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Poem from a helpless daughter for her equally helpless mother. The destitution of womanhood and its desires.
Dear Mom, I wish I could give you wings to fly So that you could have ruled the blue sky And your pen wouldn’t have heard your goodbye And you could have held your head high
I wish you had enough choices to make And the walls of domesticity wouldn’t have been your cage So that you wouldn’t have to face the society’s rage And you could be free from the kitchen’s bondage
I wish you weren’t so engrossed in being a mother That you lost all your vigour And you could move ahead of satisfying the other So that you could have sailed farther.
I wish the society wasn’t so unfair And you could’ve been your father’s heir So that you could have transcended horizons rare And you could have traversed the paradigm of care
Lastly, I wish patriarchy was dead And you would have had your desires fed And trampling them everyone would dread Where you could have unabashedly dreamt dreamt and dreamt.
From A destitute daughter.
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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.
Menopause is a reality in women's lives, so Indian workplaces need to gear up and address women's menopausal needs.
Picture this: A seasoned executive at the peak of her career suddenly grapples with hot flashes and sleep disturbances during important meetings. She also battles mood swings and cognitive changes, affecting her productivity and confidence. Eventually, she resigns from her job.
Fiction? Not really. The scenario above is a reality many women face as they navigate menopause while meeting their work responsibilities.
Menopause is the time when a woman stops menstruating. This natural condition marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. The transition brings unique physical, emotional, and psychological changes for women.
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