Why do we celeberate women's day? I really wonder why ? I believe it is over a hundred years since we celeberated women's day. 101 times we have celeberated ...celeberated what? Does it make a difference to women of this world or humanity at large that such day is earmarded for celeberation? Who should be celeberating, just the women? Who are the women who celeberate it ? The ones in corporate offices , soft ware firms , Banks etc.And what do we do ? Talk about the women achievers and who are the achievers the ones who became a CEO, the first Prime Minister, the IG of Police , a Chief Justice What about the Sharmila languishing in northeast, what about the RTI activist shot dead in her car?
What about the the unsung , unknown hundreds batteling poverty , trying to make ends meet, struggling as domestic help in urban areas, what about the ones that trudge miles to carry water from parched surroundings,what about the little girls married off to old men off shore, what about those pursued and killed because they married outside their caste/ community, what about the ones that fall victim to lust of men in positions of power ? What do they have to celeberate ? Wonder why ... I celeberate women's day... and what am I celeberating...what is accomplished by the celeberation...yet I celeberate year after year.Wonder why....
What about the the unsung , unknown hundreds batteling poverty , trying to make ends meet, struggling as domestic help in urban areas, what about the ones that trudge miles to carry water from parched surroundings,what about the little girls married off to old men off shore, what about those pursued and killed because they married outside their caste/ community, what about the ones that fall victim to lust of men in positions of power ? What do they have to celeberate ? Wonder why ... I celeberate women's day... and what am I celeberating...what is accomplished by the celeberation...yet I celeberate year after year.Wonder why....
