Bikash
Choudhury
Even today in some
parts of our country educated and professional women are murdered by their own
parents for their choice of life partner; we have seen what happened to the
lady doctor on the street of Hyderabad; and, the perpetrators of ‘Nirbhaya’
still living and countless ‘Nirbhayas’ happen each day and even in each hour.
In contrast we see college going girls, university students and young
professionals smoking cigarettes and spewing toxic fumes on our faces and they
even visit pubs with their male classmates or colleagues to get ‘sozzled’ a
little on the rocks. If boys have the gall to snuff out human lives at the call
of testrones—can’t the girls have the liberty to get drunk a little at the call
of free spirits? No, that is not the issue. May be a deeper social revolution
is quietly taking shape to explode on the faces of “we the men folks” of our
country sooner than later.
Earlier lower casts and dalits could not dare to cross a
higher cast people raising their heads on a village street. One fine day
Behenji Mayabati’s mentor emerged from the shadows of trade union activities
and cycled around the country to organize the dalits, scheduled casts and down
trodden to convert them into a vote bank to capture political power in order to
make a difference in the lives of its stake holders with brutal power play and
some policy intervention which is irreversible now.
Can our top leaders among women from all walks of life get
together to follow in the foot steps of late Kansi Ram? There are provocations
before and there will be ample number of cruel and brutal incidents continue to
happen with Indian women; but, their collective and studied response has been
silence while swallowing their pride of being wooed as goddess Laxmi, Saraswati
and Durga by men. It is about time they make up their minds about their status
and what to do with the deeply ingrained “patriarchy” in our society. At the
least the top leaders of the women wing of each political party in the country
need to think if they were better off in the mainstream political parties or
will it be better to have a single all women political party that garner nearly
50% votes and no Governments in the States or at the Center is possible or
feasible without their blessings. A thought on these lines could send all
political parties into a shivering. The “hullabaloos” about CAA ,
NPR and NRC would be a think of the past and quietly buried. And, a new
Economic and Governance model would emerge from the ashes of mainstream
politics--- and girl power would return to rule the street on their looks,
their attire, their body language and of course with their free spirits---
humming silently; we actually need 1/2 you can’t console us with just 1/3.
[Author’s Bio:
Freelance writer on Socio, Economic & Political issues and events; he also
writes on art & culture apart from being a passionate activist. Contact:
streben.market@gmail.com]
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