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Ladies' seats? Why not from 543?
THE WEEK India
|May 03, 2026
Sigmund Freud died without answering it.
Hollywood tried to answer it with a sexist fantasy in 2000 about an MCP of a Chicago advertising executive suddenly gaining an ESP skill to read female minds. Just like the infamous Peeping Tom of Coventry who spied on Lady Godiva riding naked, he eavesdrops into a colleague's mind to find out What Women Want, and steals her ideas for selling women's goods. Cheap! Our netas don't have to eavesdrop into eves’ minds. They claim to know what women want—not just free fridges, TV sets, bicycles, bus rides, monthly doles and schools for kids, but also a third of the seats in the lawmaking bodies. MPs a generation or two ago would have said, Cheek! Rouged cheek!
This story is from the May 03, 2026 edition of THE WEEK India.
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