Hyderabad: “It is not enough to celebrate a special day or mark a day for women,” says Telangana State Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, the Governor talks on how she had as a young doctor felt the need to get into politics.
“Being a doctor, I felt it was not enough to serve the society, that you also need power,” she says and issues a ‘five-capsule’ prescription for women and the society to ensure equality for women in every sphere of life. She calls for a realization that the way women are depicted by the entertainment industry may be robbing women of their natural right to reject unsolicited advances by men.
Excerpts from the interview marking International Women’s Day:
What can women, the younger cohort, do to be part of a generation that can take us all forward?
The younger generation of women is more intelligent, they act with more responsibility but are also struggling to balance professional and personal…