March 08,2015; the International Women's Day is celebrated all over the world. This day, the dawn breaks with the existence of women being celebrated on a grand scale. The mother living in every daughter and the daughter living in every mother is cherished. The augmenting achievements of women in all walks of life is made known and all the great women of the past are paid homage. The day on a whole is a day of acknowledgement of the greatness of being a woman. By the time the dusk sets in all the women of the nation end their day with pride in their hearts and happiness in their eyes.
The sadder part is that approximately 800 women would not wake up out of this deep slumber. They are expected to reach the abode of the lord due to preventable diseases. The victims include children both born and unborn. The most obvious yet oblivious diseases of gender discrimination and sex selective abortions play the main role in these deaths. These deaths happen everyday and so they have no place in our sensation desiring world. Hence, instead of concentrating on those quite possible yet un-preventable deaths, let's take a look at the achievements made by our women in the past few years.
The sadder part is that approximately 800 women would not wake up out of this deep slumber. They are expected to reach the abode of the lord due to preventable diseases. The victims include children both born and unborn. The most obvious yet oblivious diseases of gender discrimination and sex selective abortions play the main role in these deaths. These deaths happen everyday and so they have no place in our sensation desiring world. Hence, instead of concentrating on those quite possible yet un-preventable deaths, let's take a look at the achievements made by our women in the past few years.
While terrorists and politicians were trying to divide the nation, the women of India were busy uniting the same. Nirbhaya, united the people to an extent that even the police cannons and lathi force could not distort their form. Inspired by this act of the citizens, a number of women were given a chance to walk in the footsteps of Nirbhaya. The Badaun cousins, the Shakthi mills, photojournalist were the next lucky women of India who were given this noble opportunity to unite the nation. The judiciary system and the Government of India found these acts worth encouraging and further loosened their grip on the criminals so that the concept of Unity in Diversity could be best celebrated throughout the nation.
The youngest woman to receive the candle light honor by the nation was six year old. Can anyone imagine that a six year old girl could contribute so much to the nation? Decades of arguments in the parliament have not been successful in providing the women their special status, where as for deeds like entertaining the men or falling prey to their misdeeds, it only takes them a birth as a woman. Indian women have hundred and one percent reservation in this sphere.
Some wise and technologically advanced parents have decided to save the girl child from this disaster by silencing her much before she gets silenced by a beast. The number of these new-generation parents has increased to such an extent that in the past twenty years approximately one million fetus were killed in the womb just because they were girls.
Ours is a country of values and traditions. Here, fathers love their daughters, sons love their mothers, brothers love their sisters and husbands love their wives. Still one out of two girls in India suffer from malnutrition and every sixth girl here complains of sexual abuse. Every single man in this country is ever ready to sacrifice his life to save the women but at the end of the day women get killed for not living up to the standards of the society.
Ours is a country of values and traditions. Here, fathers love their daughters, sons love their mothers, brothers love their sisters and husbands love their wives. Still one out of two girls in India suffer from malnutrition and every sixth girl here complains of sexual abuse. Every single man in this country is ever ready to sacrifice his life to save the women but at the end of the day women get killed for not living up to the standards of the society.
Killing a person is a crime while honor-killing is a virtue. Choking a criminal to death is discussed for years whereas choking a fetus in the womb gets least noticed. This international women's day, instead of waiting for one more woman to sacrifice her life to unite us, let's take a step forward to shield their smiles from vanishing behind unanswerable sobs.
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