Women Reservaton Bill: A Deliberate Dilemma


Women, half of the universe, of entire creation, of men aspirations. No-body had even imagined without their participation in human life throughout the centuries. Even more, their contribution fetched men of their comforts and pleasures. The life cycle of men rotate around the women. Every second they think of women either married or unmarried or even married about unmarried. The reason behind all these aspects lies in the universal relationship of human beings and the instinct of men and women, which is natural and driven by the nature itself. Hence, we can justify the relations of women with men by giving equal status, pride and treating them as half of entire required phenomenon.

But, in India it is entirely different compared to rest of the world that here women has been treated as “service maid” at home or subordinate of men employees. There are no such ethical values that can follow, even though men daily pray to the God and go around the temples. But one thing was seen as pleasure to the entire women community that, one issue has come up with agenda of all political parties that “some” political reservation should be given to the women. This is nothing but one kind of diversion and amusement that to deviate the attention of women movement that rose, because of which the issue has been appeared on the agenda and has been nurtured for years without any resolution and commitment.

Here, one should consider about the “motives” which are working under-currently not to make any outcome for women reservation. The first thing is policy makers (politicians) who are supposed to be at a majority to accept or to amend it. The politicians might have different backgrounds of Ideologies, Castes and Religion. But in India, the Caste and Religion plays a crucial role while making any policy for administration. The subordination as hierarchy has been justified in Hindu religion and in other religions also where in the people have been converted physically despite remaining virtually same. As to say carriers of their original religious culture, customs and tradition in which the subordination or in other terms Male domination has been imbibed.

While discussions going on about to make any decision regarding sharing power with women, the engrossed motives of male domination or insecurity of political hazardous situation which would arise immediately manifests itself the volatile mentality of men. Because, in India women have been kept away from mainstream except pragmatic situations over centuries. For the first time the women, at least, got leverage with Hindu Code Bill which had threatened the existing hierarchy during the first decade of our independent India. During the debate over that bill also were predicaments due to anti-women personalities rather now. The main aspect of equal justice to women has not been recognized as legitimate right of a civilized society. Particularly, in India the feudal tendencies and social evils are still ruling the minds of present generation. The male metaphor emanating out of our society is still adhesive to the extent that even “highly educated” males are being lured towards social evils and negative thinking. We may trace out and attribute some reasons for these tendencies to Filmmakers in our country (Even though some good film makers are there). Every body knows how the female characters are being depicted into novels and characterized on screens. In most cases our film heroines being submissive and always placed as to seek “protection” from protagonist who is male and hero of the story.

The male dominance still prevailing because of the “safe-guards” created perpetually by the patriarchy through ideological concerns. What ever may be the political party, most of having been dominated by the male (except Sonia Gandhi, Mayawathi, Jayalalitha, Mamatha benerji, Sushma swaraj etc;) the leaders of political parties, mostly, were the products of patriarchal society in which anti-women metaphors have been imbibed through different channels that too hard to conceive or to oppose. The “unconscious” way of protecting the patriarchy by the male who were representing in entire political system in the country. The spectrums of our politics are the very same threads out of single cloth. Facade may be "Homogenous" in supporting women rights and their empowerment or pretending as to daring to introduce the women reservation bill in the parliament, still concerns with ideology and stiff political motives that not to lose their base among women community who are being desperate in electing the patriarchal governments..but...unconsciously.

By
Narsing.G.Rao