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Amazing, that the article fits 2021 as much as it did when you wrote it. Like they say, for everything that has changed, everything remains the same. Your response to the angry readers were perfect. I enjoyed reading them, thanks for sharing. Please pass our thanks to your mom for getting you to clean your attic, if you continue with it, we are likely benefit with more such interesting finds.

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If anything the situation for women has deteriorated. It’s sad

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Yes, it is sad. Having said that, I see things improving, there is awareness in the society now - I agree it may not be equal across India, but it is certainly improving. #MeToo and social media (for all its evil) has given voice to the oppressed.

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Mindset remains static.

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Chabbach for the analysis, and thanks for the reminder as all of us wish to Tully-Dilli more than reasonable; thanks for the hit as, still, based on the djinns around, let’s place our hope and action into the “However brief it is” -to quote your then readers- of your and our stays in India; for after all since 1998 (my first visit in my case), brief starts having a good depth

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