Dilemmas of today

  Almost the entire, cricket crazy nation must have glue eyed their television sets not to watch Virat Kohli and his men play but to watch Mithali Raj and her women kick some butts in this so called gentleman's game. The question arises to me is how often have we actually backed, supported or cheered the women and  that too in a game like cricket? Have any of us even watched their complete game before? The answer is a big No! I might have seen the highlights of Harmanpreet Kaur's 171 in the semi finals against Australia but not a full fledged match. We watch men's games even if India isn't playing in it but not a women's game even if India is winning. I was stunned to understand that women's world cup started in 1973 whereas the men's world cup 2 years later in 1975. Then why such hipocrysy???     If you have watched today's game keenly there were very few advertisements in between the overs whereas there are dozens of sponsors in the men's games. A...

{Before reading this blog, read the last one "No means No" because this is a continuation of the that one. }     I read somewhere it is hard being a woman. You must think like a man, act like a lady- well mannered , look like a young girl- naive and beautiful and work like a horse - hardworking and relentless. On the other hand nobody expects anything out of a man other than being himself. Well according to science it's just the difference of the genotypes XY for males and XX for females, just a difference of one chromosome. But NO, there's a huge difference. This blog is to do a comparison between the freehand that the men are given whilst the women are judged for the same.     The culture of our country is the oldest one and the traditions are well known. Also people willingly worship the goddesses and on the other hand treat the women as indifferent. Yes, we live in a patriarchal society, where the man of the house is the most important person even if ...

  From time immemorial we've seen women been the pawns of the men's games, even our mythological stories tells the same tale be it Draupadi in Mahabharata who was forced to marry five brothers- the Pandavas and later was assaulted by the Kauravas while the Pandavas remained the bystanders. Similar is the case of Seeta from Ramayana. She was abducted by Ravana but Ram fought against him and won the war and got his wife back but later she was forced to give the 'Agnipariksha.'    Yesterday I saw this trending video on YouTube. It was a CCTV footage of a young girl in Bangalore - the IT hub of the country. She was walking past a lane in the middle of the night, probably to her home, suddenly two men on a vehicle drove past her. They saw her and returned back. The one sitting on the back got down and groped her in the middle of the road, she started fidgiting, the man held her fiercely and grabbed her towards the vehicle. When she resisted even more he jolted her to the gr...