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Read the story of Reshma and Nida. Two different women, suffering from the same evil: domestic violence. This is their story.
It was another day at the busy beauty parlour. Reshma again sat on the massage table. Nida once again asked, “Ma’am should I do the special massage again?” Reshma nodded, closing her eyes.
Reshma was the wife of the richest man in the town. Every week she would come for a massage, at the same parlour. Nida was the one who did it for her, every time.
Nida would gently rub Reshma’s bruised body. The bruises that came over each night, when her husband thrashed her over food, sex or whatever he felt like. Nida would gently rub and massage those wounds until Reshma felt better. They never spoke to each other.
Suffering was their mutual language.
The only difference was that there was no one to massage Nida’s wounds from her husband, which she hid under her full-sleeved dresses.
Two years passed by.
One day, there was a huge hue and cry when Reshma just disappeared from the town. The beauty parlour also wondered why Nida did not come to work one fine day. They waited for 3 days, post that they appointed a new girl.
Reshma could not be found ever again. After some time, the town moved on to another death, birth and marriage.
Twenty years later when the Internet took over India, a piece of news went viral, how two women fled their homes and built a beauty parlour in a remote town. And from that, they built 50 others across India, which not only employed women who suffered domestic violence but also rehabilitated them. The name of the chain was R & N beauty clinics.
In another small town, few people looked at the pictures of the two women that flickered on their smartphones wondering if they saw them somewhere.
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People say that women are the greatest enemies of women. I vehemently disagree. It is the patriarchal mindset that makes women believe in the wrong ideology.
The entire world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, 2024. It should be a joyful day, but unfortunately, not all women are entitled to this privilege, as violence against women is at its peak. The experience of oppression pushes many women to choose freedom. As far as patriotism is concerned, feminism is not a cup of tea in this society.
What happens when a woman decides to stand up for herself? Does this world easily accept the decisions of women in this society? What inspires them to be free of the clutches of the oppression that women have faced for ages? Most of the time, women do not get the chance to decide for themselves. Their lives are always at the mercy of someone, which can be their parents, siblings, husband, or children.
In some cases, women do not feel the need to make any decisions. They are taught to obey the patriarchal system, which makes them believe that they are right. In my family, I was never taught to make decisions on my own. It was always my parents who bought dresses and all that I needed.
It is shameful that in today's world too, women are abused and even killed for giving birth to a girl, and the infant's life is also of no value.
Trigger Warning: This deals with domestic violence, suicide, and violence against women, and may be triggering to survivors.
I am so glad that the esteemed courts are now giving the much-required verdicts regarding certain ideologies that were not at all entertained earlier. I mean we all have studied this much biology at our school level and it is our duty (our generation) to educate our elders about it.
Why someone have to lose a life to bring such awareness to the society. Delhi High Court gave this judgement concerning a case that filed by the deceased daughter’s parents against her in-laws. She committed suicide as she was harassed and tortured for dowry and giving birth to two daughters.
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