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The political scenario of our country is set to see interesting times as a new all-women party – The National Women Party (NWP) has been launched.
The political scenario of our country is set to see interesting times as a new all-women party – The National Women’s Party (NWP) has been launched. Founded by medico and social activist Dr. Shwetha Shetty, the party described itself as ‘the party of mothers’ and will contest half of the 545 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming general elections.
Talking about her party Dr. Shetty spoke about how gender disparity still exists in politics in our country and hence women’s rights and needs are constantly side stepped. She also pointed out that the women’s reservation bill has been stuck for over two decades and is yet to see any concrete action. Her party says it will concentrate on these essential issues.
Recently, a political collective ‘Shakti’ was launched, which urged men and women to reach their MP and advocate the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill. This collective was once again an initiative to ensure that women have ample representation in the house that makes the rules and regulations that govern us all. Currently women have only a dismal 8% representation.
The fact that women’s safety and security in our country is not given the importance it deserves is no secret. When the severity of crime is too high and there is outrage across the nation, the ruling party takes some action to pacify the crowd. But no action is taken to ensure that the laws passed are correctly enforced to deter potential criminals. The result is an increasing rate of crime against women. Our hope is that an all women party will be empathetic and understanding towards such women’s issues.
We are one of the few countries which had a woman Prime Minister as early as 1966, Indira Gandhi. We have also had a woman president – Pratibha Patil and currently have a woman External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj. This shows that our women have the ability to shine.
The gender disparity present in education and employment needs to be addressed and corrected. The sad situation of female infanticide and honour killings that plague our country needs to be curbed. The scary incidents of rapes, molestation and murders that hamper the independence of women need to be stopped. This will only happen when women step in and take up the mantle.
National Women’s Party and other initiatives like these could be the beacon of hope that we have all been waiting for. They could be the future leaders who would lead us towards a better tomorrow. I wish them all the best and hope that we see more such initiatives that bring more capable women into politics.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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