Thursday, August 1, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
NO COUNTRY FOR THE WOMEN
No city or town belongs to a woman like it does to a man. A
woman cannot just spend time in any
setting silently looking into space, or just not doing anything. Merely standing
at a place draws attention, and it takes nothing be called a ‘prostitute’. No woman may sit about or stand
or look into the sunset.
If a woman looks out
smiling, it will be assumed she is
soliciting a customer . no one will give a woman the right to be happy just as
she is. She cannot hum contendly to
herself as she works. When out on a highway driving a long distance , during a
tea break, if she chooses to stand or pace the front
just to restore the blood-circulation in her legs, the men in the teashop
repeatedly tell her to sit down.
Standing --- In a dominant position --- is an unacceptable position for a woman.
Filmmaker Sameera Jain
has shown this attitude of the society in her short film “Mera Apna Desh’
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