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  RE-ENVISION ENVISION: I magine as a future possibility; visualize Envision means to imagine or form an idea about something mostly about the future My blog aspires you to open up your mind and re-imagine a world that is more equal, more egalitarian, and basically more human And from this meaning and perspective, the word RE-ENVISION has come alive I implore you through my writings and various other forms of expressions to re-envision our today to create a better tomorrow Through my blogs, I hope to provide you all the courage, hope, and determination to re-envision your today in order to re-define our collective and individualistic future If gender equality is said to be achieved by 2050 I encourage you to re-envision this situation today itself How you ask? By taking a step forward By letting your daughters sit aside from the cooking duties forced on her and teaching your son how to cook, a basic life skill that so many boys are unable to learn because they are boys and so many ...
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                            NOT YOUR RIGHT All she ever wanted was respect and affection but sadly, even that was a tragedy abysmal   This story is not of a single person, it comprises an entity of individuals it’s not a tragedy in gear, it’s a lullaby everyone should hear   It reflects upon a story of You, Me and Her of all ladies across the globe who swallow every single insult just to look for an ounce of affection   This is not a mere story for us to pity, it is what we can recognize as our never-ending ‘reality’   SLAP! she heard the sound ring through the whole house, as she sprawled painfully on the ground shock resonated through her body  unable to register the danger looming ahead   She watched in budding horror at the man she had once loved who now assailed her for a mistake she had never done   She cried for hours...
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  CHAINS OF THE SOCIETY I had hoped to live in a palace but labor was a  pillar The Society was a barrier that I was unable to cross Hence, here I am, a child laborer So, come and hear the thoughts that I have about my being   Society is such a tyrant place, I wonder why I was bought there My requests were never heeded to, I was taught to be careful For I was never to be caught My life had become boring and dull, Each day receding like a converging mull   My life was a plight, a miserable sight I was overwhelmed by this forbidden sight, For I was bounded to the chain of rules That was, in fact, our society to begin by I had lost my aplomb, I had become a bolshie lamb, Bleating noises escaped from me, Wanting to be freed from this plight   Wanting and Having are two separate elements Both of them mulish in their own ways The norms of the society are a great fearful thing, Cause they made me look like a deviant beast Deviant as I was, Everybody showed me empathy F...
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HAS THE 'CONSTRUCT OF GENDER' BEEN MORE HARMFUL OR MORE BENEFICIAL TO HUMANITY THROUGHOUT HISTORY? Putting an end to toxic gender norms  Edmund Burke once said and I quote “Those who don’t know the history are destined to repeat it” Gender-based norms and assumptions have been repeating regularly in the same way at different intervals of time throughout history. In order to understand and form a consensus regarding the impact that this Social Constructionism of Gender has had, we primarily need to review the history of ‘Construct of gender’.  For the record, Gender, by definition is the state of being male, female or other with reference to social and cultural norms. The construct of gender was done to characterize and differentiate between different people on the basis of their biology as well as according to expected social and cultural norms.  Throughout history, the gender construct has been an unjust and unequal base forming a binary which has g...
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                                                     GENDER IMPARITY TODAY'S PRIME ISSUE.  WILL IT ALSO BE TOMORROW’S ? I was recently flipping through the pages of my 10 th grade yearbook when I came across the poems written by my then fellow classmates on the topic '20 years hence’. I recollected how excited we all were to share our dreams and aspirations for what the Future held in its cocoon for all of us. However, my feeling of elation and nostalgia dissipated rather quickly and was replaced with something akin to sadness when I ran my eyes over the sentences of my friend’s poem. I continued reading till I reached the end and that was when I let out a sigh, staring straight at the rather pale wall ahead.                  A lot of my male friends had expressed ...
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  The 21st Century was supposed to be an age where all discriminations based on various grounds like race, religion and gender would cease to exist. An Age when people would be able to voice their opinions without fear, where a good education would be a right and not a privilege of every individual, where citizens of this global world would be united against injustice. An Era when females would be able to roam freely without a feeling of threat, When Racism would have just   been an aspect of past and would have no part in the present and future, When Feminism and Gender Equality would have been achieved. But things instead of uplifting like aforementioned have become more downgrading than ever before. Racism has taken a horrendous turn with George Floyd’s inhuman death causing an uproar around the world and leaving an unpleasant and shameful reminder for all of us that Racism is still alive in this global age. The word Feminism has become an insulting movement and ...
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