Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Age of Madness

Of course, nobody has the time to realise, and fully understand, how frightening the situation is in India, today. Is this where we are headed? Looks the same to me.

Whether it takes place in Afghan wastelands, in Mangalore or in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian republic of Gilead, one thing is obvious: every form of religious coercion involves the regulation and control of female behaviour.>>> Indian Express

Apart from the reference to women as 'female', and by extension passive, entities, the rest of it sounds about right.

This might be extreme pessimism, but we should not head down this path.

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