Women should break out of old mould, says Mallika

BANGALORE: Popular activist and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai said women still suffer today because they feel apologetic about being women, and that only when this deep-rooted mindset changes, women can fight for their rights.
Sarabhai performed her mother's dance drama 'Memory is a Ragged Fragment of Eternity' at the valedictory function of the two-day National Convention of Crimes Against Women, organized by the All India Mahila Samskrutha Sanghatane (AIMSS) on Wednesday.
"No matter where the woman has reached and how successful she is in her career, she still makes room for her husband or father to take the lead in her personal life. Until women start feeling proud about being women, the trend of atrocities and crime on women will never turn upside down," said Sarabhai. She accepted that women of today are still not able to think out of the box and come out in society fearless.
"On the systemic side, unless courts give the right judgments faster, rapists and men committing crimes on women go free and they do not realize what they have done and how heinous it is," she said. She also said that the reason why rapists and other men feel free is because each rape case comes into the courts after 10 or more years.
"There are many ways of making such culprits and criminals realize their misdeeds and setting examples for others. One way is to take away all their wealth, and all type of crime and corruption will reduce drastically," said Sarabhai.