PANJIM: “Telling stories is an incredible way of preserving heritage and passing it on to future generations. Goa is an attractive story of India. I would love the rest of India to be like Goa,” said celebrated novelist and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor while speaking at the Goa Heritage Festival at Campal, here, on Saturday.
In an interactive session with Vivek Menezes, Tharoor said that Goa should resist national trends such as intolerance and spoke about how tolerance is practised in the State.
Speaking about his latest book “Ambedkar: A Life”, he said that Father of the Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was probably India’s first male feminist.
He urged women not to allow themselves to be forced into marriage and to delay their marriages and delay childbirth.
The former deputy secretary general of the United Nations further urged women to stand up to their husbands as equals.
“Ambedkar fought for women workers and labourers, as a legislator, his was a remarkable feminist thinking 80-90 years back,” he said.
