Women's Day is here. For some, it means attending seminars, for some others, it's about forwarding text snippets wishing each other a 'Happy Women's Day.' For me, it may be about writing a tactful copy line for my company's newsletter content informing customers about how we mean to acknowledge this day, by offering an 'irresistible' discount of a few dollars on outfits on our site. And more such claustrobhic cliched images blurring past your sight that drive you crazy. It'll be there to greet me, and many other humans, next year too, I'm certain.
Celebrating Women's Day? Commemorating this day, is an acknowledgement, or a feeble but sinewed hope towards promulgating egalitarianism. Or so I would like to think, not believe, yet. Keeping in mind instances, like the stature of transgenders in our country - the government a little to eager too boast of having given out 1600-odd Aadhaar Cards to transgender residents in Delhi way back in August last year - when members of the community do not even have the prerequisites for applying for the Aadhaar Card, for obvious reasons. Besides the stench of notions about them that have floated in the form of furtive glances and whispers all along, in the country. What about the fact there's no 'Men's Day' in the calendar? In a country where gender has always been misinterpretedly veiled under monochromatic extremes, forever struggling to code gender as binary opposites, love as pink or gay, where the majority seems to be unable to cope up with the acknowledging/accepting that the question doesn't end at a simple 'You're pardonable because you haven't committed the act of rape in real. (Oh but he's fantasized about it with quite as many women passing by him, at a bus stop, maybe?')
The rampant and forever unacknowledged inequality that women face, and all internalise, as natural, for the rest 364 days of the year, in all spheres - does a 'global' celebration actually boil to even an echo of the 'ideal', at a home, cultures, geographies away, is the question.
Celebrating Women's Day? Commemorating this day, is an acknowledgement, or a feeble but sinewed hope towards promulgating egalitarianism. Or so I would like to think, not believe, yet. Keeping in mind instances, like the stature of transgenders in our country - the government a little to eager too boast of having given out 1600-odd Aadhaar Cards to transgender residents in Delhi way back in August last year - when members of the community do not even have the prerequisites for applying for the Aadhaar Card, for obvious reasons. Besides the stench of notions about them that have floated in the form of furtive glances and whispers all along, in the country. What about the fact there's no 'Men's Day' in the calendar? In a country where gender has always been misinterpretedly veiled under monochromatic extremes, forever struggling to code gender as binary opposites, love as pink or gay, where the majority seems to be unable to cope up with the acknowledging/accepting that the question doesn't end at a simple 'You're pardonable because you haven't committed the act of rape in real. (Oh but he's fantasized about it with quite as many women passing by him, at a bus stop, maybe?')
The rampant and forever unacknowledged inequality that women face, and all internalise, as natural, for the rest 364 days of the year, in all spheres - does a 'global' celebration actually boil to even an echo of the 'ideal', at a home, cultures, geographies away, is the question.
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