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A PAPER ON NATURE OF WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD- STRI SHAKTI ,STRI MUKHI,THE CONCEPT OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD
Radha Rajan
30th January, 1997.
The twentieth century will be remembered as the century when peoples around the world organised themselves to resist and fight oppression and discrimination wherever it existed. It saw colony al rule coming to an end in several nations of Asia and Africa,it witnessed the desegregation of public spaces in the USA and it also saw the end of apartheid in South Africa. This fight to end oppression and domination also caused organized movements to highlight the domination and exploitation of historically 'backward peoples' and non-human nature. This only reinforces the truth that the human brain alone is capable of causing the worst forms of destruction and practising the most terrible forms of cruelty. But it is also true that it is the human spirit alone which can end this oppression by fighting it with typical human courage and determination. Any fool can oppress another with force and power but to practise oppression with the consent of he oppressed - that is a tribute to the ingenuity of the indian mind. A dubious tribute to some aspects of the hindu tradition.
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ROLE OF WOMEN IN REVITALISING THE CULTURE AND ECONOMY OF THIS COUNTRY
RADHA RAJAN
January, 1999
I am very pleased that on the occassion of its sixth international and twenty-first national conference, the Bharat Vikas Parishad has seen fit to bring together a galaxy of intellectuals and persons of integrity in public life to inform us all about and to discuss among ourselves, various issues which affect and impact upon the culture of family, society and the nation as a whole. This effort could not have happened a day too soon for me. Far too often in the distant and and not so distant past, our nation and her societies have been overtaken by events, causing irreparable damage and indescribable misery only because the leadership at all levels has all too often failed to - a) project the present into the future which means to forsee and envision the possible consequences of present happenings; b) failed to see or comprehend warning signals sent out by certain events; c) failed to study and/or take seriously this nation’s past, her history, to be inspired to act and to be informed so as to avert similar occurences and d) simply lacked the skills and the ability to forestall or deal effectively with these events. I do not need to give specific examples for each one of the above mentioned shortcomings. Indian history is replete with instances of the comprehensive failure of leadership at all levels of national life.
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