Wednesday 27 January 2016

ON REPUBLIC DAY INDIA FAILED TO GIVE HER WOMEN THEIR RIGHT TO PRAY
(1000 WOMEN ARRESTED WHEN THEY TRIED TO ENTER A SHANI TEMPLE WHERE ONLY MEN ARE ALLOWED)

India is truly a diverse nation. Our 67th Republic Day saw members of an all women regiment performing
daredevil shows along Rajpath that was so long in India considered a male domain, while in another part of the country, a few hours from the hip and happening business capital of Mumbai, a group of 1000 strong women was barred and arrested by the Maharashtra government when they tried to enter a Shani temple that has closed doors to women since ages.
The protest was led by Bhumata Ranragini Brigade which had announced to worship Lord Shani at the sacred platform as a symbolic gesture to break the gender barrier at the shrine.
The president of the organization Trupti Desai had earlier threatened to use chopper to enter the temple if stopped by security forces. And Maharashtra government was prompt in arresting the protesters, who had squatted on the streets after being prevented to proceed to the temple. Only if they were this prompt enough when Dalits are murdered or children in slums are raped.
What was more amusing is the manner in which ministers and Hindu sadhus and sadvis maligned a religion that has forever been considered as a philosophy rather than religion. They went on to say Hindu scriptures bar women from entering Shani temples just like Islam bars women from entering mosques.
Shani Dev is one of the Navgraha devtas for the Hindus. The Shani temples are considered as a home without doors that has no restrictions for his followers and visitors to his temple. The devotees are considered to acknowledge fear but not of enemies. The fear of the wrath of Shani Dev is what keeps the devotees away from sins and evils.
The priests have come up with hilarious reasons stating legends unable to quote one single scripture that might suggest only men are allowed to put oil on Shani Dev in the temples. They tried to put in illogical explanations as to Shani idols being swayambhu idols, meaning that they regenerate on their own from the Earth, which incidentally many Shiva idols are too. The oil can be put only by men as the effect of Shani Dev’s wrath is considered to be less on women. The wrath of Shani Devta destroys the life, health, wealth and reputation of a man. Women are largely unaffected from the effects of Shani Dev.
In a bid to relate to women, it is believed that since women are not affected by Shani Dev’s effect, they need not get close to the Shani idols to pour oil.
Many in the patriarchal temple and worship sites in India assert the chastity of women is very delicate. It can be maligned even by the moonlight Women prefer to stay away from Shani Dev’s idol as a mark of respect, just like the Indian women have for their elders.
It’s not that women like me are interested in entering the Shani temple or for that matter any temple. But what surprises is a country whose Constitution provides equal rights to all its citizens irrespective of caste, creed, gender and religion has temples and mosques barring women from entering and worshipping at their free will. Some maulvis even supported the ban on women from entering the Haji Ali Dargah stating its a part of the Islam law, something that is not practised in a democratic republic called India.
Shani or not, Allah or not, what we women need for sure is our freedom and not our chastity.


Monday 25 January 2016

THIS IS WHY I HATE FEMINISTS: THEY WILL MAKE ANY STATEMENT TO PROVE THEY ARE SMARTER THAN MEN

(CELEB FEMINIST KATIE HOPKINS CALLS FOR EUTHANASIA VANS TO GET RID OF ALL THE OLD PEOPLE AROUND)

Here’s a woman who says ‘People with Dementia are blocking beds and there is no point to their lives.” And when that woman happens to be celebrated feminist, British television personality and newspaper columnist, Katie Hopkins, then one wonders is feminism a word defined beyond the boundaries of humanity?
I have occasionally felt curious to know why many women deliberately try and need to prove they are superior to men just by doing and saying things that they otherwise do not believe in or are definitely shocking and negative to the society at large.
Do they need to prove they think different, they are forward, they are superior to men by making explosive statements like the one Hopkins makes? Else, how could Hopkins at the age of 40 even be “super-keen on euthanasia vans” and say there are “far too many old people around?”
She feels “it is ridiculous to live in a country where we can put dogs to sleep but not people!”
Her comments come shortly after she admitted regretting some of the extreme language she used against migrants in a column she wrote in the Sun entitled “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants”.
In an interview by Michael Buerk in Radio Times magazine, Hopkins says: “We just have far too many old people.” When asked for a solution, she goes on to say: “Easy. Euthanasia vans – just like ice-cream vans – that would come to your home. It would all be perfectly charming. They might even have a nice little tune they’d play. I mean this genuinely. I’m super-keen on euthanasia vans. We need to accept that just because medical advances mean we can live longer, it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.”
Hopkins prides herself on never having apologised for anything she has said. Well, that’s exactly what most so-called feminists believe in. Making sensational statements that have little standing in this world and theoretical solutions that have little practical needs. Hopkins is definitely a mad woman and she says stuff undoubtedly to get a bit of publicity that she is looking for, in whatever form it is. But doesn’t she join the bandwagon of feminists who have over the years tried creating more of a male-female divide, rather than putting forward rights of women as rights of citizens of a civlised world?
I would love to give more points to my cook and maid who have worked hard all these years to raise their respective daughters and have finally sent them to colleges. They have stuck to one girl child. They didn’t produce any more so that they can give education to the daughter and she gets a chance to study and join a proper job in a country like India where in many states a girl child is killed in the womb.
To Katie Hopkins I can just say, she is 40 now, just my age, and I would hopefully wait to watch her turning old in a decade or two and taking help of an euthanasia van to end her life. And anyway, even now at 40 we really do not need women like Katie Holmes. They are a sham and a shame to the human world.