It's is an auspicious day to celebrate a festival of trustworthiness, allegiance and tenderness. This sacred festival is being celebrated since the ancient times which depict the chaste bond of love between a brother and a sister. But the main concern, after scrutinising the harsh ground realities, is that we have secluded or rather restrained our thoughts, actions and perspective to a narrow one. Raksha Bandhan is a day to remind us of our persistent duty and responsibilities towards our sisters instead of perceiving it as a ceremonial function to exchange gifts.
When we verbalise in our schools that- “all Indians are our brothers and sisters” and when we project India as a land of sacred cultures and ethics then it really feels repentant and apologetic as being one of its citizen when we see the ground discourse of the condition of a women in this country. The culture and tradition of India is taken up with serenity all over the world where people worship various female goddesses, saints and poets. Majority of women in India face lots of social issues and problems through out her life. Some of the pertaining yet disturbing issues are as follows :
Selective Abortion and Female Infanticide: It is the most common practice for years in India in which abortion of female foetus is performed in the womb of mother after the foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by the medical professionals.
Disparity In Education: The level of women education is less than men still in the modern age. Female illiteracy index higher in the rural areas. Where over 63% or more women remain unlettered.
Inadequate Nutrition: Inadequate nutrition in the childhood affects women in their later life especially women belonging to the lower middle class and poor families.
Sexual Harassment: It is the form of sexual exploitation of a girl child at home, streets, public places, transports and offices.
There are many more issues like Dowry practises and Domestic violence.
Thus, when we interpolate the facts and figures of women discrimination, Just for an ex. I would like to quote as a matter of fact that - “70% of the women population in India faces a direct or indirect means of domestic violence”. Who does this ???
Someone from our own community (who in spite celebrate Raksha Bandhan religiously at their home) only inculcate these habits.
Henceforth, we are forced to think that instead of merely exchanging gifts and other fantasising things, everyone should rather make a commitment in themselves to protect the dignity, right, prominence and self-respect of a girl as she may be one’s sister, mother, daughter or wife. Celebrating a festival on a particular day is meant only to remind us to have a continuous purity of thoughts in one’s life, but at ground zero it’s very disheartening that most people considers it as one day celebration. They indulge themselves on how to celebrate that particular day with full elation instead on what and why we need to celebrate it and what is its true meaning.
Thus, government will bring numerous initiatives as it’s their duty to empower women but it will not bear fruits ( or end results ) unless each individual understands the true essence of Raksha-Bandhan, which’s nothing but having a “purity of thoughts and that thoughts turning down into meaningful actions - for each female out in this world over and above merely just blood-relations”
————————HAPPY RAKSHA BANDHAN —————————
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