The ancient Dharmashastra, repeatedly caricatured and selectively invoked, has become a permanent fixture of modern India’s political and ideological battles. AI generated image Many people who might have seen Rakshith Shetty’s Sapta Sagaradaache Ello will remember the heroine’s famous dialogue: “Manu, you are my ocean.” How beautifully appropriate this sounds today! Our esteemed Indian academicians, CJP protestors, our beloved youth icon Rahul Gandhi Ji, and our Nishu Ji see

Rahul Gandhi’s latest clarion call to “smash patriarchy” is less a revolutionary manifesto than yet another of the Congress scion’s revealing exercises in political condescension. It presumes that Indian women need to be told what their liberation should look like and that the prescribed route leads straight to Rahul Gandhi’s politics. India has spent decades moving from treating women as dependants to recognising them as citizens and political actors in their own right. Yet

Says, girls are being relegated to remain caged, but boys get full freedom to do whatever they want Pune : In an all-out attack on the ancient ‘Manusmriti’ social code, Congress Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi issued a clarion call to “Smash Patriarcy” which seeks to control, confine and silence women, while denying them freedom, dignity, safety and economic independence. Speaking in bouts at the fourth edition of ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in Pune, Rahul Gandhi blunt