Let
me start off with Wishing everybody a Happy Women’s Day. In my humble opinion,
we do not need and we should not have a day for celebration for women. Because
it itself brings a dichotomy among us, the Humans.
But
as we and the world celebrates a day for women across the world, let me draw
some important points which shows the power with which the women are bestowed. A
woman plays a role of a Baby, a Wife, Mother, a Mother in Law, a Sister, a
Sister in Law, a Grandmother at different stages of life. This it-self has some
sort of animosity for example, at one place where she is loved as a Daughter
but suddenly bitched about where she is Daughter in Law. But then, I live in
India where there are very high standards to treat women lower to the Men
(Funny).
We
Indians will fight for our religion and all for what we eat. For example, some
people fight against Killing of Cow which is right in first place because Cow
is worshipped as a mother in the religion. The problem of India is, we consider
Cows as our mother, our country India as our mother, we shall kill and beat the
shit out of somebody when somebody does anything to Cows and our India but when
it comes to our own Mother or Daughter, we do not respect them. I am sure that
some of the people of the country do respect the Female gender in any which way
but Majority doesn’t and that’s my outrage for today. Why do we need to think
before Respecting them? Are we in any which way superior to the other gender? Do
we have superiority complex? Actually we have Inferiority complex that if we
respect them and let them freely do what they want to, they will succeed in
every field with us. You want Examples? Read below the power of women that has
been enriching the state of Gujarat all this years. I am talking about Gujarat
because that’s where I belong from and all this years I have experienced and
noticed the POWER of WOMEN in every field.
1. There
is small village in Gujarat near city the spiritual city of Dakor. Due to
reservation system, for one term of its Gram Panchayat, the Sarpanch (Panchayat
Head) had to be a Woman. Also one third of the elected members had to be women.
Now, to the surprise, the people of the village decided to give all the seats
of the Gram Panchayat to Women and let them run the administration of the
village for next five years. This was a sheer surprise because it was first
time in the history of Gujarat that an entire 5 years term was to be fulfilled
by only women. The village got a great luck ahead and the per capita income of
that Village almost doubled. This is the proof that, apart from Businesses,
Cooking, women are good at Administration too. Looking at this great thought,
the Government of Gujarat announced a special status for all those Gram
Panchayats who put all members as Women for the entire term. You all would be
glad to know that there are 300 Villages today where the administration are run
wholly by women and they are flourishing.
2. Just
give a thought. Can small shop of grocery can sustain against the Multinational
chains of Super Stores? Take Pizza Hut as an example, can a small Haath Gaadi
of Pizza sustain against Pizza Hut? No it cannot. But I shall give you a true
story and example. We have a chain of
pizza selling vendors by the name of “Jashuben na Pizza” in Ahmedabad. They are
immensely popular. And I would say it to the extent that, if there is a stall
of Jashuben na Pizza near Pizza Hut, it is 100% surety that an Amdavadi would
go for Jashuben na Pizza and not Pizza Hut. Jashuben who is no more, she passed
away in Pune before 8 years, left a legacy of its Pizza with her hard work and
has a huge market in the city of Ahmedabad.
3. Have
you ever been to a Fiver Star Hotel? If not, then just be to it. You will find
a Food menu which will have Salads, Milkshakes, Dahi (Curd) and all. But you
will never find the brand of that Dahi or Milkshake or Salad. You will not find
Amul or Mother Dairy written against the Dahi. But you will find PAPAD which
will be written as LIJJAT PAPAD. I have marked it. When you go next time, just
mark it. I would urge all reading this to study about LIJJAT PAPAD. What is it?
It is a consortium of tribal based Adivasi and uneducated women in the state of
Gujarat which has started the idea of LIJJAT PAPAD. They started with the
initial investment of Rs. 80/- and now they sell Papad worth Millions and
Billions across the world. The whole administration is run by women and has
turned into a cooperative society.
4. In
a village near a city in Gujarat, a group of some 20 odd women gathered
together and formed a company by collecting their savings, got some grant from
Government and some Bank Loan. They got themselves into service sector and
presented themselves as Servers in events like Weddings, Gathering. Just by
their serving itself, the expenditure of Food of events and waste of food got a
considerable deduction.
I
have seen in some houses when a father and his son are talking about some
business stuff and the wife comes to give tea, then both of them stop talking
and ask her to leave the place. We do not involve the other gender. I think our
country’s economy shall boom up to 40-50% if women become equal partners in the
growth. I think the Dairy industry is not just about man working for some
brand, but it’s the tireless efforts of Women across the villages which makes a
brand like AMUL in the world.
So
this is a Power of Women. We just need to include them in our Decision making
process. And that will help us make our country flourishing and nourishing. We
know that there are Income Tax benefits for companies engaged in Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR). We should thrive towards handing that segment of
the companies to Women of the group.
There
are so many religions in which the female gender is not allowed to pursue
higher education. Some religions have restricted the female’s education for
some selected courses. Some religion do not allow their female population to
work for a living because it is not safe for them. Albeit, what I think is let
the women study and work and include them in the decision making process. And I
am sure that we would not need another Women’s Day celebration. Just respect
them and treat them equally and I am sure we won’t need reservations for women
anymore and my country, our country would make it to the sky one day.
Happy
Women’s Day…!!! May God Bless All…!!!
