I used to be proud of being a woman until I was ‘Empowered
Of all the fatuous concepts, terms and ideas that Rahul Gandhi is given credit to, my favorite has to be the all-pervasive ‘Women Empowerment in India’. In his interview at a show, he recited the word as diligently as one would recite God’s name during exams. He gave the women of India a new tool, an enormously empowered one, that they could use (and are using) to get away with anything. All their brazen wishes are now justified in the shadow of women equality or women empowerment. Women empowerment has taken a new definition for some, which is to be given unconditional freedom. I come from a relatively liberal family wherein I have enjoyed a limited independence all my life. I say limited independence because though my family sent me to study abroad and live my life independently, I am still instructed on the dresses I should or should not wear (at least when I am in India), what pictures to upload on my Facebook profile, whether to have a night out with my male friends and many...