KOLKATA, July 25: Governor Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi criticised jewellery advertisements and said that such advertisements had an adverse effect on the minds of people from the lower-middle class.
He also flayed the portrayal of women in advertisements for cosmetics and encouraged NGOs to do something about it.
The Governor was speaking at the launch of Prof Suparna Gooptu’s, book ~ Cornelia Sorabji, India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer.
The book is a biography of the first woman to study at Oxford and join the civil services in British India as the Lady Legal Advisor to the Court of Wards.
The book focuses on the trials and tribulations of a pioneer who had to break into a predominately male-dominated world. Giving the example of Cornelia, who struggled in a male-dominated society, Mr Gandhi said that intellectual subordination has a corrosive effect on society. [Source: The Statesman]
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"In economic life there is extreme inequality and exploitation. Although colonialism no longer exists openly in the political and economic sphere, still it persists indirectly, and this should not be tolerated... In this respect you should remember that in economic life, we will have to guarantee the minimum requirements of life to one and all... There cannot be any sort of adjustment as far as this point is concerned. The minimum purchasing requirement must be guaranteed to all. Today these fundamental essentialities are not being guaranteed. Rather, people are being guided by deceptive economic ideas like outdated Marxism, which has proven ineffective in practical life and has not been successfully implemented in any corner of the world. Why do people still believe in such a theory, which has never been proved successful? The time has come for people to make a proper assessment of whether they are being misguided or not." |
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"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |