Women in India: Victims? Or Victors? [Part II]

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September, 13th, 2004 - The Indian woman in the eyes of the West has

always been a victim of male pride.

 

During my stay outside India, I have come across so many people who

asks me, "In India women are treated very badly by their husbands,

Why?"

 

I was always dumbstruck with that conception, of people who think

that we are some kind of doormats, which are walked upon everyday.

 

Well, I have a news for them and let me educate them on what a

Indian woman actually IS and CAN BE, if she wants.

 

What else can I say? India is liberal enough to be ruled by woman

prime ministers. Indian men believe in their women so much so that

they let us run their house and even the country.

 

It's not just in these modern times that we are given the

opportunity to be what we want to be -- in ancient times also women

occupied very important positions.

 

Ancient India witnessed the outcome of doing wrong to a woman: The

outside world might consider Draupadi a victim of her five husbands'

gambling nature; but I say she is the mover. She wiped clean the

Kauravas for humilating her. She was a heroic princess of the Hindu

epics, a woman of unbending will. The epic Mahabharata was written

because of an enigmatic woman of substance, Draupadi.

 

The Ramayana is no different. It also teaches us how a woman has the

power to create ripples in calm water. Kaikeyi wanted her son to be

the king, so she played her husband on her delicate fingers and got

what she wanted. Whole clan of Ravana was wiped off just because he

abducted Sita.

 

Then there was Laxmibai, the queen who fought till she died to save

her kingdom.

 

There were also those women who stood by shoulder to shoulder with

their husbands or fiances but are not given headlines. I remember

when I saw movie "Shaheed Bhagat Singh". I cried for his mother and

would-be-wife. Bhagat Singh did what he wanted to do, but the two

women in his life stood by him. They wiped their eyes so that when

he went on his "Last man standing" walk, he remembered their eyes

full of love not tears. What do you call this if not courage?

>From then to now, this journey of the Indian woman is nothing but

magnificent. If a director wants movie to be a hit what he does is

have Madhuri Dixit sing "Ek do teen," or Shamita Shetty move her

legs in "Sharara sharara main hoon ek sharara". You need gorgeous

women to sell products that are not even related to women. This is

what I call movers. At every nook and corner man needs woman to make

him successful.

 

So who says that Indian women are behind? She play different roles

in the stage of life. She walks behind her father when young as a

respect to him, she walks beside her husband as strength to him and

she walks ahead of her children to protect and teach them.

 

It is not coincidence that the word for strenght & power in indian

language is feminine - SHAKTI! STREE [Woman] - Thy name is Power

 

Source: Sify Blogs: "Stree - Thy name is Power: Victims or Movers?"

By Chitra, a blogger who states her objective as follows: "This blog

is named 'Through Eyes of Woman,' as I am one and I believe today's

Indian woman see things differently than Indian woman ten years ago.

Times have changed and we have began to question the changes. "

URL: http://blogs.sify.com/blog_display.php?s=1&blogid=900&pid=2786