Women

What are women? Are women those special creatures with ineffable beauty as expressed in some songs and poetry? Or those beings that are the core source of love and compassion as uttered by some philosophers? Well, none actually. Being a woman myself, I would describe my specie as just another creation. But yes of course, we are treated very differently. And the hard core truth is that we have to fight hard to attain the normalcy we actually belong to.

In the lime light of the recent crimes happening on women, there were many protests, riots, discussions and such conducted to curb the rising graph, nevertheless to find the real culprits behind this. Have you ever thought, regardless you being a man or woman, who are these real culprits. I would say it is ‘WE’. If we, in our entire lives, have judged a woman on the basis of her gender, then we are responsible; and this is the ultimate truth.

In India, even when the government strongly opposes it, parents demand a boy baby. The first insult slapped on a female, sadly, even before she is born.  After being born, the limitations she is brought into for the reason being a girl, is the next insult that follows. Denying her the right to study, the right to independence and such are a few among the series of insults that trail until the final blow of insult by her parents, the insult of ‘Dowry’.  I would call it the epitome of cruelty when a girl’s parents demand to pay a stranger a ransom for marrying off their own blessing of God. When her parents set the start to the series of abuses, what else is to be expected from the rest of the world! Why this difference? Why are females treated so inferior? Women are as good as men, but yes, in their own fields. They too have the right to live their life at its fullest just as any other man.

But let me also put light into a very narrow matter, which would be the difference between safety and right. No matter how impartial our society grows into, it is for sure to have black sheeps hidden. So, it is absolutely advisable to draw the line beyond which would be unsafe, be it for a woman or a man. Like in a case where there is a riot going on outside your house. It would be sensible to stay back at home and be safe rather than going out calling it to be your right!

So, I believe if we learn to respect an individual, regardless of what they are and such, value their emotion, a difference is made. Look around, note every single person you see, be it the beggar on road or boasting society lady in her imported attire or even the small winning infant on her mothers arm. Is there anyone whose tears wouldn’t matter you if you were a reason to it? If yes, then you don’t respect them. Respect is not proposed to the body or its material gains but it is a salutation given by your soul to another soul. So no matter what they are in this material world, no one has the right to insult a soul, a creation of God, if you believe in one.

Concluding myself, I would say that if we change our selves, may be we can make it a safer India for our daughters.