by Mayavi Morpheus » Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:07 pm
You are right Justa... TN is ahead of AP in many fields. Be it in providing quality education, creating jobs, lower population growth, lower number of people below poverty line, industries and several other things. Hyderabad is lagging and is way behind Chennai or Bangalore. I dunno how much credit goes to Jayalalitha, but Chennai is doing better than Hyderabad. That\'s the hard truth.
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Coming back to the original topic, Dreamboy, ancient Indian society was a matriach society and not a patriach society!!! Surprise surprise, read up some history books. Women were not oppressed in olden days. Though they didn\'t enjoy the same level of freedom as men, they were treated way better than the way we are treating them now. Reason, you may ask? Many, the main reason being their protection from invading forces, Afghan hordes in particualr. That\'s when India\'s culture started changing. All this sati, etc. you are talking about started during that age and was not practiced in BC as you put it. The sati practice was started by Rajputs. The women used to die voluntarily if they were attacked and defeated. If a palace was seized, all the women in the palace committed suicide, to avoid being raped and enslaved. That\'s how Sati started. Same with Dowry. Parents used to voluntarily give away huge amounts of money. Ancient India was not poor like today. Before the Britishers arrived India accounted for 25% of the world\'s GDP. Average Indian farmer was atleast three to four times richer than an average British farmer. Money was never a problem, so dowry was not a problem. It\'s only when the finances became thin that dowry became a big problem. Also in 90% of the dowry cases, it\'s the women who are culprits (moms of grooms who harass their daughters in law). And if you observe the people around you, you\'ll observe that it\'s the women that create problems for other women and not men. Well, in most of the cases. So I don\'t understand how you are gonna change the evils in society by making women PMs, CMs, Judges and police.
May the Fries be with you!