Recently Woman's day was celebrated. Frankly, I'm not proud of having such a day...a day dedicted to women. As though we are some relics from yesteryear. And if nothing else it gives men a chance to joke.. "What about a day for men? and you talk of gender bias". But jokes aside time and again we hear appalling stories about women being victimised. Female foeticide continues at an alarming rate in some states in India. Ironically those very same states who are facing these problems have been time and again producing women who have proved their mettle and placed India on the world map. We have all heard enough and more about the subjugation and ill treatment of women and the bias shown to the male progeny. And many of us have experienced it first hand, some time or the other, to a lesser or greater extent.

More on this later.