Painting ‘half the sky’ their means. No show-sha
Step again, males. It’s raining ladies, or will likely be this IWD weekend. There’ll be the standard platitudes – and flatitudes. All I ask for is latitude to honour these doing their very own factor with out wanting to interrupt paths or ceilings. Just atypical ladies.
Yes, sure, aam aurat was already Most Favoured Notion; moved into yet one more function, from daughter/sister/mom to political fodder. No level ruminating on these splashed with money, extra motivated than motivating. Everyone by now is aware of that Maharashtra’s largesse-giving Mahayuti acquired larger ‘pampering’ than yojana-receiving ‘ladli behen’.
No, this IWD I don’t need to hail our regular WMDs, Women of Mass Discussion. Like hosannah-ed head henchos. Or 20-somethings of our limitless start-ups. No, not even savvy home-chefs initially plated up by Covid; however, as a substitute, their peelers, choppers and wash-uppers who additionally eyed the cake.
Women who embody empowerment however don’t put on it on their sleeves.
Like these strolling by means of newly opened doorways, after which utilizing them as home windows of larger alternative. Like ‘parlour didi’ Reshma, who upskilled, accessed newly accessible loans, acquired the sheen of her purchasers and set herself up independently.
Like Kasturi, whom I met promoting home-crafted kandeels, however was learning to be a CA. Two Diwalis later, she had upped her aspiration to firm secretary.
Like mother-daughter duo of takeaway-dinner stall. Smart16 beti is the ‘face’, briskly meting out bhakri–rotis from a sizzling case; shabbier ai squats invisibly beneath handing her plastic packets of bhaji. One clean silent cycle, 7-10pm, or ‘till stocks last’.
Like the tower block’s ‘arriviste’ who, unfazed by its toned Spandex gangs, does her stretch-sequence in shiny sari. Bindi-ed and bindaas.
Like spunky octogenarians who sing bhajans at our advanced’s Ganapati celebration, and as gamely shimmy to ‘Chin-chin-chu’ at its ‘Grand Variety Entertainment’. Each atypical night, they descend, showered, powdered and contemporary sari-ed to bond like several Cosmo sisterhood – until they determine once they’re performed. Hungry husbands can wait.
Lib with out an excessive amount of lip. That’s what I’ll rejoice this IWD.
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Disclaimer
This article is meant to carry a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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