Perhaps the word evokes more questions than answers. Moreso for a woman?
Or so i have been sensitised. By what i see, what i hear and what i have been channelised to think. It is rather natural, to associate liberation with women, with countries, women in the countries. So what precisely would mean liberation for a country, empowering its women or if i could just change a little and question, what is liberation for a woman? A country, her country that will recognise her, respect her, give her the freedom she deserves, liberate her from restrictions, let her be............
Oh yes, it is,
a dreaded female foetus,
a shame.
She shall not be blessed,
with education, books or
anything,
symbolic of knowledge.
Cause it is not right.
It is not customary.
It is not practised.
Her smile -covered,
tears dried in seclusion
happiness, least priority.
But she can satisfy,
a man.
His needs, his wants,
his whims, fancies.
At his mercy, at his call.
She is there.
Men rule the world,
for,
their power,justified.
It is right.
And it is customary.
No one can question,
birth rights of gender.
The prejudice in one,
the pride in another.
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From what I see or hear or live around....... woman... are not living lives as u describe....
i think She is recognised and respected.... Her Smile rules the world.... Your thought seems to come out of a more personal experience... or something.... i think.....
your sarcasm has a harsh intonation,almost as if ironical.but the plight of the girl child is well potrayed.i hope you realise that the situation has improved considerably.
it is really sad that we urban dwellers fail to associate with such situations. this is what happens in 90% of india. maybe it has improved but the attitude has to undergo a metamorphosis..
i must say that this is a really nice, hard-hitting piece. Seems like its truly from your heart. Gut-wrenching. And i completely disagree with the other two comments. The situation HAS NOT improved. We sitting in our upper class homes think that the 1% of the world that centres around us is the entire universe! Pls look at the real India - the villages, the little towns. People still kill female foetuses, stifle new born babies to death, burn women for dowry, practice child marriage... And here we are sitting in the comforts of our house and saying the situation is better! by what standards??! its like that hindi poem i read in school - a bird still within its eggshell and thinking "bas itna sa hi hai sansaar!"
i guess, the scale of improvement varies with what you compare, if you compare with the past of our country, i guess it has but not dramatically if you compare with other hard line religious countries it a bit better here, but if you compare with developed world the improvements hardly show! but what it improvement? a girl child in middle class does get education now, but does she get to make her own decision? there are many such questions with negative answers
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