Women are no better.

A chemistry professor at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Prof Ambikesh Mohapatra was arrested on April 13 for posting a cartoon of Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, Railway Minister, Mukul Roy and former Railway Minister, Dinesh Trivedi on a popular social networking site. TOI, April 14. The cartoon was about how Mr Trivedi was made to disappear as Railway Minister by Ms Banerjee and her chamcha, Mukul Roy. Prof Mohapatra has been booked for outraging the modesty of a woman punishable by 1 year in prison, defamation which carries a maximum of 2 years in prison and hacking which is punishable with 3 years in prison and a fine of Rs 200,000. He was beaten up by 15 Trinamul thugs. Ms Banerjee has banned certain newspapers from state funded libraries because it is her wish. On February 5, a 37 year old mother of two leaving a nightclub on Park Street was gang raped. Ms Banerjee saw that as a " conspiracy to malign her government ". Senior IPS officer, Damayanti Sen, who proved that rape actually occurred, has been transferred from her post as Joint Commissioner of Police ( Crime ) to Deputy Inspector General of Police ( Training ). Effectively a punishment for proving Banerjee wrong. Ms Banerjee defended her decision by saying " it is the prerogative of my government to get the job done by someone who can perform in a better way ". Ms Banerjee's " better way " means not to investigate a rape but to cast false aspersions against the victim's character. Deaths of scores of infants in government hospitals is also a conspiracy against her government. On February 22, two senior CPM members, Pradip Ta and Kamal Gayen were murdered by Trinamul thugs in Burdwan. Ms Banerjee seemed unperturbed. She has been in the news for repeatedly stalling any reform by the union government. She appears to be suffering from paranoid delusions and sociopathic tendencies but her biggest failure is that there has been absolutely no development in Bengal since her election one year ago. People are ashamed of having voted for her and would dearly love to see her back permanently. But she is not alone. Ms Mayawati spent tens of millions of rupees of taxpayer money erecting statues herself. She sent a private plane from Lucknow to Mumbai to fetch her pair of slippers she had forgotten. That pair must now be the world's most expensive pair. Ms Jayalalita had cardboard cutouts of herself all over Tamil Nadu. And we must not forget the darkest hour in our history - Indira Gandhi's emergency from 1975-1977 when she corrupted every institution including the Supreme Court which is yet to recover to this day.Lastly, we must not forget Ms Sonia Gandhi, whose influence is quietly wrecking the economy just to get her son installed as Prime Minister. Men are accused as aggressive, corrupt and greedy. Women are no better. Could even be worse, at least in India.