Rasika Dugal Quotes
As a society, we need to create an environment that encourages women to make the choices that are available to them and encourages them to speak their mind.
Dugal, Rasika. Interview by Indo-Asian News Service. The Quint, Quintillion Media, 2019.
Women were not, in the decisions of Canadian courts “Persons.” As such they were not allowed to serve as public officials and legislators. In 1929 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reversed previous interpretations and declared women eligible for all public offices. It became known as “The Persons Case.” Murphy then wrote her argument. Murphy wrote serious non-fiction under her own name and novels under the pseudonym Janey Canuck.
Jinnah was a modern Islamist who saw the role of females in a modern context. He, like the Indian Hindu leaders were in a sense products of the West and Western government and education. He would be very surprised that in his Pakistan men can murder their female relatives who they believe have dishonored the family, or that women would not be educated in the Madrassas, or that authorities could sentence a female relative of a man deemed guilty of seduction to be gang raped, but that is what happens in modern Pakistan. Jinnah and many of the early leaders believed that their new government could modernize Islam but the control and influence went the other way. Pakistan became a religiously dominated autocracy rather than the democracy that Jinnah foresaw.
Rasika Dugal is an Indian actress who is known for her roles in several Bollywood movies and web series. Apart from this, she has starred in Indian-German drama film, Qissa and several Indian soap operas.
