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The Indian Navy just sent an all woman crew of 6 officers on an attempt circumnavigate the globe! We are excited for reasons more than one.
“This is not an occasion which can happen once in five years, once in ten years. This is a historic day for India. A historic day, which will be marked in navigation history and globally,” Sitharaman said, after flagging off ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’, the official name of the circumnavigation effort. (source: India Today).
This moment, indeed, cannot be described without using ‘historic’ more than once. An all woman crew of the Indian Navy has left to go around the world! This news, coming sometime after the news of woman being finally allowed to take on battle roles in the army, shows the prospective path of gender equality that the Indian defense establishment seem to have embarked upon. It is good news for the country as a whole to follow this path of enthusiasm and progressiveness.
The defence space has always been exclusively male dominated since the time it came into being as a modern domain. These recent steps seem to have been coming from a liberal set of ideals which are ready to re-negotiate the heavily gendered space of defence. The whole country highly appreciates this new undertaking and we hope for more such decisions to become concrete in the coming day and age. Giving women their due, and women taking their due which has been pending for centuries is everything we long for! Three cheers for the Indian Navy for sending these powerful and bold women to the literal sea of opportunities. It is even more appreciable when we consider that it is only very recently (in relative terms) that women have even been fat of any of the 3 wings of the defence forces.
Are their any other rules and regulations relating to the defence forces which seem outdated to you? Comment below and let’s help further this discourse as enthusiastically as it has begun!
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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