Women do not need sympathy, reservation, or compensation; they need awakening. Victimhood may offer temporary advantage, but it slowly erodes dignity and strength. Education that stops at jobs and numbers fails both men and women. Unless education addresses the inner fear, insecurity, and ignorance that sustain oppression, no policy can truly empower the girl child.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, the meaning of reservation is providing equal opportunities in every sector to those who don't have proper resources or enough resources. So, you also said that you had a batch of three hundred and fifty students and there were only thirteen girls.
In 2020, the government of India decided to have a twenty per cent reservation for girls in IITs. So, why give a reservation to the girls in IIT? I was thinking that they are not capable of cracking JEE or are we just creating a good number in these institutes?
Acharya Prashant: See all these are ad-hoc measures, reservations and all. I think reservation, the very concept, militates against the dignity of the human being, be it in any form, at any place, or for anybody. I would rather empower the person, but instead, I pick up a person who has been disempowered and disabled for various reasons and I put that person in a particular institution without challenging the fundamental reason that caused him or her to feel weak. Then I am not doing much.
So, I take this very idea that women or girls should have more reservation as not very dignified. What we rather need is that girls and women should know who they are. Their energy, their power has to be unlocked and a point has to come where there is no need for this concept of reservation. It's an ad-hoc thing, I said it's a temporary solution. It's not even a solution, it's a temporary treatment that will not cure anything. But just for the temporary duration, it may have some utility. It has to be remembered that it must be temporary, and it has to be remembered that the real solution lies elsewhere.
