woman and power

8th march given to women as their International day, keeping rest 364 days with themselves by the men in this men dominating world. Women , the mother, the sister, a daughter and in all other roles she plays was ever powerful since the beginning of mankind. Rather i should say the society would had been a non entity without a woman. I have always kept a woman in high esteem, may it be my mother , my wife, my sister or my daughter. Indian rajya sabha has passed a bill today for giving reservation to women in politics and therby making women more powerful. In my view its a very good move of Indian Government.
Social evils made the life of women miserable but wherever the women excercised herself knowing her power she was powerful always today or in the past. Rani of Jhansi, Annie Basant, sarojini naidu, Mother Teressa, Margret Thatcher and todays Mayawati are a few examples to quote. Women today has reached the moon and working in all spheres of life efficiently.
When i was a kid i heard my granny uttering" Mal Mal ke nahaiye te Aurat janam kadi na paiye".I asked why she was saying so inspite of being a female herself. Wat she elaborated me was sufficient for me to feel the strength of the woman and her sacrifices. She explained that a woman is brought up since her birth with a view that she is a "praya dhan" and she was not given the liberties equal to male so that she can be protacted from anything untoward which my cause problem in her marriage. Facing so many restrictions, she grows up and on one fine day she is married to a stranger who comes and window dress the things, somtimes, to woo her parents alongwith desiring a dowery to take away their daughter from them. Now comes a crowd of stranger in front of her to fine tune with everybody and face the consequances in case she fails to deal with any one of them. She has to accomodate her hubby , may be good or bad, on bed or otherwise besides taking care of all the responsibilities at home towards everybody. Then she brings into life the new lives with nurturing them with her blood and milk. The roles in her life keeps on changing very drastically and she has to make herself so elastic to fit in every role because any failure in any role would harm her belongings.
Nature too has given the woman more tolrance and even more strength to face odds.She is happier when her beloved r happy and feels more pain for any pain to them. In different religions she has different rights but the behaviour of men towards them remains the same.Mostly everywhere a man like to have the closeness of everyother female without any steadfastness towards a single female whereas she remains sincere to her love.
Imagine the social rituals like going by female to the house of male after marriage is reversed, will everything remain the same for female. i feel no it will not. It will make an amusing situation for men because they wont be able to scold her in front of his inlaws. Now she will feel herself at home and it will give her strength in front of her blood relations. will it ever be allowed to happen in this society of men. i know it can never be a reality because it is anti-male.
western societies has already given sufficient rights and privilleges to female and in Indian i am happy that the steps like right to property and other legal rights being given to women will make her more powerful. That day, everybody will be happy, when there is no scream of woment due to dowery death, eve teasing or ill behaviour of the "crowd of strangers".
sandeep