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Valentine's Day is around the corner. With 'Love' as your muse, get featured on our readers' writing space this month!
Valentine’s Day is around the corner. With ‘Love’ as your muse, get featured on our readers’ writing space this month!
February being Cupid’s month, we’ve picked an interesting theme for this month’s As You Write It. From building the Taj Mahal to giving up the throne, people have done various things in the name of love. But we are curious to know, what would you NOT do?
With that in mind, send us your write-up on “I would do anything for love…but I won’t do THAT!” (and of course, you don’t need to take us literally – feel free to take the topic as a starting point and let your imagination run wild).
Where to send: Send in your story to [email protected] with ‘Love Story’ in the subject line, and your story as a word/txt attachment. Do include the name we should use if we publish it, and a brief introduction to yourself (2-3 lines) in the mail.
By when: Please send in your stories by Feb 12th, i.e. this Sunday. The 5 best stories will be published on Women’s Web the following week, i.e. Feb 13th onwards.
Rules:
– The material should be previously unpublished elsewhere. (Copyright stays with you and you’re free to subsequently publish it elsewhere).
– Keep it between 250 and 600 words.
GOODIES!
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Every published writer on this theme gets a Rs.300 gift voucher from Zaarga.
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Most young men will benefit from reading Concrete Rose by the iconic Angie Thomas, the prequel to the extraordinary The Hate U Give.
Angie Thomas is probably the most powerful voice of her generation, and with Concrete Rose, the prequel to The Hate U Give (THUG), she has yet again set standards which even she will struggle to beat. This is the story of Maverick Carter– of what made him the man we came to love and admire in THUG.
One afternoon, he is a seventeen year old, slinging dope, playing basketball and buying gifts for his girlfriend. A few hours later, a DNA test comes out positive and he realises that he had impregnated his best friend’s girlfriend during a one night stand when his condom slipped. The mother of the child disappears and he is stuck with a three month old baby he had no idea was his. His mother insists that he ‘man up’ and shoulder his responsibilities. He learns to change diapers and burp the baby. He moves out his music collection to make place for the crib, and sells his recorder to buy essentials for the baby. He even gives up slinging dope and takes up a minimum wage job. His girlfriend breaks up with him, the baby keeps him awake at night, he is exhausted working in the grocery store and school becomes the one place where he can catch up on his sleep.
Normally a teen pregnancy turns the mother’s life upside down, but here it is the father who bears the brunt of it (though he had no say in whether or not the pregnancy should be continued). Though he had never been particularly ambitious, Maverick sees even the few dreams he had disappear. He sees no escape from a dreary future where he will be bagging groceries all his life. Angie Thomas does a remarkable job of getting into the psyche of the teenage father, and talking about how much damage the ‘men don’t cry’ myth does to young black men.
Fundamental Rights are but basic human rights that allow a person to live with dignity. Depriving basic rights of one particular gender based on whatsoever reason can never be justified.
Every year we celebrate women’s day with great enthusiasm and fervour. On one side, with each passing year, a new theme is introduced to kick start this day and on other side we also face equally devastating issues affecting girls and women alike. When we look at the future from a broader perspective, it is apparent that the root level issues still continue to remain unanswered. And like it is said – no house can stand still for years without a strong foundation; no progressive approach is possible unless the issues at the ground level are acknowledged and addressed in the right manner.
According to UN Sustainable Development Goals, any issue pertaining to women is considered as a challenging one. And it is on account of this that an entire goal- SDG 5 is dedicated to Gender Equality, with the aim to end any sort of discrimination against women and girls by the end of 2030. The question is whether we have made a move towards that direction yet?
Well, while a select set of society is moving forward with progressive thoughts, the other set is still struggling to achieve basic human rights. The goal to achieve those rights may appear as a bigger task to conquer but it is definitely not an impossible one. What is required is that first, we need to start addressing the issue. And here “We” starts with us!
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