On Women’s Day: To all the Women who Dared.

I am biased to my sex. Biased in the sense that our sex has suffered a great deal, an ordeal more appropriately. Ponder how we are regarded in spoken language; the fairer sex, weaker and helpless. Women to this age have to struggle to voice their opinions. They say we are weak in strength I say what about childbirth, they say I am fit indoors I say what about Rani of Jhansi, they say I am not intelligent enough what about Marie Curie. There can be hundreds of examples in any country that you reside in. Far more important is the point that Women are no less than Man. Ever better I should say because we play the role of a house maker equally efficiently as we would be successful wearing a tie and coat. If the role reversal has to happen will men be able to paint themselves in the tapestry of an established homemaker? Not to be too hard on the men folk I should acknowledge the criticism that some women are indeed incompetent to become a homemaker and some men truly can prove themselves at the task.

Sentences splashed with prejudices and stereotypes have been used to define us. There used to be questions in our minds about such assumptions and surmises, but we kept quiet. Suppressing such questions and exclamations into an inflated balloon, which infected by knowledge and ideas, that would eventually explode. And when it did, it burst with such intensity as which cannot be expressed on pen and paper. It was the explosion of our Voice. Our collective voice which gave us the power to vote, to make decisions, to ban redundant customs, to break society imposed shackles and to protect our integrity.

The road to Freedom and Justice is embedded with thorns and angry bushes, which would stop us at every fork. Giving us an option, every time, to succumb to the road mostly traveled by. It must be our decision to take the road less traveled by. Women of every generation have added their bit to the revolution of Justice. Last year women and men from all walks of life came out on the streets of Delhi to demand for amendments in the rape laws of the country. Our voices forced the government to amend the laws. The Ordinance has been signed by the President and the bill to amend the definition and punishment of Sexual Crimes will be introduced in a month’s time.

This calls for a pat on the back, this calls for a yelp of justice, this calls for the first steps towards Equality. I must acknowledge that this change could not have been possible without the support of the other sex and the life of an innocent girl. Though a lot has to change and I being an eternal optimist believe it will. I remember when I was a child and wanted to be a part of something big. I could never come to a conclusion as to what that big thing would be. After 10 years I think this is the big thing. Changing the ideology of the society, fighting for Women’s rights and making the world a more equal place could be the big thing I would want to contribute my small efforts into.