Khaled Ahmed was born in 1943 in Jallandhar during the siege of Stalingrad. He has been an opinion writer based in Pakistan for the past 40 years. Over his decades of experience, he has worked for <em>The Pakistan Times, The Nation, The Frontier Post, The Friday Times and The Daily Times, three of which have been closed down either permanently or temporarily. He is now consulting editor at Newsweek Pakistan, based in Lahore.</em> Ahmed graduated from Government College Lahore during the 1965 war with India with an MA (Honours) on the roll of honour, along with a diploma in German from Punjab University. In 1970, he received a diploma in Russian (Interpretation) from Moscow State University. In 2006, he wrote the book, Sectarian War: Sunni-Shia Conflict in Pakistan at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC.
The Women who ruled: In patriarchal South Asia, women leaders have to act tough or risk being toppled
Why do women rulers act tough? Suvorova has this diagnosis: “The male majority considered women to be inherently apolitical, passive, easily swayed, eager for compromise, incompetent, subject to the influence of their male entourage, and in a word, marionettes controlled by puppeteers present among advisors in the party hierarchy or cabinet.”
Anna A Suvorova has written an extraordinary book, Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia (OUP 2019), affording us a closer look at the women who served as prime ministers in our region. In each case, she opens the door to a realistic analysis of what caused the patriarchal societies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to accept them as leaders, even to invest them with charisma. There is the invariable factor of violence and suffering as “daughters and mothers” playing their role on top of the political order of their states.
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