Have you noticed a rather funny pattern? After Ajit Dada Pawar's sad, and sudden, demise, there is a weird competition to predict the future of his party. Forget day in and day out, literally it is hour in and minute out, that crazy news items about what is happening, or not happening, in that camp are shrieked, yes, indeed, 'shrieked' is the word!
Why would it be so? The rather obvious answer is that the t.v. channels need something to show 24 x 7, and this unfortunate event is obviously their milch cow, right? The more sensational the coverage, the better the TRP. Anyways, ours is the post-truth era! No need hence to worry about any veracity, right?
I find editorials about what Sunetra Tai should, or should not, do/say, how right/wrong she is, quite some 'game'. Obviously, the hidden agenda is unmistakable. More than that, does it occur to these so-called intellectuals that they are rubbing salt in to her wound?
Why not let her be? Why think that she is not capable of (or responsible enough, for that matter, to think of) deciding what could be good for the party of her husband, for herself, for her children? After all, she is in her sixties. Why infantilise her?
Why do these self-declared intellectuals overlook the fact that she, too, comes from a political family, both from the parental and marital ends. Why forget the lifetime, and thus practical, advice she would thus get, in addition to the suggestions by the party functionaries?
Why deny her any acumen, political and/or otherwise? Why reduce her to a non-thinking nobody? Why not grant her some sensibility? Honestly, all this media circus smacks of, rather, smells of, a prejudiced attitude to women, and not merely as leaders!
Pratima@The entire episode proves how there is not only glass ceiling for women, but also ropeways that are cut off at every step. Oh, yes, I better clarify that the ropeway I here refer to is of the Tanaji Malusare and Sinhgad variety!
Quote of the day: "The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such are incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the (societal) tendency to lower women's self-respect," says Karen Horney. I could not have found a better quote to go with our discussion today.
Word of the day: infantilise Infantilise means treat (someone) as a baby, as a kid, and in a way which denies her/his maturity age-wise, or her/his intellect, forget wisdom!
Let us learn grammar: Today onwards, we are going to look at a few examples of the transitivity of verbs. The wind howls, the sun shines, the door opens are examples of the intransitive usage. Sure we can add adverbs of time, of manner, et al. These sentences, actually verbs in these sentences, do not, however, need an object. We can say, for example, "The sun shines brightly in the morning in India". We have used all sorts of adverbs, right? An object, however, is not needed.
Tomorrow let us look at the transitive verbs which would further clarify the notion of an object. Oh, yes, we shall explain all the adverb types as well.
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