Results of elections to state assemblies in four states are in. In Assam Congress rules again, in Kerala a coalition led by the Congress beat the Communists by a slender margin, in Bengal CPM, the Communist party, which has ruled for over 30 years, was routed by Ms Mamata Banerjee's Trinamul Congress with absolute majority while in Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalitha surprised experts by demolishing that nest of vipers, the DMK. We hope that the 2 ladies will liberate the police in their states and allow them to bring the criminals in the CPM and the DMK to trial and be jailed for very long terms. The results also mean that India is now being ruled by women. We have Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu, Sheila Dixit in Delhi, Mayawati in UP and Sonia Gandhi, who is the most powerful person in the country, because she controls the spineless Congress which runs the central government. Will this change the lot of women in India? Sadly no. Women leaders are as corrupt as men and apart from pious speeches borrowed from western feminists have done nothing to improve living conditions of poor women. If poor people had less children it would instantly improve quality of life of women. Since UP has the highest birthrate one would have expected Ms Mayawati, who prides herself for being a Dalit, to promote small families as a means of social and economic improvement. One would expect her to teach people that women have two X chromosomes and so cannot choose the sex of their children. We still read about mothers being killed for giving birth to girls. Women are their own worst enemies. That is a sad fact.