MUNMUN GHOSH,
homemaker, musician, writer in her mid-40s:
Would women make better politicians, chief ministers, prime ministers? I don’t think about it like that. I don’t see gender here at all, it’s a question of who that person is, man or woman? A woman can be as competent or incompetent, good or as bad as a man…now I thought Sushma Swaraj was a very good politician, but Mamata Banaarjee’s destroyed West Bengal! See, women can be demonic too or angelic. So many worshipped Jayalalitha and we heard about her corruption, so how do we judge? I can’t judge at all. Let me say women have as much potential as men to be good or bad leaders, it’s not a gender issue, full stop. Also women tend to go into politics much later, although all that is changing nowadays, that’s all I have to say.