WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

POLICE NEED TO WORK HARDER

WHERE our daughters, sisters and wives are vulnerable to ghastly crimes, the whole talk of women empowerment is a sham.

 As long as conviction rate remains low, rapes will keep happening.

The police force from top to bottom, needs to be upright, honest and energetic. The grit, determination, perseverance, innovation and stamina of the investigating agencies are abysmally low and smack of apathy and neglect in investigation and registration of rape cases.

                                                                                                                                          

Deterrent laws and better quality of investigation and protection are required to take or other criminal cases to their logical end in courts.

Judges have legal compulsions, they cannot go by emotions and sentiments but by evidence and facts presented by Prosecution Department. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill dealing with sexual offences should be made deterrent by incorporating exemplary punishment to the rapists.

                                                            Dr. SOSHIL RATTAN, Amritsar.

Source: A letter to the editor, The Tribune December 24, 2012.

WOMEN

“WOMEN have taken over”

“WHO says women are a weaker sex? Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru had once remarked: “When a woman moves forward, the family moves, the village moves and the nation moves.”

Women are natural organizers and have an innate flair to perceive problems. Successful handling of Assembly Elections in Punjab by Chief Electoral Office Kusumjit Sandhu has reinforced the point.

No major untoward incident from any corner of the state, putting right people at the right place, achieving a record 78.6% polling and, to top it all women votes exceeding men votes (79.11% to 78.09%)- these achievements have put this strong woman on a pedestal where we don’t cry for women empowerment, rather exemplify the fact that ‘women have taken over.”

Source: A letter by Kanwal Sajeev, Patiala (India) in The Tribune, February 6, 2012.

Man and Woman

Man and woman

are  like the two wheels of

a cycle called family on

which the world rides.

WOMAN

MAN AND WOMAN

It is that togetherness that binds man and woman

And give both a respectable place in the world.

“ Man cannot degrade woman without himself

falling into degradation.

He cannot elevate her without

elevating himself at the same time.”