When her tall persona fails to intimidate Indian menfolk, the Women & Child Development Minister, Renuka Chowdhury uses candour to bring home the point – if Indian men really care for their wives, they need to use condoms on a regular basis. She even 
suggests to women that if their husbands are irresponsible in picking up the safety device on their way home, wives should take matters in their own hand and do the needful. In as much, the minister is rightly out to shake up the very foundations of India’s orthodox Patriarchal setup. And the drive behind her bold utterances? Yes! To prevent Aids and other ills plaguing Indian society.
One should applaud Renuka for spearheading a frontal attack on the sometimes hypocritical moral fibre of Indian society, but oft en she does give a feel of overstretching her brief and indulging in glib talk. This was evident when she recently talked about registering all pregnancies & abortions within the country. Of course, one doesn’t dispute her intentions, which are primarily directed towards preventing female foeticide (a study by The Lancet, a British medical journal, reported last year that upto 500,000 female fetuses are aborted each year in India, leading to birth of nearly 10 million fewer girls over the past two decades), but what one does argue against is the wishful thought that such a measure can be effectively implemented in a country like India.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
suggests to women that if their husbands are irresponsible in picking up the safety device on their way home, wives should take matters in their own hand and do the needful. In as much, the minister is rightly out to shake up the very foundations of India’s orthodox Patriarchal setup. And the drive behind her bold utterances? Yes! To prevent Aids and other ills plaguing Indian society.One should applaud Renuka for spearheading a frontal attack on the sometimes hypocritical moral fibre of Indian society, but oft en she does give a feel of overstretching her brief and indulging in glib talk. This was evident when she recently talked about registering all pregnancies & abortions within the country. Of course, one doesn’t dispute her intentions, which are primarily directed towards preventing female foeticide (a study by The Lancet, a British medical journal, reported last year that upto 500,000 female fetuses are aborted each year in India, leading to birth of nearly 10 million fewer girls over the past two decades), but what one does argue against is the wishful thought that such a measure can be effectively implemented in a country like India.
For Complete IIPM Article, Click here
Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
