80’s Fiction VS. An Ancient Myth

  I recently read 'The Handmaid's Tale', a dystopian past situated circa 1980s America. And I've been mad that I found myself smack in the middle of it. Coming from India, which is retrogressing into the middle ages, and watching the process unfold each day is confusing and infuriating. The two aspects that centrally control how progressive a society is -...