Women on Top !!!

So we finally have a woman as the president of this Largest Democracy in the world ... Big deal ... While announcing Pratibha Patil's candidature, Sonia Gandhi hailed her nomination as a "historic occasion".

According to the ever-delightful Sonia Gandhi, it was a true symbol of women's empowerment in India. Yes, she really thinks we are stupid enough to buy that line Truth be told, one was downright disgusted, and insulted, when a woman as president of India was equated with the overall empowerment of women in the country.

It is obvious that Pratibha emerged as the top choice mainly due to her loyalty to Gandhi-Nehru family. That, along with the fact that she was a compromise candidate, what with the Left sticking to its guns and spiking the candidature of other prospective candidates.

To an outsider it would seem that the women of India enjoy high status and respect, equalled only by the reverence we reserve for our gods. And they do, but only in name. On one hand, we Indians chant various incantations praising women and on the other, we feel no qualms in suppressing them in more ways than can be counted. The same ghar ki Lakshmi' is beaten to pulp if she fails to bring a hefty dowry or bear a boy child. Millions of women in India face discrimination and poverty often linked to Age - Old traditions which require the parents of a bride to pay a large dowry to the family of her eventual husband

And that is just one example of the many atrocities inflicted upon women. Women in India, like the president, have a ceremonial high post in society. Go ahead, fete Pratibha on her victory but Just don't call it women's empowerment. It is a symbolic sham and means very little.

Now coming to the Statistics Mrs Patil, 72, won nearly two-thirds of votes cast in state Assemblies and in India's parliament ...The former governor of the Northern Indian state of Rajasthan described her win as "a victory of the people".

Some people see her victory as an important step towards Gender equality in India ... It may sound funny but that is what they have to say :-)

Anyways as I have touched the point of Women Empowerment, Gender Equality blah blah blah in the same breath i also want to briefly talk about Women Reservation for that Matter the General Reservation in our Country ... In the first place can any one Make me understand Why exactly we need the reservation on the basis of Gender, Caste and Religion ??? May be in 1950's and 1960's there was a time when the Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste people used to be treated very badly by their Upper Caste Counter parts and they used to have limited access to different resources like Hospitals, Temples, Educational Institutions etc ...

So May be at that time it was the Need of hour which Made the Members of the Committee which was created to draft the Constitution to go ahead and give reservation to that Section of people who were facing discrimination from all facets of Society ... Same holds true for Women reservation too ... Now the Scenario has Changed May be it has turned upside down a complete 360 degrees and No longer the SC and ST People are discriminated on the basis of their caste Neither the women ... Always you can come up with some exceptions and Just by pointing to those one or odd circumstances saying that we still need reservations on the basis of Gender and Caste is nothing else than Sheer Stupidity ...

Why should Women and a Section of people from SC, ST's be given reservation in IIM's, AIMS and IIT's ??? does that make any sense and by doing so aint we diluting the Output that these premiere institutions are gonna provide ... Think hard you yourselves will get the answer for this ...

Anyways I m planning to put up a separate write up on this reservation stuff ... So the bottom line is Should the reservations be there ??? Ofcourse there should be but it should be based on Financial Status rather than on a Meagre Gender and Caste basis ...

Bips Oops !!!
Now that the factoid is in the public domain, I guess its okay to talk about it: Bips had a boob job. There, I said it.

Is that News? Apparently so. For those not in the loop, this is about a Gorgeous actress called Bipasha Basu getting silicon implants to enhance her God-given breasts, in order to do better justice to her role in a movie appropriately titled Jism (Body) ...

The news was recently broken by a tabloid, quoting the surgeon who performed the operation and claims he was not paid for his services. What’s the bet it is the same man who leaked the story to a friendly journo? Is that what its come to? What became of medical ethics?

Jism capitalised on Bipasha’s ample assets, and made serious money for the producers. After its success, Bipasha became the IT girl, with a string of roles that required skimpy attire. Her bikini clad appearance in Dhoom-2 , plus her sizzling item number ( Beedi jalailey ) in Omkara propelled her into a bracket that saw big bucks rolling in.

How short sighted of her not to have paid the surgeon his fees, considering they amounted to such a piddly amount in comparison to what those enhanced breasts earned her. Well, the paradox today is that these surgeries have gone legit. No eyebrows go up in shock and frankly, Nobody cares. Every other Aspiring actress goes under the knife to fix assorted body parts. The only thing big about this deal are the extra inches a surgeon adds. Too bad Ms Basu’s doc isn’t a Gentleman. I believe after this leak, he never recovers his money :-)

Let's have another Beedi BIPS