What do Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have in common, something not even the world's largest superpower, the United States can compete with? Well let me call on some women you may know to try and help answer that question, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, and Sheikh Hasina Wajed. I think you know where I'm going with this. Yes, they've all held that coveted top job as female commander-in-chief for their respective countries, something which has only been achieved on make belief but popular American dramas. We could sit for hours trying to analyse the reasons for this and yet never really come up with anything concrete. But what is certain is this; at the end of this very colourful and unpredictable presidential campaign, the political landscape in the US will never be the same. This is as the world prepares to welcome the first ever black President or the first female vice of the world's most powerful country. And who decides? Well the good old American public of course.

Tulika Pandey