Communication in India is seeing a change in its face with the advent of technology. Where earlier people wrote letters to famous people to get in touch with them and wait for months hoping that they get a reply, now with social media, they are quite assured that their message will reach its destination.
Not just film stars and sports celebrities but even politicians have now opted the smart way of getting in touch with people through social media. Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had one such QnA session on Facebook on Monday.
I’m here for the next 30 minutes to take your questions. So ask away. – Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
Posted by Facebook on Sunday, 13 September 2015
The questions that she answered were sometimes a helpful solution, sometimes diplomatic responses and sometimes just exchanged pleasantries:
Here are some of the questions asked and her replies:
Initially, she brought in some humor and exchanged smiles with people across the nation
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But later she gave replies to serious questions as well:
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Among the many questions that she answered her last reply sparked potential controversy on social media. While one side she said that male and female are equal, she blatantly generalized a situation without any statistics to support it by saying “all violence is male generated.”
Twitter quickly woke up and tweets started coming in mocking her reply:
Maneka Gandhi : All #violence is male-generated Me : All males are female-generated !
— किंजल धी एंजेल (@Flw_ur_dreamz) September 14, 2015
Maneka Gandhi says “All violence Male generated”.Ofcourse since she’s decided to turn blind eye to violence/abuse by women whthr laws or o/w — Deepika Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) September 14, 2015
maneka gandhi is the new renuka chowdhary? is hating men is a prerequisite for being union minister for women and children development?
— hemant morparia (@hemantmorparia) September 15, 2015
History witness: All root of Violence due 2 Hate Comments by Maneka Gandhi Type Women @UN @TimesNow @CNN @ibnlive pic.twitter.com/19ks3F3UuK — SwarupSarkar (@swarup1972) September 15, 2015
What are your thoughts on this?