Subramanian Swamy Quotes
Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.
Swamy, Subramanian. Speech at Sri Venkateswara College. The Hindu, 22 Jan. 2016.
Mount Holyoke College was one of the finest women’s colleges. This line drew applause, although as we look back on it, the statement seems hypocritical. Women at the time could not vote and in some states even own property. They could not serve in the military and were barred from most executive and technical jobs, government as well as private. President McKinley was not a public advocate for women’s rights or equality. He was however, at least in favor of higher education for women—something which many politicians opposed at the time.
Subramanian Swamy is an Indian politician, economist and statistician, who serves as a nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Before joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is known for his Hindu nationalist views. Swamy was a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Between 1994 and 1996, Swamy was Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade under former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. Swamy was a long-time member of the Janata Party, serving as its president until 2013 when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).