"A Woman's Wheel Of Life"

I was fascinated by the book "A Woman's Wheel Of Life" which I read recently.It contains excerpts from the conversations that the author had with 20 eminent women of India.While reading,I came across some very perplexing and rare observations on the mental structure of contemprory women.In the chapter which deals with the life and views of Advt.Jethmalani's divorced daughter,she asks,"Why is it that most successful women are alone?Is it because they are too independant or is it because they simply intimidate men?".I found this very sensible and my mind started to look into and seek answers for this question from that very moment.
It was in this backdrop that I happened to watch a Malayalam movie "Paleeri Maanikyam".The reason I went to watch it was because the movie is supposed to discuss the insecurity the a woman faces in the Indian rural society.Initially,I was quite surprised to see a flow of people appear to watch a "supposed to be academic" movie.But as the film progressed,I witnessed what I felt was a movie which tends to commodify the feminine body and sell the agonised life of a rape victim.I watched the male minds in the playhouse turn into a perverted lot smiling with lust in their eyes and waiting to see more.The experience was more than bearable for me.My mind started reading the question posed by Ms.Jethmalani and my experience in the theatre side by side.
The condition of a woman is always the same at every era of time.She lives the same innner life- subject to the domination and possession of man.If at all she tries to exhibit her ideologies or tries to create her own creative space,she is either ostracized or killed and maybe thats why women of substance are often all alone.