From being a voluble opposition party reacting to every twist and turn of national politics, Mamata Banerjee and TMC are retracing their steps to West Bengal to save their home turf. I write
Good people of Mastodon, I've been seeing a number of posts here that compare the Ayodhya judgment to a husband losing his wife to another man, treatment of rape victims etc. This is quite worrisome.
Women aren't property that one can win/lose claim over. Such comparisons reinforce the idea of ownership over women as passive objects. I have high hopes from this space and how we talk about women here.
So please do continue with the much-needed criticism, but please keep women out of it.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says no #slowdown but her Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar and Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian concede after being sharp questions from MPs.