Women with wings of fire

As they say ‘she’s just a girl but she’s on fire’ , behold the new generation cause now they don’t hide in shadows, neither fear of the odds, they can look through the cobwebs and are learning what to do and how to do at the right moment.
The significance of women has increased significantly over ages. Since independence the struggle for women suffrage had been a prolonged effort and it took over 7 decades to actually see all the indigence turning into an optimistic end. Just a small number it might seem, but getting the ratio of men and women voters to almost ‘one on one’ seemed building castles in the air task. Women in our country are given privilege on the surface; they’ve long being caged in their own insecurities and responsibilities. It’s very sanguine to see all of it slowly fading away with time.

This time election ballyhoos are at their pinnacle, I see the streets brimming with incessant posters of the top candidates contesting for the chief governance post. Everyone could see the hype of this year’s big event, every paper, every magazine, every street is saying out loud. Whatever the covering maybe it has all resulted into a rage of awareness which positively turned out to be good impact on the nation as a whole. Looking at the stats, the percentage of women voters have increased so significantly that it’s getting hard to keep up with the score. After blue pencilling, there has been 63% increase in the women population voting which smacked the record since independence. Such stupendous change can now shake the government citadel with a cynosure move.

The only requirement now at stake is, helping the women judge as per their own perspective and not as per what the people around them believe. The female population still needs to know how responsible they can be in making a significant change towards the society without amenable prejudices. Our n.g.o ‘AnantAman’ is working towards creating awareness among women of our society in order to make the half population turn into a ‘better half’ of a country. We believe that making them more aware about the current scenarios related to the political systems and issues can help them create their own vision of the society they wish to survive. Still many women fail to read newspaper or take out time to glance over country chaos. It’s the family and the society which can help them know the administration more deeply, so that they also understand that one vote can nevertheless make an undoubted difference. Some say women are not good leaders, but many of the women panchayat have brought much more sensitive issues into the lime light,which the male geriatrics fail to point out. Since a decade, women leaders of various villages took over the most basic issues like sanitation, girl education, water supply to the next level. They have a wider understanding of all the basic needs of any middle class family. We all need to unite and make our mothers; our grandmothers or our aunts; our sisters raise their voices of individuality towards voting for a better future. It’s sad to see that the parliament house has 11% females working, where the reservation is purposely made for them to enter into politics. All we need is to make them realise the need of the hour for much active participation.

They say ‘with great power comes a great responsibility’ , now elections are surely the blue moon events to make a change for the coming five years governance, so why not take step forward to understand the power and responsibility coming along with it and help the women fly with the wings of fire.

She looks out to her own people from a small kitchen opening;
she has a lot to say at times, and out of words in many situations;
she bargains like crazy, can talk about all the things concluding into a black hole;
she is a girl, a wife, an employee, a leader, a follower;
I wonder what she thinks when she peeks out in the open bus window sky;
all I know is that everyone individually has little power to change the world but only if they know how small bricks make a large castle.

Soumya Sharma
AnantAmanSWS