Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Women and What if?

Take yourself in the backdrop when you have watched the great Epic, Mahabharata, as a film or as a TV serial. Remember that episode when the Princess Kunti leaves her beloved son, Karna just because of the shame of this judgemental society.

What if being a single mother wasn't considered a shame at that time? What if an unmarried woman had the same place and authority like that of a married one? Or to be more precise, like that of a man? 

What if Kunti had put up the condition before Prince Pandu, that she will marry only if Pandu and his family accepts her son, Karna too! What if Kunti had not married to anyone and just raised her child Karna with full dedication. After all she was a princess, what else she needed!

Actually these 'What if' were neither acceptable then, nor now!....,just for the females. Males 
don't have to deal with these 'What if'. That is 
our inherited tradition and part of culture. 
The story of Mahabharata would have a much 
different if these discriminations would have not been there. 
Most of the chaos and disturbances in the society was and is only because of the injustice against women. Nothing else! 

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