrelevance. Who understands life better than a woman? Women give life. Men take it.
Women have listened to priests in every age of recorded history. It is time for priests to listen to women.
Are we losing the race?
Jug Suraiya Monday September 07, 2009
Are we Indians losing the race? Are we developing a victim mentality which encourages us to make real or imagined racism to be the cause of all the evils that befall us, often through our own sins of commission or omission?
The question gains relevance in the context of Anand Jon Alexander, the Indian-born US fashion designer who has been sentenced by an American court to 59 years for serial rape. Anand Jon - who conducted his own defence - was indicted by the court for raping several young women whom he had lured by promises of a career in modelling.
No sooner had the severe sentence been pronounced than a number of Anand Jon's family members and other well-wishers made public statements that the designer was a victim of racial bias. Anand Jon's Delhi-based sister, Sanjana, has claimed that her brother had been 'framed'. Using the hook of racism, she has asked for the Indian government to intervene. "I want the government to take some action… We are victims of racism." None of Anand Jon's champions has asked the question as to where the racism was when he became such an acclaimed and successful fashion designer in America - a success that he might not have achieved in his home country, India.
Racism. The magical buzz word that instantly replaces reasoned discussion with raw emotion. Never mind the facts of the case. The real villain of the piece is racism. Which, invariably and inevitably, is directed towards us Indians.
The ugly face of racism was seen to lurk behind the recent detention of Shah Rukh Khan for two hours by security personnel at a US airport. But was SRK detained because his name is Khan and his skin colour is brown, or could there have been some other reason, such as the Pakistani identity of the co-sponsors of the show the Bollywood star was going to perform in? But, by and large, public outrage in India at the supposed 'humiliation' and 'insult' offered to the iconic star focused on one incendiary word: racism.
Yes, there is racism in the world. And yes, it is sometimes directed at Indians (as, indeed, we Indians direct our racist attitudes towards others, notably those who tend to be darker-skinned than us or in any way different from us). But to take totally disparate events and situations - SRK's airport detention, Anand Jon's trial, attacks on Indian students in Australia - and lump them all together under the blanket heading of racism is to do ourselves a serious disservice.
In today's globalised world, racism is not just an anachronism; it's a hateful and obscene anachronism that all of us, all who call ourselves civilised - irrespective of ethnic stock, or skin colour, or nationality -- have to individually and collectively fight at all levels. For example, the attacks on Indian students have been clearly racist in nature and have rightly been taken up by representatives of the Indian government with their Australian counterparts.
But by trying to equate individual incidents - such as SRK's airport misadventure or Anand Jon's trial and conviction - with real instances of racism (such as the Australian attacks) is to trivialise and undermine a very real and serious problem.
If we keep crying 'racism!' all the time - even when it's patently not called for - we'll be seen as what we are in danger of becoming: self-pitying victims suffering from a self-inflicted inferiority complex.
As the huge - and hugely successful, by and large - Indian diaspora has proved, we are as smart and capable as anyone in the world, and sometimes more so (which is one of the reasons we sometimes find ourselves racially targeted, as a kind of left-handed compliment). Let's not mar this image, and this reality, of the can-do Indian by superimposing on it the caricature of a can't-do no-hoper who has literally lost the race.
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