FIONA JOSEPH Vs. STATE OF KERALA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Some voices are perhaps much ahead of our times. This has been so throughout the march of civilization and the evolution of mankind; and it is heartening that one such is impelled in these cases - filed by young ladies, who are independent thinking, with the ambition to make a career for themselves, without being subjected to any kind of patriarchism.

(2.) "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of mind of a girl", said Virginia Woolf, the modernist english writer.

(3.) The petitioners are students studying in the Government Medical Colleges in Ernakulam, Calicut and Trissur; and they decry the alleged attempt of the management of Students Hostels to shackle them within its premises, after a certain time. They assert that they are women of the present century, capable of taking care of themselves, with capacity to make informed choices for their own; and hence without the requirement of being boxed down into the conventional parameters of patriarchal support systems, asserting that such have been thrown to the winds in all civilized countries already.