Empowering women is not removing them from homes and make them job seekers. Empowering women is to allow them to take their own decisions under the loving, able and wise guidance of parents, near and dear and teachers. Empowering women is not making them blindly follow the dictates of "modern" intellectuals in the form of anti-traditionalists, atheists, family-less wayward NGOs and the like self-appointed and self-promoted "social reformers".

Even men, who have been enjoying freedom all these centuries, need counseling in these days of anarchy, and rule of criminal-dominated, competitive, money- minded ruthless materialists and businessmen. Empowerment is individualistic. Individuals know their selves.

If they want they follow tradition they will follow. Others have no business to object for this. If they are attracted to the apparent freedom provided by modernity they will follow that path. Let us allow them to choose their way. Not prevent them.

Finally it is they who have to live their choice and face the consequences. Let not intellectuals decide for girls or boys what path they should take. Parents, well-wishers and other concerned people must have a say on the life and its course of their children.