A Doll’s House is not any technique to guarantee ladies’s security
It’s regressive, repressing, reprehensible. Also like ‘Headache? Cut off the head!’ The rape-murder of a younger Kolkata physician has shaken the nation. But two of West Bengal’s 17-point ‘solutions’ additionally outrage a girl’s dignity. Nari Dibos Udjapon Mancha was among the many first to sentence the arcane suggestion to ‘spare’ ladies from evening shifts and corral them in ‘safe spaces’. It’s in clear violation of our elementary – but hard-to-wrest – proper to work anyplace, at any time. Momota-di, do you cry ‘Oorhi baba! Ondhokar hoye ashchhe’ and scurry again to your bari? Do you timidly keep out of imply streets? Ki ashchorjyo! We thought all-night dharnas in inflammable terrain was your trade-mark?
Next they’ll say ‘fair sex’ is simply too delicate to face the sight of blood and pus, so simply preserve them in ‘safe’ backroom billing division. No, no, not backroom: some sweeper or senior physician may pounce upon them there. Why fear solely about nights? What about broad daylight experiences of school-kids molested in bogs and buses? Should we then preserve lady youngsters at dwelling? Oh-ho, no once more. More predators are in there than on the market.
These anachronistic ‘safeguards’ are absurd. Has nobody observed that ladies have lengthy been holding up ‘half the sky’ in robust 24×7 drugs – and media. Also now in international tech which wakes up on the bedtime of these ‘fuddy-daddies’ who presume to make guidelines ‘for our own good’. Provide safety and sensitisation, you morons, not shackles.
False hope. Patriarchy/lakshman rekha is our cultural DNA. Not many aam-auratein can create Virginia Woolf’s digital ‘room’ (Ismat Chughtai’s ‘charpai’) ‘of her own’. Unlike Dora’s ‘A Doll’s House’, the cage isn’t even gilded. ‘Protection’ is merely the excuse for brutal domination. ‘Beti padhao’ is nowhere close to its appended goal. For me, Maharashtra’s ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ dredges up pictures of brothers cold-bloodedly killing a sister who dared select her personal soulmate. Neta grandstanding on ‘honour of our mothers and sisters’ solely makes me ask why then does our most casually spat gaali contain the identical mythically deified ladies. Yup, the pedestal has clay toes.
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Alec Smart stated, “Kanwariya yatra is over. Now please smoothen the car-variya’s path.”
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