By Bernama,
New Delhi : Indian men do not seem to feel embarrassed or resentful falling at the feet of powerful women but they can be both clumsy and aggressive with most women who clamour for equality or appear vulnerable and dependent, said an activist quoting her book.
“When it comes to the powerful women in Indian politics, they have made their place under the sun after coming out of male domination,” a women’s right activist and writer Madhu Purnima Kishwar.
Her book, Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws, is a collection of Kishwar’s writtings, which tries to explore the reason women’s rights law in India, and provide practical solutions to some anti-women practices, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
The most powerful women politicians of India share the common characteristics of cunning and extraordinary resilience, the writer quoted words from her recently launched book.
In the book, Kishwar takes a long and hard look at the four dominant women politicians- Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Jayalalitha and Mamta Banerjee.
“The mesmeric power these women exercise over our political life provides us with interesting insights into the Indian male psyche”, Kishwar, who is also the senior Fellow at Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDC) says.
While Indian men have made it fairly difficult for ordinary women to feel comfortable as equal participants in the political domain, they tend to succumb easily to the demands of women who are are courageous, fearless and hard to browbeat, she adds.