It has
been days since I've come here. Today being Women’s day I wished to share
something with you.
Women are
often described using the words like flowers, soft, breeze and moon. Not always
but most often. It sounds good. But in today’s society are they handled in the
way they are described? We cannot hide the crying shames like Delhi
In this
day I would love to write about few women who live with exemplary courage in
the society.
Indira Gandhi
, Kiran Bedi, Jhansi
Neeraja
Bhanot – the brave 23 year –old air hostess is the first women in my list.
In
September 1986 this brave women has risked her own life to save the passengers
in a hijacked flight – PAN AM. She was seriously injured by the hijackers’
bullets while shielding 3 children.
Our Government awarded Neerja
with Ashok Chakra posthumously.
An award has
been named after her called the Neeraja Banot
Award and it is given to women who have shown exemplary courage in their personal lives.
One of the Neerja Bhanot award
winner for the year 2000 is Alice Garg from
Jaipur.
She has been engaged in a
constant battle against injustice.I’ve learnt that watching Alice Garg talk is like watching a dormant
volcano swell up with lava. She seems to hide a tempest
behind her calm exterior. One cannot but
help wonder how the frail 61-year-old woman
could have waged a war against well-connected criminals. Alice
Another winner
of the award is Ashamma from Andhra Pradesh.
At 35 years of age, Ashamma has
nothing to share with the world expect tears. She belongs to Karni village in Mehbubnagar district of
Andhra Pradesh, where women belonging to the lower caste are considered objects of entertainment. Ashamma was made to undergo the jogini ritual
when she was seven years old. As per this custom, she was married off to the
village deity.
From the day
she was married to village deity she lost her dignity. All the men who
inhabited that village asked her for sexual favors and as a jogini she was
expected to please them. Her trauma began even when she had not attained
puberty. At the age of 11 when she attained puberty the news spread like a fire
and men hounded her all the more. She was forced to sleep with countless people, some of whom were much older than her. Still in her teens, Ashamma delivered a girl
child. She bore the child from the man she loved, but he did not marry her. Later, she escaped from the village. But all the time she was reminded that she was a jogini and should not act like a pativrata. During those days the Andhra Pradesh
Mahila Samatha Society was running sanghams in villages. These forums voiced the concerns of sexually exploited
women. When Ashamma heard the views of
its leaders, she was impressed. She swore to fight against the baseless custom of jogini. In 1997, Ashamma became the head of the sangham which
operated in Karni. As the leader of the forum, she discouraged the practice of jogini. Her mission revolved around thwarting the attempts of villagers to initiate young girls
into this evil practice. She fought
hard and saved a nine-year-old girl in her village from becoming a jogini. The police had refused to help her and no one in
the village was prepared to cooperate
with her. But Ashamma sat in protest until she succeeded in preventing the initiation ceremony.
As Oprah
Winfrey says
“It doesn’t matter who you
are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you always.”
Gender, custom and locality
are no more served as excuses. Begin the change with you today. Whole world
will be changed accordingly one day.
BE THE CHANGE WHAT YOU WISH TO SEE IN
OTHERS.HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!!
Reference: scribd.com
1 comment:
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