She was in her womb, ready to sip
She should have been happier, on the contrary, and should have been
ready to welcome her first child in this world. But no, she was scared. She had
actually fooled her better half and her in-laws all these nine months by making
stories of a baby boy. She did not go for a foetus' sex check-up for two reasons,
first, it is illegal in India, for obvious reasons, and second, she always
wanted this to be a surprise for herself.
In this world, if you are a woman, you have to be equal to God. If you
are not, you cannot survive.
For her also, as soon as the day came, she was almost dead, not because
of the birth pain, but because of the gender of her baby. In the OT, as soon as
her baby cried, the doctor asked her to guess whether it was a girl or a boy,
and her situation of not being able to save the baby if someone hears it’s a
girl, made her say it’s a boy.
Ah! Such pain.
She was overwhelmed when she knew it was a girl, as that’s what she
wanted. The joy and happiness, was followed by a long and lonely path. It was
then that she knew that her struggle has just begun.
She had to be more than a mother and more than a woman. She had to
protect this little angel from being dead and had to keep herself safe all the
way just to ensure her girl’s safety.
Her good news became their bad news and the worse started happening. The
birth of the girl child made everyone devoid of happiness and she became the
main culprit.
India is known to be a country of values and ethics. But the reason, it
is illegal to check the sex of the foetus
As a matter of fact, the families who do not want a girl to be born in
their “Khandan”, have the mother of the house as the leader, a woman.
Her partner is her daughter, a woman again. They want a beautiful and “Susheel
Bahu” but they do not want a girl to be born in their families. And the men who support these, for them it's just one question that I want to ask.
मां चाहिये
बहन चाहिये
पत्नी चाहिये
फिर बेटी क्यों नहीं चाहिये?
At times, when I sit and recall this story, I fail to understand the mind-set
of these illiterate people. Had the ancestors of these families followed the
same process, all the women had been long gone, so how on earth, would that
family have a ”Vansh
The world has developed a lot in all these years due to Globalization.
But I think, the word Globalization should be changed and renamed to
Partly-Urbanization because most part of the world still need to purify their thought.
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