Are we chained or changed? – Project Aavahan

American poetess Sylvia Plath says- “Being born a woman is my awful tragedy.”

Let us meet Sayma; she strikes as a young school-going teenager with her big bright eyes which want to see so much and ask so many questions. However, here she is, helping her mother in daily house chores!

Her family is not classic poor; they own their own small Garment Business. But still, she does not have a chance to lead a fulfilling life. “I want to learn Computer”, she chimes, but her elder brother shuts her up and says that girls are not allowed to go out in their families.” It is a notorious act”, he firmly said. He further declares girls in their families only need to learn cooking so that they can feed their husbands. According to him, a woman can be occupied in cooking only.

My heart broke into two, when his mother, being a woman herself, supported her brother and said, giving freedom to girls make them Delinquent, and they become Characterless. In a country, where our first citizen, The PRESIDENT of our country had been a woman, we still are fighting with such rigid mindsets. This leaves us with a question, …

where everything is changing, has anything yet changed!