Get the lion out of us…..not just a butterfly!

Arushi Bharti
class X-B

Life of a woman in India is like a red traffic light! Not turning into the orange one, as in process, nor can we say will ever change into the green one! It has just STOPPED! And this is because of the demons the evils hiding somewhere next to us in our society. Every next second, is a news of a girl raped, even a 3 years old girl who wouldn’t even remember what happened to her at that age. But why is this happening ??? Because we are letting this happen to us! But why are we letting this happen to us?? Because of the missing Y Chromosome ? NO! We are letting this happen to us because we are scared of the minds of the other 10 people who we barely know! Parents ask us to forget what happened because they think its a big mark of shame on their faces! They don’t want us to earn…..even if we earn the husband is an alcoholic an abuse! They think a baby girl is a burden but a boy is divine, can do anything. But they forget, a boy cannot give birth but a woman can. The grand father, the father, the young man who just got married, is in this world because of a woman!

It’s high time to act like a tendril of a plant!
We need to get the lion out of us…..not just a butterfly!

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आखिर कब तक

Shweta Singh
BTC Sultanpur

आखिर कब तक
“अबला ! नहीं तुम सबला बनो
अत्त्याचार का प्रतिकार करो !”

नारी तुम “केवल श्रधा” हो ?
इसी से धोखे खाए है !
“नारी -सशक्तिरण का युग
कायम होकर ही रहेगा
अब चुप न रहना वाले
है …..

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सुनो, ऋतुराज

 

 

आशा बाली
हिंदी अध्यापिका, स्टडी हॉल
 
 
 

जीवन चैतन्य के आधार !
गतिशीलता के पर्याय !
उल्लास, उत्फुल्लता, उर्जा
तरुणाई,प्रेम,आभा , सौंदर्य
नव किसलयों पर कूक
आम्रगंध, बसंती बयार
चतुर्दिक व्याप्त सुषमा
संसृति पुष्पित पल्लवित किससे है?
जानते हो?
सभी कुछ तो मुझसे है।

लिखते पलाश की रक्तिम आभा सी

प्रथम दिन गई माँ की गोद में ज्यों मै
गृह लालिमामय लड़ैती लाडली से उद्भासित जीवन
पराग कण बिखरे प्रेम वात्सल्य के
एक विशाल मैंने उड़ान के स्वप्न
समाहित था उसी में
मेरी लड़ैती होने का एहसास।

और

गौरवान्वित हूँ कि मैं हूँ लड़की
प्रतीक हूँ मैं विकास कल्ल्याण का
क्रांति उत्थान का
समाज के स्थायित्व का
संगम हूँ, विद्वता, विनाश,
कोमलत्व, ममत्व का
वैज्ञानिक शोध, संगीत की मधुर तान
गणित की जटिलता, सभी में मेरा योगदान।
“वर्चस्व ” पर पाई मैंने सदा विजय
जगद्जननी बनी, संहारिणी बनी
संसृति का केंद्र बिंदु मै ही रही,
अग्नि की लपटों को छुआ है मैंने
और अविचलित धुरी बन

गार्गी, अपाला,मीरा

वीरांगना लक्ष्मी, कल्पना विलियम्स
बन सीता सी सहचरी
तापी हूँ मै, स्वर्ण सम

 

किया है मैंने भूत, भविष्य, वर्तमान एक रूप
दिया है मैंने अपनी ‘कुछि’ से जीवन स्वरुप
पूर्वजों के वंशज को
कोमल साक्ष्य को।
सूत्रधार हूँ मै, संसृति की हर कसौटी पर खरी उतरी हूँ, मैं।
विलक्षण अस्तित्व की स्वामिनी हूँ, मैं।

 

सुनो, ऋतुराज सुनो !
क्या अनिभिज्ञ हो तुम
इस वास्तविकता से?
कि, छिपी हैं मुझमें ही
प्रचंड काली,भैरवी भी,
फिर, मेरा आज यह अपमान क्यों ?
क्या चाहते तुम
इस संसृति का विनाश ?
सुनो, ऋतुराज सुनो!
सुनो, ऋतुराज सुनो!

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Working on men

 

Anju
Staff Didi’s Foods

I think the only way to change people’s mind set is to train our boys. Being a mother , sister, wife, daughter we should all try to redefine their outlook towards woman. The key to our current problem of gender bias can only be solved by working on men.

Transcribed by : Priyanka Chatterjee, Digital Study Hall

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Independent Respectful Life

 

Sushma
Staff, Didi’s Foods

I was married to a mentally disturbed man, I did not know that he was mentally disturbed at that time. He is unemployed and is not capable to support a family. I work to support my family, initially when I was newly married I went through a lot of mental trauma, mostly because of my in-laws. They used to beat me, torture me, traumatize me .But then I joined Didi’s and I got empowered when I stepped out of the house. I have learnt how to lead an independent and a respectful life.

Transcribed by : Priyanka Chatterjee, Digital Study Hall

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Make Women Safe on Street

 

Madhu
Staff, Didi’s Foods

One fine day I was returning from my work a man came and started snatching my saree pallo, I was quite shocked and gave a good bash to that man, it was a market place so he ran away immediately. These kind of activities happen every day, but now the time has come to take some serious actions against all such crimes and make women safe on street.

Transcribed by : Priyanka Chatterjee, Digital Study Hall

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Raise our voice

 

Kalawati
Staff, Didi’s Foods

I have been facing this very issue, I was on my way back from my work in a bus, men have no age bar for molestation. At first yes I was scared but I held my breath, and shouted out loud, I got saved because I raised my voice. The most essential and important thing is to raise our voice. This kind of incidents occur every day with women as a woman we should be always ready to face such incidents in our day to day life.

Transcribed by : Priyanka Chatterjee, Digital Study Hall

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पूनम का संघर्ष

किरण मिश्र
करंजाकला जौनपुर

पूनम जौनपुर की रहने वाली एक लड़की है।वो अपने माता पिता के साथ ईट भट्ठें पर काम करती है। वो पढना चाहती है लेकिन उसकी शादी की घर पर बात चल रही है।तभी उसे कस्तूरबा गाँधी बालिका विद्यालय के बारे में पता चलता है।पूनम मनो मन ही मन
विचलित हो उठी और विचार करने लगी की इस शादी को कैसे रोका जाए और स्कूल में दाखिला लिया जाये।
पूनम ने अपनी छोटी बहन के साथ बिना समय गवाएं स्कूल में नामांकन कराया और इसके इस प्रयास से घर वालो का शादी के लिए दबाव कम हुआ।
पूनम अब 8वी कक्षा की छात्रा है लेकिन अभी भी जब वो घर वापिस जाती है तो घर वाले उसपर शादी का दबाव बनाते हैं लेकिन अब वो इसका विरोध करती है और कहती है कि अभी उसे पढना है। लेकिन अब वह चिंतित है कि कक्षा 8 पढने के बाद जब वह घर जाएगी तो आगे कैसे पढ़ पायेगी और आगे की पढाई करने के लिए विद्यालय की जानकारी चाहती है।पूनम अभी आगे पढना चाहती है और शादी नहीं करना चाहती है।

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Education for all girls

Sudheer Gupta
Teacher, Study Hall School

Women have started getting empowered. Now a days it is clear that what a man can do, a women can do too sometimes even better. Indeed it seems that the future will be brighter for the women of India as they are steadily getting empowered. Education for the girl child can play an important role in improving their status forever. There are big number of male chauvinists who believe in those regressive traditions.

It is said if you teach a girl then you teach the whole family. So we should emphasize  more on education for all girls. The women who have been in the leadership position have really gone ahead and transformed the life of many people. There are many examples one is our Urvashi aunty( President and C.E.O of STUDY HALL).

Let us find out what makes women achieve all this and much more and still smile through difficult times. Take my example whenever I go home I observe my better half  tired of doing households chores yet smiling. My wife thinks from her head and heart while I think only with my head and seldom with my heart. Here women score over men. Today I pledge that I will always treat women as equal and do my best for their upliftment.
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