An important point that Radhika Balakrishnan raised was the circumstances behind the economic crisis. She points out that many around the world were led to an understand that an economic policy was in place for the last 3 decades, only to be faced with the sad reality that it has not worked.

She illustrates this with the fact that the poor are getting poorer and the rich incredibly richer. Radhika concluded by saying that as “women's movement and as feminists we need to take back the State, its ours and we need to make them do what we want them to do”.