If tomorrow i need something and i dont get it, i surely know what to do.....A man of Anna's experience, understanding presenting such a bad n dangerous precedent is really disheartening....i whole heartedly support Anna's cause but with equal heart condemn his way of going about things....
No legislation can ever bring any social change..if that could happen, dowry deaths, communal riots, caste/gender discrimination wld hav been long part of our history books alone n not our everyday reality...Corruption begins with us and if it has to end it should be a self motivated initiative from within us.....Just recall, when last time u jumped a red light, was it u who offered traffic policeman a Rs 100 note instead of paying thrice the amount as legal fine or was it him who asked for it??
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Saturday, June 27, 2009
IS IT SAD, SHOCKING OR JUST ANOTHER DAY IN HER LIFE?
Its not that I am not aware of domestic violence being part of lives of so many women in our country but somehow, yesterday when my domestic help showed her bruises (thanks to her husband who came home drunk last night), I did not know how to react. First I impulsively asked her whether did she retaliate and hit him back too? She did not say anything and continued doing her work. And then suggested her(I don't know whether seriously or jokingly) to take a bottle from me and do the same thing tonight with him. When I asked her what did he hit her for bruise in her head was causing her lot of pain, to my utter surprise I got to know it was all done physically with his hands without any stick or rod.
My mother was listening to all this and when I looked at her inquisitively, what she said to me only added to my amazement or perhaps perplexity.Her reaction was not one of feeling sad about the incident . Instead she told me that I have no clue how powerful a man's hand is. I don't know what made her say this but these two different (and yet identical) reactions from my domestic help and my mother left me clueless as to how to react. It was sad for me,not for them. It was shocking that they took it so calmly. Why they did not react to it, the way i did? Do i need to learn something from it? Was i being told how should i react at some future date?
Through out the night i kept thinking about the incident and tried to envisage what would I do if it happened to me? And my only answer was A TIGHT SLAP BACK!!!!!
My mother was listening to all this and when I looked at her inquisitively, what she said to me only added to my amazement or perhaps perplexity.Her reaction was not one of feeling sad about the incident . Instead she told me that I have no clue how powerful a man's hand is. I don't know what made her say this but these two different (and yet identical) reactions from my domestic help and my mother left me clueless as to how to react. It was sad for me,not for them. It was shocking that they took it so calmly. Why they did not react to it, the way i did? Do i need to learn something from it? Was i being told how should i react at some future date?
Through out the night i kept thinking about the incident and tried to envisage what would I do if it happened to me? And my only answer was A TIGHT SLAP BACK!!!!!
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