WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA
We have seen the declaration of the year 2001 as the year of women empowerment.The pages of history unfold the fact that all social and political movements and even great revolutions had bypassed women.Gandhiji brought women to the centre stage of the National Movement.Today women power is a hidden treasure that we are discovering and utilising for the benefit of the Nation. Once when Smt. Sarojini Naidu submitted to the British Rulers a petition for granting poltical rights to Indian Women, she was asked a question,"Will Indian men support your demands?". Today Indians are supporting the movement for women's empowerment. We have already empowered women at the panchayat, block and district level democratic institutions. They have made an impact on the working of our democracy at the grass root level in the society. It is our duty to carry forward this process of empowering women to the state Legislatures and to the Parliament. The responsibility of the women of India in t...