There’s a lot of noise about the Int’l Women’s Day in the media.
All are preaching repeatedly the same boring things: Education & Empowerment.
Does education really empower women?
Or, does it make them more vulnerable?
And what about happiness?
Does education & empowerment bring happiness to the descendents of those women who’ve been deprived of the same since the begining of civilization?
The measure of happiness is read on the scale of freedom.
If education makes you a Sime de Bouvre, or a Hellen Keller, or a Parijat - Bravo!
But if you turn up to be among Virginia Woof, Sylvia Plath, Marilyn Monroe - isn’t ignorance bliss?
Osho says that more than political & economic revolutions, the world needs a Sexual Revolution.
Simply saying patriarchy is evading the question - say it categorically that your Churches, Mosques, & Temples are behind all atrocities against women.
Our Fathers, Mullahs, & Pundits are responsible for all our sufferings.
Women have always been linked sex more than anything else.
Ironically, they too, seem to have accepted the label.
Sex has been related with character.
And educated women are supposed to possess extra-ordinary character.
In this part of the world, a woman is always paranoid about ‘losing her character.’
And losing her character doesn’t mean she does something wrong, or harms someone, - its means how others’ judge her.
The more she’s educated, the greater grow her fears.
Education that liberates is wonderful.
But education that confines a person within one’s own paranoia is meaningless.
Let the day come soon when there’d be no Women’s Day!
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Or, who knows I may be mistaken!
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