I opened my facebook to realize that it was March 7th
and hence the wall was covered with pictures of smiling girls with gifts in
hand, being pampered by husbands and other significant men in their lives. The men’s
statuses read “Gifting her a spa coupon..” or “She is my queen..”. It felt good
to see so much love in the horizon although in a virtual world. So today was
our day, as mentioned on the social networking sites.
I called my mother in India late at night (my time in USA)
only to find the bell ringing without an answer. After an hour, she called me
back detailing that how occupied she was with the maid not coming to work
because she had suffered some burn injuries while cooking. It did not take me a
moment to understand what these accidental injuries were and what perhaps would
have caused them. The ironic nature of our conversation was that I and my
mother were discussing a recently released Bollywood movie ‘Queen’ wherein the protagonist finds her true self after undertaking
a journey in a foreign land. The movie was wonderful with flawless acting and
nuanced direction. However, the girl in the movie was only able to find her
confidence after being dejected by a boy. Thinking about it, I realized that
this is what happens to most of us, isn’t it? We start taking our careers more
serious, taking our health more seriously and working towards building a
stronger self-confidence after an eye opening experience where the main lead is
undoubtedly a male.
By this article, I do not mean to condemn the male society (let’s
just call it that for fun ;)) in any ways. My aim is to foster the feeling that women are
important for a society and not merely objects of affections on women’s and
mother’s day OR objects of sympathy for a failure encountered in their lives. And
no one else, can build this idea of self-sustainability other than we ourselves.
So my dear beautiful mates - Why not celebrate the next women’s day by taking a
fellow women to shopping or spend some time a girlfriend over coffee or all the
more better help some girl in need – like donate some clothes to the next door
women rehabilitation society.
“It’s equality that
matters to us and not reservation”
