Vivekananda gave us back our dignity

Thu, 10 January 2013

11:27

The opinion piece on the Hindu, a response to the piece -- Taking the aggression out of masculinity. Worth a read.

Does one write deliberately as a woman or man when taking up pen and paper? I do not know. But right now, I am writing as an Indian woman. The Indian woman who has held up the torch of cultured living for millennia through self-sacrifice, incredible feats of physical and mental endurance and abiding compassion. I know that the pen is a sacred object; if used unthinkingly as Sanjay Srivastava has done (The Hindu, Op-Ed, "Taking the aggression out of masculinity,' January 3, 2013), it might do more harm than good to the position of women in India. Read

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