Towards Equality

I thank my younger friends in Punarnaba and the Centre for Marxian Studies for their invitation to deliver the Vina Mazumdar Memorial Lecture quite soon after we lost her earlier this year. It is both an honour and a responsibility, for Professor Vina Mazumdar was an intrepid fighter for equality and social justice, and the fountainhead of Women’s Studies in India. I have to warn you that what I have to say is not a finished disquisition, but my somewhat disorganised cogitations on the subject. I may be forgiven for the rough edges in my presentation.