100 years of women's day

100 years of women’s day and for 25 years I have been marching Pune's streets

…yet every maid who has worked for me, still gets beaten up by her drunk husband!

Meerut … a woman cop beat up a woman making love to her spouse in a public garden

…for over a decade we have demanded fully manned women police stations!

We have tried to teach ahimsa to women jailbirds

...isn't it time we taught ahimsa to the women in uniform also

We will pass the women’s reservation bill after decades of pushing in the Parliament

...only to find that many Indian women will still live in the semi-feudal 20th century.

What my friends must we do to change our strategies?