Woman Empowerment in India is actually going back to the cultural Bharat had before invasions and rule by both Islamic and Christian invaders

Indian National Army, fighting against the Allied forces in World War II, had an all-woman regiment, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, established in July 1943. Unfortunately, due to the short-sightedness of the military at the time of Independence, it did not last. India had to wait until 1992 when women were granted Short Service Commissions under the Vajpayee government during the Kargil War. Women pilots flew in combat zones from 2015, and more branches were opened up. Then, in 2021, under the Modi government, the NDA was opened up for women. Today, we have reached a full circle with an all-women battalion that will even engage in anti-terrorist operations. In the next five years, we might once again see a women's regiment.

Ironically, the first woman warriors in India date back 4,000 years to the Sinauli archaeological site. Years of repression under Islamic rule, followed by Western stereotyping of women's roles under British rule, led to the suppression of women's rights in India. However, mighty as the Islamic or British Empires were, India still managed to produce a Razia Sultan, Noor Jahan, and Chand Bibi, who led and ruled even during Islamic rule in India, where traditionally the role of women is not very strong. I am not counting the Hindu queens who ruled and fought Islamic rulers here, as there were many, and Islam was not able to subjugate all of India completely.

When the British arrived, they found they had to fight women rulers like Rani Chennamma, Ahilyabai Holkar, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Rani Velu Nachiyar, etc. Eventually, the Victorian British norms curtailed women's rights and repressed them. The British influence destroyed many matriarchal societies in India, like the Nairs. Women's education suffered but was protected in places under Indian rule, like the Baroda Gaekwad State, which made education universal in 1906, while the first girls' school was set up in 1875. These notable exceptions existed.

The British, due to the 1857 First War of Indian Independence, saw women fighting and leading armies against them. Like typical Europeans, they shamed and called out the character of such women, especially in the North, calling them all nautch girls (dancing girls), even going so far as to say that prostitutes were instigating their troops against them! The repression that followed destroyed women's rights in India, which even the Islamic occupation was not able to do. The British took women away from leadership positions, even then it was the Indian Ranis who were among the first women drivers in the world. In 1905, we had a woman driver, and the Maharani of Bhavnagar, Nandkuvarba, in 1910, took the British Governor of Bombay for a spin in her car, which made front-page news for the British!

It has taken us over 77 years, but women are once again rising in India. Of course, the Western world likes to tell you otherwise. They, who destroyed women's rights in India, claim to have brought civilization to a nation that existed even before the Greeks did. We had covered drains before King Solomon's time and open drains under the British Raj! Remember your heritage and remember that you come from a nation that has considered women as Shakti. What you are seeing in the CRPF Battalions is a return to our roots. After 77 years, we are finally removing the dust of centuries of slavery and rising once again. Diversity and women's empowerment existed 4,000 years ago in India; we are today trying to reach the same levels we had before the invasion of this nation! This CRPF Battalion is just the first step to regain what we lost!

Where have the women Gone

A young woman today in the metro for some reason that is best known to all the donkeys in the world when the devil enters their brain. Started to show her pugilistic instinct in a most violent way. With choicest of Punjab thrown in that sounded like cuss words. While I was thanking the good lord for not allowing sikh women kripan in his wisdom. Just then Lo and behold she pulls out a rather large evil looking huge pin from her hair and starts stabbing the other woman. While screaming and crying simultaneously in a way sure to damage your ear drums or it could be hypersonic cry of the fabled banshee sure to put cold terror in your heart. 

Whoever called women the weaker sex was demented and needs to be locked up pronto. Anyhow it took some lady cops to stop the fighting, an endeavor they tried and failed. Apparently the government in its most sexist way tries to hire women who are like women must be due to gentlemen doing the hiring rather than  letting women officers doing the hiring. Any how it took several women quite some time to pull them apart and take them out. Then  a rather humongous woman police officer went completely mad and started asking people why we were not intervening in the fight or stopping it. When I was accosted by this rather heavy and humongous woman as to why I was not stopping a fight which was a blood bath. I told her I had no intention of attracting IPC 354A and other rather draconian as well as colonial sections of Indian penal code. She let me go while other gentlemen who obviously almost had a mental break down in seeing such violence were still held back. To be harassed further. Had they intervene they would be called sexual predator for touching women inappropriately and now that they had not they were guilty of not helping women. Sometimes I wonder if we need an armed rebellion against local constabulary who still have not been made aware that India got independence in 1947. They are a fine institution which is still serving the British Raj. Blissful unaware of the events that happened on 15th Aug 1947. Oh the wonder that was British Empire they have left but left the babudom and police here effectively allowing the British to still rule us. After all where else but in a nation shackled can you have a food official drain an entire reservoir in a drought bound area to recover a mobile phone. Water enough to water 1500 acres of land. That man was just suspended and not dismissed. Yet history books tell us we are a free nation! Chose our own government 🤣. Yes we chose our leader but not the government that is still selected by the British. Sometimes popular govt like that of Mr Modi do make a law that leads removal of the blue and red light on their cars but this new law is applicable only in the nation and state capital of this nation and its staye. So much for popular govt mandate to make the babu accountable  to public or a police force that heeds and tries to help citizen or a judiciary that close a case in the life time of the original plaintiff. In fact the higher judiciary finds it offensive to use the local Indian languages. Their Lordship still use English but then india did not have lords; they are a British construct.

Coming back from Pax Britannica.  It was a rather fine start to a morning with 4 hours lost to women empowerment. Making me pray to all the gods that consider this part of travesty and inclusion oops I mean diversity and inclusion compulsory training for which nasty emails will be coming.  I do hope they allow kripan to sikh women and next time they take each other's head. Would some of the men have fainted ? Had this be done in the train?  Perhaps yes. As for women I certainly doubt that those creatures have anything akin to mercy in them. Those are lady like quality which are extinct One wonders where have the ladies gone. Oh well I guess one has to travel more to Thailand then to Goa eh 😀!