I got a mail about the greatness of the woman....I smiled to myself and spent a day gloating in the glory of my gender.
Sipping coffee in the evening at the campus adda, I saw a woman running through the streets with two crying children in tow, searching for her husband who had just bought himself alcohol induced relief from poverty with the days earnings. Her hands were moving fast - joining together one moment to plead with him to come home, moving as far apart as possible the next moment to hold her children close to her.....
I gulped my coffee in one go - a toast to the greatness of the woman in her and in thousands like her in unknown, unnamed streets of India.
3 comments:
lovely post neelam.. it brought tears to my eyes. its so true, your description.. and the irony of it. women in india have a LONG way to go. all this media hype about indian women being liberated etc is crap. Just take a walk on the road to see how most of the country still reacts to women.
as gandhi once said,"A society is judged by how it treats its women." and India sucks in this department.
anyway.. keep writing.. u one of those born writers.
@armeen : so true..the liberation applies to maybe just 10% of indian women..n that too very superficially...
its still a man's world out there..
anyways thanks a bunch for the boost...hope to be more regular with the posts
@armeen : so true..the liberation applies to maybe just 10% of indian women..n that too very superficially...
its still a man's world out there..
anyways thanks a bunch for the boost...hope to be more regular with the posts
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