Pointing to the prosperous Indic civilisation where women held all major public portfolios, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, put adequate women’s representation as a precondition to the development of any society.
“Ancient Indic civilisation was prosperous because all the important public portfolios were held by women – education or knowledge by Saraswathi, wealth or finance by Lakshmi, and even the power by Shakti. We had a great feminist civilisation where all the important responsibilities were given to women,” Ms. Pandit said stressing the need for adequate women representation in all public spheres.
She was delivering the keynote address at a seminar on nationality and national unity organised at Gulbarga University as part of the 19 th conference of Political Sciences Teachers’ Association on Thursday.
