India, in all probability, is about to get its first woman Head of State. A lady with a hyphenated surname-something even
Hillary Clinton couldn’t afford; a former beauty contest winner and once a champion Table Tennis player. Social commentators mention it as a significant step in the emancipation of Indian women although a few skeptics view it as a first step towards the empowerment of another woman.
A dog digging at the ground desperately aroused the curiosity of a few passers-by in the outskirts of Utkoor, a small town in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahabubnagar district, this past week. They were shocked to find a little hand sticking out, as if seeking a helping hand to lift it! They dug out a baby girl, barely two days old and rushed her to the nearby hospital. The police had taken into custody, her grand parents and ‘eighteen year old mother!’ whose husband had migrated to neighboring Maharashtra in search of work.
May be, if she survives, she'll one day grow up and become another beauty queen or a champion sports person or a President or another teen aged Mother.....
But killing of stray dogs could seriously jeopardize the lot of the Indian women.....
6 comments:
lets all pray and hope that a woman president will change the Indian woman's conditions and not become just-another-rubber-stamp for another woman and her party
She has all the makings of a true rubber stamp... and now, the president's office would also be rid of corruption free incumbents :-D
i don't think, pratiba is in the least competent enough for the post!
woman prez for the sake of it, that's what i think of it ...
the post could've gone to a better deserving person.
about the hand, these're some of those great ironies in life ...
its heart-wrenching to read about such outrageous incidents.why just this one,the civilised indian soceity can still boast of dowry deaths and female foeticide.shame on us,thats the least that can be said.
'But killing of stray dogs could seriously jeopardize the lot of the Indian women.....'-that caused a chill in my bone!
In prose or in poetry, it's often the readers who pick out the meanings and the messages......
I don't know what you intended...
But I just meant that 'homeless or friendless' animals are often more compassionate than the so called human beings....
In this particular case, the urgency shown by such a creature in saving the life of an infant....
And I had generalized its action as representative in nature....
That statement brings out the wretchedness of the women's plight!But for a stray dog..
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