State of the Nation: Morality and Indian woman's mind

TOO MANY OPTIONS: Sexual desire is no scandal but live-in relationship is no, no for Indian women.

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“Despite all the material choices if you are unhappy in a marriage where there is no compatibility, then you are left in a life of completely boredom, ”Kakkar added.

Stereotypes changing?

Opinion about men and women is stereotyped to a large extent, but how do women feel about issues that are gender-defined in our society? 77 per cent women are for equal inheritance rights for both men and women while 74 per cent feel there's nothing wrong if a woman goes out to work and only 24 per cent women feel that a woman should not go in for higher education.

The Indian women is neither Sati-Savitri nor is she Durga.

Dawesar feels that Indian women are at very practical level struggling everyday to often earn a living, run the household - the domestic life of the Indian women dose not have any sense of equality. There are very few men who actually contribute to what she has to do at home. And on the other hand increasingly she has to contribute to the outside world. She is doing the best she can.

She is not a feminist in the western sense, not a feminist for the liberator for the cause - Indian feminism is about earning my daily bread and making myself economically independent.

Vasudev said, “Indian feminism is a very conflictual space. It has Sita, it has Marilyn Monroe, it has Durga and Sati-Savitri. There is an Indian modernity Indian feminism and its different from a global feminism or a global modernity and Indian women is negotiating certain spaces and withdrawing some.”

How difficult to be a lesbian Indian women living a single life in the metropolitan city. Would that be a very hard choice to make?

“I presume it’s a very hard choice to make. It’s a lesser of a hard choice to make for a women in a live-in relationship,” she replied.

Is it safe to be conservative, is it safe to live in the family, much more tough to be a rebel much more tough to question the rules by which women are forced to live.

Advani agreed to the statement and said that it’s extremely tough in the society to single away, to live in a live in relationship or to have a lesbian relationship. Its much more comfortable to live the conservative life.

“Don’t think that those who live in comfortable conservative family life are away from modernity. My thoughts on this are quite different. You can enjoy your romantic candle light dinner only if there is a comfort level at home. Otherwise it’s not going to be possible to enjoy anything outside,” she added.

Kakkar strongly disagreed to the statement. He said that most women who are trapped in a marriage of convenience are extremely unhappy.

“As a matter of fact if you actually ask your grandmother and your mother, if you are financially independent, if you are educated, if you have the courage to go out and do your own thing, would you actually last in the marriage depending on roles and how compatible you are with my father, and lot of them would turned around and would say may be I wasted my life.”