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I'm not a chauvinist. Neither am I feminist, for that matter. I'm an advocate of egalitarianism. That means I'm going to afford women the same rewards and criticisms that I afford men. With that, here's a list of some women I find extremely annoying.
Brinda Karat
She's the wife of Communist heavyweight Prakash Karat and, frankly, I don't know how she's Communist except by association. In the past, she's been involved in protests against gender bias, against violence and war, she's worked with mill labourers and college students: i.e., she's been anti-imperialist and egalitarian in general. What about any of this makes her Communist (except for the fact that she joined the Communist Party of India during the Vietnam War days)? Maybe her bindi does: that thing could stop the trucks of capitalism in their tracks.
Sagarika Ghose
Perhaps I'm going after her prowess as a TV host, perhaps I'm going after the way she speaks... but I'm definitely going after what is born when those two mix: it feels as if she's waiting for something to explode, like one of those street kids you pass by on your cycle and know a tyre is going to blow up sometime soon. When it comes to certain events, I've noticed that specific groups of people are more indignant than others, but aren't really in a position to consider how they could be wrong. Sagarika Ghose seems like the sort of person willing to engage them in a debate and dignify their cries with a response.
Barkha Dutt
"Do you have candy? Are you sure? Because I think you could have candy. What if it's proved that you had candy but didn't tell me? What if I give you a hypothetical situation that involves exploding candy-bars? Can you prove that an explosion in your vicinity didn't have anything to do with your candy-bars? If you have any candy, I think it would be in the best interests of your home country to tell me now. Candy is very important because I'm talking about it. I'm talking about candy because everyone likes candy and therefore something must be wrong with candy, which puts you in a tight spot. So, here's me asking for one last time... do you have candy?"
J Jayalalithaa
She's an excellent diplomat, she's a very good administrator, and she's much more sensible than all the party members of the DMK combined. Unfortunately, she lacks the sense to understand how much more significant it makes her leadership in a state that only always practices negative voting. Given the chance, JJ indulges in the same tit-for-tat games that the DMK did - only this time, lakhs of crores of rupees aren't involved. Also, It'd be great if she could let go of the reins a little bit and be less of a monopolizer, also because she's quite proud: the more the DMK goes after her, the more she lets herself to be "gone at", the more she tries to secure her rule, the more she upsets what little good the DMK legacy leaves behind.
Arundhati Roy
Many years ago, the French thinker Michael de Montaigne, the Irish thinker George Bernard Shaw, and the American thinker Alexander Hamilton, amongst others, decided it would be good for the people of the world if whatever they wrote was specific, excellent but still very focused and simple. Arundhati Roy had a problem with that, made a fuss about it, cried a lot, and when she decided her eyes would look puffy and teary for ever, she stopped and went after everything that moved. It's a given that any system will have its flaws, and that all flaws will harbour an activist in their wombs, but Ms. Roy will find a small crack, crawl through it and make it explode. After all, she's the Goddess of small things.
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Unfortunately for me, Karat is a Communist, and Communists like the AIADMK, and the AIADMK is steered by JJ - so they share the stage instead of splitting up, inviting increased coverage instead of shared coverage. Unfortunately for me, Ghose and Dutt belong to different TV channels - so they appear on two different channels most probably discussing the same issues at different times instead of sharing the screen within one time slot.
Unfortunately for me, Roy is a litterateur - so she finds the politicians and the media-folk like a ball of dung finds a turbine.
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