Women Power - Law has changed

Indira Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj and Sonia Gandhi – three bigwigs of Indian political spectrum might have had to struggle to stay put in their position as leaders on their own merit. The men dominated political arena leave little space for women to thrive let alone hold formidable positions. But they did it. So do Indira Nooyi, Chanda Kochar and Kiran Shaw Mazumdar in their arenas of business.

The highly decorated Anglican Church has split recently, with five of its Bishops joining the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church welcomed the five with stretched arms with the right to practice their own rite for sacraments. A welcome step towards the consolidation of “Holy Sea”. The Anglican Church, a creation of a British Monarch who wanted to have a mistress with canonical approval, have recently anointed women as Bishops and priests with authority to perform church services in par with the masculine gender. This is intolerable for the believers who strongly consider woman as a byproduct of the sixth rib of man, who coerced Adam to have the forbidden apple of Eden and instigate the first sin. According to Bible, woman is cursed along with Serpant, and therefore does not qualify to be the agent of God. Unable to bear the brunt of woman on the Altar, the five robed Lords switched their order.

Mary Roy, mother of ‘Pulitzer’ Arundhati Roy has earned a place in History. She won a 60 year long legal war in the judicial corridors of Kottayam to New Delhi. The toil was for an equal share of the massive wealth her father had bequeathed on her brothers, in the Rome of the East in God’s own country. The Travencore Christian succession Act, a law enacted in the 19th century, practiced by the Syrian Christian clan, depart only a sum of INR 5000/- or equivalent to the girl child as dowry, which include tythe- the church tax of 10 per cent of the dowry. Ms Roy could not accede to this archaic law. She plead for equal wealth, – crores worth in today’s valuation. Her brothers declined to part with. Church backed the brothers and provided them with arms and ammunition to fight the hapless Lady. She won the battles from the lowest to the the Apex Court of the Land. Even then,it took 25 long years, after winning the war, 1985 – 2010, for the legal fraternity to physically bestow her share of land to her. Win is a Win. Mary Roy, you stand out ! Hats off ! For those girls who are covered under The Travencore Christian Succession Act, please note the law has changed. You too change.