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A giant step into the past?

Neil Armstrong’s’ famous lines as he set foot on the moon (that is if you believed that he actually did) on 21st July 1969 were, ‘A small step for mankind, a giant step for mankind!’ Giant step? The newspaper today complains about men hogging the ladies-only LRT coaches in the city. I remember watching Tamil movies where they apparently had public buses only meant for ladies in Chennai after the ladies there had been disturbed continuously, catcalled, groped and touched inappropriately by the highly sex-strung Indian men who could not keep their hands to themselves. Or maybe the ladies were so conceited (they thought that they were such ravaging beauties) that they believed every man on the street was out to get them under! They also had Police Station manned (or rather womaned) by an all-female crew, so that women would not shy away from reporting sexual crimes. The powers that be did not want the female complainant to be sexually disadvantaged and be seen as being sexuall...