Talk about originality

This is one of our less documented sides. All of us (all of us sounds much more powerful than the 3 of us right?) believe that women in our nation still do not get the right of equality that they thoroughly deserve. We in fact strongly mean this. We as a nation have a very very long way to go before women see anything close to equality in our country and we ought to be ashamed of this fact.

We can state examples to drive our point, but then everybody knows it (the inequality) exists, so why bother. If required, each of us can individually point out at least 3 incidents where inequality has been displayed in even the IT scenario, but then again, why bother.

This has nothing to do with the government or the rules or the organizations or firms or whatever, the rules seem fair when seen from a distance, yeah you’ll can point out flaws and all, but honestly, the rules are quite fair in the broader perspective, don’t you think?

It’s the attitudes of the people that inhabit this country that needs an overhaul. I mean women are instinctively given secondary treatment in the tiniest of things, not to forget huge differences in other things.

For instance, the ‘eligible bachelor’ article was all fun and all from my point of view, but then the girl could’ve had it bad. In fact most girls that age have it real bad.

Anyways, these are all things that everybody knows about, so nevermind them…

Here’s something not many will have noticed, so here goes.

Names are a big deal right? I mean most people really give importance to their names.
How many female names can you think of right now that do not end with either and ‘a’ or an ‘i’, or to look at it in the perspective of the Indian languages, how many names aren’t pronounced ‘ah’ of ‘e’ at the end? (so that includes ‘y’ and in some cases ‘e’)

And genuine Indian names plz, not Marilyn or something.

I can’t think of too many.

-Komodo Dragon

Now that KD has brought the attitude in picture, thought it would be appropriate to add a few lines on the same.

Well, to start with, we Indians are a very different lot. I don’t know why, but we get some kinda pleasure in doing wrong things and the worst is that we are genuinely proud of it. For instance, stopping when the signal turns red is a crime in India. And if one ‘abnormal’ person decides to do so, he is looked at like an alien. Why just traffic rules. Let’s talk about the topic in hand. Women have always been taken for granted in India. And we carry this sick Indian mentality which does not allow us to think beyond.

I don’t understand what we are proud of. Are we proud of the fact that we feel women are weak and dependent? Now if we stress our minds a little, we will realize that women have also played a major role in creating such a mindset. How many women in India believe that there is more to their life than just the house hold chores and bringing up kids? How many of them are practical and not emotional? How many women actually want to change? The count would be meager.

The other day a friend was upset because one of her cousins was being troubled by her in-laws and goes on to explain me how things don’t work in India and how you got to adjust with whatever you are going through. Common guys, enough of finding excuses to cover our short-comings. Try to find one excuse and you get thousands.

-- AHAK