Jacques wrote:
[quote]Jacques wrote:
[quote]22 July 2007

AFTER 60 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, INDIA CHOOSES A WOMAN AS PRESIDENT

For the 60th annyversary of its independence, India has chosen a women as a president, Mrs Pratibha Patil.

This event has been largely praised. Certainly it is a good news in a country where the women condition is generaly so bad.

But we have to to revitalize the importance of that event because in India the president has just a ceremonial power. As in almost this ex British colonies, the power belong to the Prime Minister, and this happended in India on 24 January 1966 when Indira Gandhi, the daugther of Nerhu (the first Prime minister after independence) was elected PM.

And today, the more powerfull women in India is her daughter in law, sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress Party who rules the country.