From: ngopalas@ha02.eng.ua.edu (Nath S. Gopalaswamy)
Subject: Re: MORE ABOUT INDIA / INDIAN WOMEN ARE TREATED FAR BETTER THAN HERE.
Organization: The University of Alabama
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 01:35:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.202813.15287@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, tolia@furnace.ecn.purdue.edu (Anish Arun Tolia) writes:
|> In article <1ath1lINNif7@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> >In India for example, and in cities like Bombay for example try teasing
|> >a woman and see what happens, you will get a sound thrashing from every
|> >one around.

Reeeeeaaaaally? Do tell us more. Let me give you some examples of our ever
famous public coming to the rescue of damsels in distress. On a train near
Madras,[Dadar express, carrying many Bombayites] a gang jumps on board, targets
a female, and in BROAD DAYLIGHT, in the presence of 60 other passengers is
brutally raped just because she openly remarked that she did not like their
attention. Her three male friends are injured when they try to intervene. The
police do nothing as usual and try to arrest the man who filed the complaint
on the woman's behalf. In Calcutta, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, in the presence of
hundreds of commuters, a girl is raped by some goons, just because she compl
ained against the unwelcome attention of the hoods. Again, nothing is done by
the police. Again in BOMBAY, a girl is BURNT alive by some sickos when she is
sitting down to take her exams for her X standard, the police are yet to 
charge the men involved with murder. If these can happen in broad daylight then
just think how much goes on under the cover of darkness.

Sorry for the overdone dramatic tones, but they kinda get the point across
very effectively :-) And this is also to refute the suggestion by Mr Premkumar
that police reports be made for such incidents, when police themselves are
rapists in many cases, how sure can the female be that going to the police 
is such a good idea?

Nath.

|> >
|> >Here the situation is even more worse. People do'nt allow women to make
|> >a choice of abortion or not,  as if her health or wish is no concern of
|> >hers at all. Apart from that it's only in South Asia and in Israel that
|> >women have become leaders of their countries. Compare that to the state
|> >here, where people are averse to having a woman as a Vice-President too
|> >so much are they against women here.
|> >
|> >Regards,
|> >Vivek.
|> >
|> Do you think that eve teasers, rapists and bride burners are the EXCEPTION
|> while women prime ministers are the NORM? For every woman that makes it,
|> millions more are suffering in some way or another JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE
|> FEMALE in a male dominated society. Western society is male dominated too,
|> but to a lesser degree. And last I heard, abortion was still legal. Now
|> consider India, where abortion is legal and even ecouraged and subsidized by
|> the government. Is this good for womens rights? Of course not! Most
|> abortions performed in India are sex selective and has led to a severe
|> imbalance in the male/female ratio.
|> 
|> Anish
|> >-- 
|> >vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
|> >Systems Engineering Laboratory, Department Of Computer Science, 
|> >School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
|> >California State University, Chico, California.