Just sit separately

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/05/2015

Apropos the woman journalist from a Marathi TV channel being asked to vacate a front row at a function in Mumbai (see Hoot brief below), the organizers claim they treat men and women equally but had merely "instructed to devise separate seating arrangements for men and women". An embarrassed chief minister who was the chief guest slammed the Swaminarayan temple authorities for discriminating against women journalists. But he didn’t know that they were only following 200-year-old instructions of the founder of their sect regarding women! (TOI)

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