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Happenings in Bangalore on new year 2017 - a perspective

I am appalled at the recent incidents in Bangalore and New Delhi – where the mob took a new meaning for celebration and enjoyment. I am at a loss of words for the direction we are all headed. It has been apathy of the women or the females to be at the receiving end when the male tries to show his superiority. I heard something similar or even more derogatory sometime earlier – “What happened to us”.

Interestingly I had been pondering over this situation since late December 2016 when I read Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar. I happened to watch Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s movie Pinjar as well. The transformation from Puro to Hamida was enough for me to understand the cruelties that the females withered for the alpha male. However, what we easily forgot was the transformation of the same Hamida into a tigress when another girl – “Lajo” was kidnapped in similar circumstances. Hamida or Puro made sure that Lajo does not goes through the same scenarios like her. Even when Puro chooses to lead her life as Hamid, she would not let any Lajo to undergo the similar transformations as herself.

This to me is a great of Women Empowerment. In Pinjar the great turn in Puro was brought out by Rashid Lala – the guy who abducted her. In modern families 99% of time the role is played by the husband.

Here’s a message for both the females and the males – Suffering / exertion of one’s power over the other has been a natural truth. Domination and castigation of the other sex is more common when the alpha male tries to steer its head up. Per the vedic understanding, the female form represents the physical aspects and hence the atrocities are mainly hurled at the physical abilities.

Many modern-day efforts are geared towards justice when the atrocities towards the female have happened. Consider a NGO or what the term qualifies them – “Naari Mukti Morcha”. Whether modern or mideaval, there has been a great emphasis from time to time about the contributions made by women to society, science and art The need today, is for the organization to raise an awareness about the completeness the female form provides. The need is for the alpha male to realize that he is alpha because there is a female to acknowledge the same. The need is for the “Naari Mukti Morcha” not from the claws of the male form but from the confines the form defines for itself.

The dharma is to understand this very instinct of the human being and control it. Whether it’s the male or the female oppressing each other would deprive us of development of an important aspect of mind. This is exactly what Vyasa agonized in his last few verses of Mahabharata.


I wish we understand our part and do the needful. The female is not weak, nor are males any superior. The males have not been endowed differently than the female. The nature has called for coexistence. And coexistence doesn’t come at a price of one. Let’s promise to ourselves to stop this brutality of sexes and work towards a congenial world for everyone to coexist – probably thrive.

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