Girls....
I dont know what to think. I dont know what to do and definetely dont know what to write. Felit like blogging today and thought I would just pen down some random thoughts.
This week is a mix of emotions. While one side saw me happy to meet my friends I had not met from a long time, but there was also a sadness mixed with it because someone I care about isnt happy.
It ironical how girls of today say they are independent, study so much, strive so hard to be someone ambitious, to do something for the society, to balance two worlds and yet when it comes to it, how different are we actually from the girls in the world before? We have the same feelings, the same sense of dependency on a few people, the same kind of life that they lead twenty years back. At the end of the day a girl is stil bought into this world(if she is allowed to live) to be married ahd raise a family.
Is that really fair to a girls dreams? If it is a boy he is bought up to study, to care for his parents, to live his dreams. And if it is a girl? Why is there so much difference on the basis on just one chromosome? The constitution is women oriented, has laws to protect us from everyone, but who will protect us from their mindset, from our own shackles, from our own helplessness and from our own weakness as not wanting to do anything about it?
This week is a mix of emotions. While one side saw me happy to meet my friends I had not met from a long time, but there was also a sadness mixed with it because someone I care about isnt happy.
It ironical how girls of today say they are independent, study so much, strive so hard to be someone ambitious, to do something for the society, to balance two worlds and yet when it comes to it, how different are we actually from the girls in the world before? We have the same feelings, the same sense of dependency on a few people, the same kind of life that they lead twenty years back. At the end of the day a girl is stil bought into this world(if she is allowed to live) to be married ahd raise a family.
Is that really fair to a girls dreams? If it is a boy he is bought up to study, to care for his parents, to live his dreams. And if it is a girl? Why is there so much difference on the basis on just one chromosome? The constitution is women oriented, has laws to protect us from everyone, but who will protect us from their mindset, from our own shackles, from our own helplessness and from our own weakness as not wanting to do anything about it?
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In Urban India, where women do have a right to strive for achievement, I don't think they are barricaded, at least not the mahority of women. Now if you argue about the poor and backward part of India where the women is but a sex-toy and a slave to egotistic men, I would agree, but they are women who are broken from the beginning itself.
...and the real culprits? Their mothers. You have read 'Pride and Prejudice', and you know how a mother tries to stop all free thought and will of her daughter(s), and sees the only future for any of them is marriage and sacrifice to their home.
Now to compare... maybe women in western europe have developed and come out of this age, but Indian women will take a while.
But you argument wasn't about women like these, it was about Urban women who have a right to think and a right to study hard, and have a right to 'strive so hard to be somone ambitious' (wrong english by the way, why would you strive to be ambitious?)
Women now are given liberty as much as the men. They are free people now, and are respected for it, atleast it is so in Urban India. I have not met any woman yet, who is barricaded to marriage and slavery after her education, yet. Maybe a few exist, but that part of our lives is becoming history, as women are starting to, realize their potential in this new world, and also to understand their freedom.
One mistake I see in Barkha Dutt is that she takes reporting personally. She takes a stand and then belittles all people who are against it. That is the worst possible way of reporting. As a reporter of the news, you must never make it personal. The main job of a reporter is to report, not put their point across.
The Op-Ed's put their points across, but even then they don't openly state it, they support it trhough facts and evidence, and make sure we reach the same conclusion they have. I suggest you read the New York Times online some times, their articles are marvellous.
Other than that, I think that is you sharpen the edges you can become a great reporter. And don't take things to heart. All of us have our good days and bad days, don't let their probelms rub off on to you. Don't let it ruin your nice days.
I was talking about people I see around me, not about me. But my friends....my classmates. Honestly Bhairav do you think just because you are born in the city you are any better then the women born in the village? Is that why female foeticide is more dominant in the cities? Yes the mothers are culprits, but thats because the society has made them that way. Do you think that men would really accept it if their peers(female) tried to walk with them? A man still wants a woman at home. to take care of their children more then they are wanted at the office.