New Delhi: Women who practice spirituality, eat less, and are married are happier than those who are in live-in relationships are some of the findings of an RSS-backed study released by organization chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday.
RSS-linked Drishti Stree Adhyayan Prabodhan Kendra (DSAPK), better known as DRISHTI, has conducted a large survey on women across India, interviewing 43,255 women above 18 years of age across 465 districts of India, including 70 in border areas. But the overarching theme of the study seems to be the women who practice spirituality and making a comparison between them and the others.
For instance, the study finds that "illiteracy is observed more among Scheduled Tribe women followed by Scheduled Caste and Special Backward Caste". But here comes the catch. The same study reports that the percentage of illiteracy is less "among women from the spiritual field".
That's not all. Anjali Deshpande of DRISHTI cites statistics from this exhaustive study to stress that women from the field of spirituality appear to be better off, as they are happier and more literate. But the only dampener is that merely 6,000 women out of 43,255 women surveyed were into spirituality.
