Women Empowerment: Sensitisation of Police, Judiciary and General Public
| Date | 01 July 2014 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019556120140301 |
| Published date | 01 July 2014 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT:
SENSITISATION
OF
POLICE,
JUDICIARY
AND
GENERAL
PUBLIC
V.P.
KAPUR
Various issues
of
women
and
the general art have been
adumbrated in this article. The traditional facets
of
Indian
culture have been illustrated. The author feels that the holistic
participation with the measures
of
the administration can solve
issues
of
all kinds and conditionalties.
IT
IS beyond our imagination to visualise loftier ideals for measuring the
state
of
any society and efficacy
of
its system
of
governance than to recall
the golden words
of
noble laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, reflecting
his dream
of
an ideal society:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where the knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow
domestic walls ...
"
Here we may read 'world' as our society and 'narrow domestic walls' as
regressive views, mental attitude and behaviour
of
people like the protagonists
of
'Khap panchayats' and some senior political leaders, towards women, in
general, and the victims
of
sexual violence, in particular.
Our
Dhannashastras
proclaim that "where women are respected, there gods reside". The reverence
accorded to Mahakali (Durga), Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati -goddesses,
primarily,
of
Shakti (power), prosperity and education, respectively in Hindu
society, is well known.
P.S.
Rama Raju expresses that "According to studies,
women enjoyed equal status and rights during the early Vedic period and
that later status
of
women began to decline with the Smritis (especially
Manusmriti)".1 In Mahabharata, we find the case
of
Kunti, the mother
of
Pandavas, did not suffer from any disability, although she had given birth to
Karan before her marriage to the king Pandu.
2
'P.S. Rama Raju. Women Empowerment-Strategies and Interventions, Swastik
Publications,
p.
26, 2013.
2Anuradha Biswas, Women Rights
and
Privileges
in
India, Arise Publishers &
Distributors, p. 53, 2013.
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