Our Girls

Well, there is a lot of talk about women empowerment these days, and i could not keep away from the topic. Well, there is an immediate cause for this post of mine too.

SAINA NEHWAL. This girl has done wonders to the image of Indian women in a positive way. The media is yet to accord her a super star status. But she is really one of our best women achievers. Today I read in Times of India there was this 3 column interview of Saina where she said that she was more famous in Malaysia and Indonesia than in India. That's a matter of shame for us, i believe.

When our parliament is mooting 33% reservation for women, this girl has got there with most of the odds against her. She has done us proud and the govt has even forgotten to give her the prize money promised. She has to be the real face of Indian women and an inspiration for many of our Indian girls.


Forget Saina, Indian girls have done us proud across times, we have but always forgotten them. The Indian women's cricket team did us so proud in the last 50 over world cup and the recently concluded T20 world Cup. But we are still cribbing about what the boys did. The girls did not make it to even the first sports page, forget the front page in many news dailies.

We remember our women only for their mini skirts and deep necks, and that's a real shame. Many guys can swear on good lord the skirt size of Sania Mirza , but never her highest ranking. That's the state of our support for our own girls. Still these girls are making it big, again and again and again. Still we find it very easy to forget them. Today our girls have grown so strong and open minded that they are joining the armed forces. They don't have strong bodies as many men, but many men don't have their strong minds or resolve.

Another lady who comes to my mind is Nirupama Rao, our ambassador to China. I read, she was summoned early morning around 2 am by the Chinese foreign office and she replied to the call of Duty.I saw a photograph in Times of India during the just completed general election , where i saw the pic of a young police girl , white, not too tall, well dressed in her cop uniform, holding a auto rifle giving a million dollar smile as she guarded a polling office. My chest swelled with pride to say the least.

I recently saw an add of the Dove soap. I was just thinking, if we were to portray our real women. It should not be women who win elections because her husband is somebody big, or because of her caste. It should not women who went places because she knew people in high places.

We have loads of schemes that are already up and are on anvil for women empowerment. But the real need is for an action plan and targets. People of quality don't need reservations, all they need is support. There are hundreds on Saina, Nirupama and that young copgirl. We don't need to find them. We just gotta create an environment where they get a change. They will FIND US.

That will take us one step closer to beautiful, peaceful and prosperous India.

FOR what many martyrs have give their life.