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Women women women..
What is it you want?
Why nothing is enough for you?
Why do you always scorn?
Your rights are in place.
You have benefits and legal aid.
Family support is constant
And your career is brilliant!
Then why you are always on the edge?
Holding on to pain and suffrage!
Sometimes searing with rage,
Sometimes brimming with regret.
With a soft smile, the woman sighs!
Her smile barely reaches her eyes.
For she has learned the hard way to live
That her intentions will always be misconceived.
For she knows not how to express
The urge to be loved cared and respected!
Neither with diamonds nor with chocolates.
But with hands held close through pain and distress.
For she knows not how to explain
The pangs of guilt that kill her within.
Be it her meetings or her chores –
Her ‘not being enough’ is a constant scorn.
She tries hard, to put up a strong face,
As she hurries down through a desolate place
During the wee hours, on an empty lane
Wondering if something happens, will people blame her, yet again?
She is tired of trying every time
Making everyone believe her mind.
Not what others expect her to be.
Rather, what she dreams of becoming.
So now she stays silent and upright.
Lost in her thoughts but strong in her mind.
Working her way through the noise,
Growing, falling, and becoming one of her kind!
I believe that words are the most powerful medium of expression that can reach the bottomless pit of our minds, thoughts and emotions. And in doing so, we can create a sisterhood of shared dreams read more...
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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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