Colors, The Colorful and Life

Women’s Day and Holi kind of coincided today. It was a great coincidence of the colours meeting up with the colourful. Throughout the day there have been symposiums, seminars, television discussions on women’s equality, women’s reservations (In India everybody wants to reserve everything) and many more while others played with the colours.

Somebody mentioned the facts that while women want equality at office it would be a case of inverse snobbery if the same woman wants a man to lift her suitcase or perhaps open the door for her. There could be other examples should one stand up when a woman enters a room or that debate on whether a man should pay the bill at a restaurant or allow her to pick up the tab.

But these are rather trivial stuff when compared to the basic issues of women’s education that start at home where a girl since the time she was born is fed with the tenets of life. Housekeeping, cooking are the priorities she is being brainwashed with. The men will be the provider and would be the one in actual control.

This basic mindset needs to change the world over in families when they bring up their children. The responsibility is shared by both the parents and the elderly of the society. Are we really working towards this?

The colours of the spectrum cannot hide this basic anomaly in the way we teach life to kids!! Sphere: Related Content