Mahashweta ….well this is the title of the book that I read recently. This book is basically on the ground of women empowerment. It is actually a fable about a young girl her dreams, aspirations & how they undergo a transformation when she meets a boy and undergo a marriage.
This book is about the atrocities face by women in this highly educated world and how she is to be blamed even by the so called educated society for all the miss happenings in her life over which she has no control. The lead character in the book Anupama, who plays the role of Mahasweta in one of her plays, meets and falls in love with a boy at the first site. They both get married hoping for a long happy life without any of them knowing what the future has in coffers for them. The girl later develops Lekoderma a disease in which skin develops with patches; she is then discarded by all her in-laws and family members. The only person she had trusted with the statement “till death do us part” did not have the courage to stand up to her support against his own family. Then the girl retracts her path of career and once again starts her journey to normalcy.
Another aspect the was brought into light was that of convenience relationship, when her friends husband tries to molest her besides calling her his sister, when he notices that anupama is way too beautiful than his own wife, as if the beauty of the girl has been a curse to her.
There are many examples that we find in our surrounding where the girls are either mistreated or not given the due respect had honor that they deserve in the society. From time immemorial there is the habit of treating the girls as second grade of the human species. When right from the very beginning of nurturing a baby in her body to its birth and then further to bringing him up a women play equal or even greater part than a men than why after 10,000 years of human existence and 5000 years of known civilization she has not been able to get her due place in the society. Why she has been always used as an object of child birth and bringing him up.
Another dimension of the problem that I realized after reading this book is that why in the institution of marriage is always a too edge sword for a girl to a cake walk for boys. I do not deny the fact that the adjustments have to be made by both the partners for success of a marriage, but still the question is are the number of sacrifices made by the girl same as that of the boy and are the magnitude of both equal. From the change of second name to change of city, even profession and customs and culture why is girl taken for granted that she will change?
A logical explanation to this I found in a basic human behavior of POWER. The one who has more decides the rule of the game this power can be both physically or emotionally, but in this rather civilized world it is more of times economical. Rarely we would have came across a arrange marriage having a rich girl and poor boy, & even if it do happen than the success of such a marriage is highly vulnerable. Because nobody wants to be the looser on both ends. Now another question arises that is the economics of bank balance is the real decider of the human values and respect of an entire relation.
Well this debate has been going for ages and might go on forever without actually really wanting to know the actual reason. There are some truths in life that we don’t know, others that we don’t want to know, it being the second one.
This book is about the atrocities face by women in this highly educated world and how she is to be blamed even by the so called educated society for all the miss happenings in her life over which she has no control. The lead character in the book Anupama, who plays the role of Mahasweta in one of her plays, meets and falls in love with a boy at the first site. They both get married hoping for a long happy life without any of them knowing what the future has in coffers for them. The girl later develops Lekoderma a disease in which skin develops with patches; she is then discarded by all her in-laws and family members. The only person she had trusted with the statement “till death do us part” did not have the courage to stand up to her support against his own family. Then the girl retracts her path of career and once again starts her journey to normalcy.
Another aspect the was brought into light was that of convenience relationship, when her friends husband tries to molest her besides calling her his sister, when he notices that anupama is way too beautiful than his own wife, as if the beauty of the girl has been a curse to her.
There are many examples that we find in our surrounding where the girls are either mistreated or not given the due respect had honor that they deserve in the society. From time immemorial there is the habit of treating the girls as second grade of the human species. When right from the very beginning of nurturing a baby in her body to its birth and then further to bringing him up a women play equal or even greater part than a men than why after 10,000 years of human existence and 5000 years of known civilization she has not been able to get her due place in the society. Why she has been always used as an object of child birth and bringing him up.
Another dimension of the problem that I realized after reading this book is that why in the institution of marriage is always a too edge sword for a girl to a cake walk for boys. I do not deny the fact that the adjustments have to be made by both the partners for success of a marriage, but still the question is are the number of sacrifices made by the girl same as that of the boy and are the magnitude of both equal. From the change of second name to change of city, even profession and customs and culture why is girl taken for granted that she will change?
A logical explanation to this I found in a basic human behavior of POWER. The one who has more decides the rule of the game this power can be both physically or emotionally, but in this rather civilized world it is more of times economical. Rarely we would have came across a arrange marriage having a rich girl and poor boy, & even if it do happen than the success of such a marriage is highly vulnerable. Because nobody wants to be the looser on both ends. Now another question arises that is the economics of bank balance is the real decider of the human values and respect of an entire relation.
Well this debate has been going for ages and might go on forever without actually really wanting to know the actual reason. There are some truths in life that we don’t know, others that we don’t want to know, it being the second one.
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