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A good woman has no identity of her own; she is a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife. She is happy to exist only in these relations because what more could she possibly want?
Every man is a good man, he may be a violent unemployed penniless drunkard, but he is a good man because he is a man.
Fate may have created problems for him, but all he needs is a good woman to help him overcome the misfortune of his fate; for that is her destiny and that is her only purpose — to make his life better.
A good woman has no identity of her own; she is a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife. She is happy to exist only in these relations because what more could she possibly want? It is the fulfilment of her existence to serve others.
A good woman is happy making others happy. She has no dreams of her own beyond fulfilling the dreams of others in her life. She is self-sacrificing, she never has an opinion of her own. Likewise, she is happy to be led by those who know better.
She can live with hunger and pain; nay, she revels in pain, for pain is her saviour. It will make her pure and good. She never complains. She takes responsibility for everything that goes wrong.
After all, if it was not written in her fate to see unhappiness, why would her family members be unhappy?
She is a martyr. She will happily face every sorrow if it will make others happy. Her family’s ‘good name’ rests in her hands—in her body, to be precise.
She is the upholder of all religious practices and cultural values and yet as the weaker sex, she can do all this only by following the instructions laid down for her by the men in her life.
She must be the embodiment of every virtue and if she isn’t then she must learn through the pain and suffering that is in her fate.
She is a good woman.
She wants nothing for herself.
She is a good woman, but she is more than a woman.
She is a goddess!
But a goddess is never human! So how can a woman be a good woman?
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Asfiya Rahman, a management graduate, is a teacher by occupation and a writer by inclination. She has published many short stories in different publications and is the author of the sports drama trilogy Wild, Wild 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!
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Being a writer, Nivedita Louis recognises the struggles of a first-time woman writer and helps many articulate their voice with development, content edits as a publisher.
“I usually write during night”, says author Nivedita Louis during our conversation. Chuckling she continues,” It’s easier then to focus solely on writing. Nivedita Louis is a writer, with varied interests and one of the founders of Her Stories, a feminist publishing house, based in Chennai.
In a candid conversation she shared her journey from small-town Tamil Nadu to becoming a history buff, an award-winning author and now a publisher.
Nivedita was born and raised in a small town in Tamil Nadu. It was for schooling that she first arrived in Chennai. Then known as Madras, she recalls being awed by the city. Her love-story with the city, its people and thus began which continues till date. She credits her perseverance and passion to make a difference to her days as a vocational student among the elite sections of Madras.
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