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You who claim to love the mother and the motherland, how dare you seek to chain her?
Let it be clear I am the motherland And you shall not Convert me to the fatherland.
Let it be clear That a mother loves All her children equally.
Let it be clear That when a neighbour’s child falls And bleeds, I shall feed him And comfort him, for this Is a Mother’s creed.
Let it be clear That my sons have sinned Let there not be a Sita Or a Draupadi born again.
Let it be clear That no son of man Shall control a mother, Drape her in shame, Gift her anklets of propriety, Or draw her a Lakshman Rekha.
Let it be clear I shall pray at many altars. Or none.
Let it be clear, I am your motherland, so behave, my sons.
Image is a still from the Hindi movie Lajja
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Dear Women’s Web Community Member,
You may have wondered at our being on the quieter side during the last couple of months. Thank you for your patience, and we wanted to come back to you with a detailed note on what’s been happening at our end of things.
When we first began Women’s Web, as a blog from one woman’s desk along with a few like-minded souls, little could we have imagined the heights that it would soar to. Over the years, Women’s Web has published over 20000 stories (almost all by women), empowered countless women with the ideas, community and resources to chase their dreams, employed hundreds of women in core and project-based roles, and in the process, emerged as the OG women’s community in India. It has also inspired many others to build communities of a similar nature, all enabling women (and other-underrepresented groups) in their own ways.
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