Nepal, June 25 -- Indian politics is inherently anti-women. There is no sugar-coating this perturbing reality. While on one hand, India is now celebrating the rise of its woman voter, on the other hand, it simultaneously continues to deny women adequate representation and genuine empowerment in the political milieu, keeping power as almost the sole preserve of men.

One only has to study the nature of the latest development in the soft politics arena-the advent of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-to understand how innately, even if subconsciously, averse we remain to giving women equal opportunities. The CJP, which started as an satire platform, quickly went viral because of its appeal to the youth and the issues it managed to touch upon, ...