Who’s afraid of Margaret Alva?

At the session entitled Women and Power, where the discussion ranged from Margaret Atwood’s Bad Feminist Op-ed to the negative portrayal of women in Hindi soap operas, Congress leader Margaret Alva shared how once the late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi told her that men in the party were afraid of her and perceived her as anti-male. Alva said she told him that, in politics, it was a very good reputation to have.