HAPPY
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!
“Hello? It`s me!” With this song reverberating your ears all the
time, I am sure you know who wrote it, Adele! Taylor swift won the album of the
year at the Grammy’s if I am not wrong. The movie Neerja has left people known
to more than just a story, hopefully Indians now know that there is an award
called as “The Neerja Bhanot Award”
for bravery and self-duty. Ms. Kangana Ranaut, had a striking career in the
past year. No one is unknown to both, Ms. Sania Mirza and Ms. Saina Nehwal and
their remarkable contribution in the field of sports. Ms. Smriti Irani has left
people numb with her astounding speeches. Robin Chaurasiya has been nominated
for The Global Teacher Prize 2016 and is in the top 10 with women from UK, USA,
Australia, Pakistan and other nations. Hilary Clinton is campaigning elections
in America. Priyanka Chopra was at the Oscars this year. Caitlyn Jenner became
Women of the year and you, girl/lady/woman made it to this day. It has not been
easy at all. No man reading this can say that women are not progressing at the
same pace as men. Where as in some sectors, they have surpassed men too.
We all have our struggles
and our stories that none of the others know. Our small family, probably our
neighbours and few friends, that’s all. But there are women dealing with a hell
lot of things that some of us might have not even imagined. While you read
this, there is a woman who is tolerating domestic violence quietly without making
a single noise and still getting up every morning to get back to the daily chores.
There is a woman somewhere in the remotest areas of our country being forced to
abort her child, just because it’s a girl. There is a woman most likely in
Delhi getting raped for she has done nothing wrong but because she wore clothes
that she liked, dark cosmetics and walked the way she wanted to. There is a
girl currently sleeping on the railway platforms of Mumbai in torn clothes and
a baby beside her trying to find happiness in whatever she has earned in the
day. Someone, somewhere being married off at an early age or against her will
or possibly traded under the name of dowry. Someone in Kamathi-pura or any other Red light area, sleeping helplessly with another
man, with no sense of will or integrity, because she needs money to survive in
this world. Some old woman waiting in the old age home since years, dying to
meet her children, hoping they will show up someday to their mother. Also while
all of them, dealing with such humongous issues, there are some struggling with
tiny yet saddening ones, because a girl is compared to the other for their skin
colours differs to certain extent. Someone watching her father smoke and drink
every day and feeling stranded about her education. A girl in most of the
houses of our nation, being asked to sit in a corner while she is going through
her periods, more disturbed especially when the volume of the television is
muted while a Stay-free ad pops up. Someone
feeling utterly shaken because she is simply different than the other girls and
probably doesn’t have a boyfriend, like all the others. Is all of this enough
or you want to read more? I could write with no pain in my fingers and the
stories wouldn’t end. Not like men don’t face problems and find difficulty in tackling
them, but the lived in a patriarchal society since ages and have had enough privileges
to compensate for their losses. It leaves me restless reading that, there was a
time in India when women were being charged breast tax! And were asked to roam
freely without covering their upper bodies so that they would be charged on the
basis of the size. How nerve wreaking this might have been!
I am so proud
of each and every single woman and man who is reading this and is feeling the
same amount of disgust and shame. I am so proud of the woman shouting in the borivali market trying to sell her
product as much as the man beside her. So bravely proud of the woman
confronting a man, anywhere for what wrong he has done! So happy for the woman
who is fighting in a Virar local for
it is her seat and she is right. A woman showcasing her talent her presentation
her skills in all private sectors as much as a man is doing. And there are so
many of you to be proud about, for every tiny, little thing that you have done,
knowing that you are right. I feel sad, that some people misunderstand your
demand for the deserving position and the rights you should have had since
centuries, you need a place, not a place higher than a man, not a place better
than a man, not a place more luxurious than a man, you need a place which is as
EQUAL as a man. You want people to also say that behind every successful woman,
there is man. You want people to also say, that “The way to a woman’s heart is through love.” You want people to
also say, “Congratulations, it’s a baby girl.” This is all you want and I am
not tried or ashamed to ask for this with you. You will get it, soon, I am sorry,
its taking time, but I assure you, you will get it. The world knows that you
have grown better and it’s just been a year, but you haven’t grown safer. But you
will! Just don’t stop, don’t go, Stay, we need you, not because you will take the
species ahead, but because we really need you, to make this happen, to achieve
this goal of ours, to find your happy place, your happy earth. To build a world
that not only carries your existence but also knows to value it. Trust us, the
right ones and we’ll do whatever it takes to change and find your better place,
till then all I can say to half of you is Fight, while the other half is
teaching the society the most important subject called, Women!
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