A Gentle Laugh and a Sad Smile
Today I was filling up my forms for all the “dreaded exams” in India, which ensure your career and interestingly found that in most of them, the application fees was either exempted or reduced. Not only that, I found that people were divided into two categories- the male and the female and the males were further subdivided into SC, ST, OBC, and of course the “General”, but women, oops, I mean the girls, they were not subdivided. They stood united. The saying women will always be women came to my eyes in a different light, in a subdued murmur I heard myself say, “the weaklings of world”, that’s what the world seems to think of us. I was confused whether to laugh or cry, to be happy or sad. At one front, I felt happy that women were not divided on the basis of caste, creed or class or colour and the further likes of it, they constituted the undivided single class. On the other hand I was forced to think: were we so weak, so unwanted, that the government had to feign to promote us,...