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Rise woman, fear not your demons, you are the creator, you are your own savior too, let them have a glimpse of the mighty power within...
Rise woman, fear not your demons, you are the creator, you are your own savior too, let them have a glimpse of the mighty power within…
Here is the fifth winner of our September 2017 Muse of the Month contest, Srijata Saikia.
The cue for this month was from the movie Neerja. When Neerja is a married woman facing domestic violence, she calls up her father, who tells her to believe in herself and never lose hope. That tolerating injustice is as bad as committing it, and that one has to know where to draw a line, when to say, “No more!”
Bruised, but not broken
Maybe a million scars hidden
Eyes that shimmer and gleam
Infinite dreams under the lowered lashes
Calloused hands whose caress
Once cradled like a baby’s tender touch
Chaffed nails that once boasted of midnight’s glamour
Now crushed and lie scattered merging into the shadows….
Rise woman, fear not your demons
You are the creator, you are your own savior too
Let them have a glimpse of the mighty power within
Watch them quiver with the impending doom
Shower not your benevolence neither your love
But make them shiver with fright and let them shout
Beg not for mercy
Neither for your freedom to live
Fight for your own self
Let them hear your voice
Show them not, the cheeks that burned
From the humiliation, not from the hundred slaps
Cover your arms, those ghastly marks
The gifts of forced pleasures
But yes! Show them your spirit
The will to survive
To say “No. Not anymore!”
For you are courage and you are hope
You are the indomitable strength
You are the beginning and also the end,
Yes you are a Woman.
Srijata Saikia wins a Rs 250 Amazon voucher, as well as a chance to be picked one among the top winners at the end of 2017. Congratulations!
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former teacher and presently a home maker by choice. avid reader, occasional baker with a melodramatic penchant for sunsets and the beach! read more...
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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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