On February 15, when 10 women officers from the Indian Army flagged off from the Chennai Port, little did they know that the grueling journey from Chennai Nizampatnam-Vizag-Nizampatnam-Chennai on sea would help them charter a new course in the history of the Indian Army.
What is feminism? It is all about fabricating a staunch belief in sterling equality. A feminist is someone who believes that equal opportunities should be provided to deserving candidates, irrespective of gender. Feminism was a product of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
Even as the world watches Russian President Vladimir Putin closely for a clue about what he’ll do next, he’s not the only autocrat we should worry about. Be it North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, our bucket of autocrats runs over with above 50 world ‘leaders’ falling in this category. And supremacist groups such as the Taliban.