Women's Rights?

We all talk about the patriarchal society in which we live in. We always stress on the fact that we're moving away from that particular phase in our endeavour for social development. This can also be affirmed by the fact that the future Indian President may be a woman. The aforementioned facts are all so general that we actually feel that women are going places. Are they really?

I read this incredibly horrible story about a 2 day old baby being buried by her grandfather ALIVE into a field in southern India. Thank God, and whatever was in that soil.. the baby survived. It is acts like these which makes us wonder, where are we headed? We're a nation which has a massive woman entrepreneur like Kiran Majumdar Shaw and yet we see female infanticide. There have been other cases of female foeticide, if I'm not wrong near the capital. Talk about irony.

Then, there's the story of a woman parading herself 75% naked on the streets of Rajkot. Why would a woman do such a thing? Due to the fact that she wanted to embarass her in-laws and her husband who basically destroyed her emotionally on another very stupid practice which is being carried on since time immemorial - dowry.

Being a guy, I might not even understand 50% of the problems women go through on a day to day basis, let alone stuff like fighting against your in laws or giving birth. I was shocked when I read the story of the attempted female infanticide. I don't even understand the rationale. How can a mother actually agree to her new born baby being killed so brutally? The mother is a woman after all.

It really does irk me when stuff like this happens. I'm sure it is reducing. There are laws against things like these. The various Women's Rights Organizations try to take people like Aishwarya Rai to court on a "public display of affection". They only care about their own recognition and forget all about the core issue - Women's Rights.

I feel sick. I'm appalled at all this nonsense going on... I'm simply disgusted.