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Unfortunate

The article “Young, educated & “modern” but with an ancient outlook” (Jan. 1) reflects how women are still perceived in a patriarchal social order. That even an educated and modern man brought up in a western society can be culturally regressive is unfortunate. Sahar Daftary’s plight shows the levels to which patriarchy is entrenched in the minds of men who believe they have a right to take more than one wife. But no amount of reform can help unless men cooperate. Nothing can be achieved amid those who consider women mere extensions of men, and for whom gender hierarchy is not an issue.

Anuradha Singh,

New Delhi

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