These days my daily bus ride is giving me a lot of insight on many things.. The journey is long and you get to overhear conversations if you want or not. You get to see some faces cringe and someone pushes them, you see college girls giggling and talking about their college mates and about some guy in the bus who is continuously staring at them. You get pushed by some man and I turn to give a stare and my most repeated sentence in Kannda these days seems to be "swalpa hinde hogi" ("plz go a little back").. Well.. these are the everyday issues
Today as I got into the bus (which unfortunately had all the seats occupied), I looked arround to find out who might get down. My friend and me do this everyday. Somehow, as you travel everyday, you become more or less like an astrologer always trying to predict if the college girls will get down at the stop of the nearing college or the next and who might get down in the last stop etc etc.. Anyways my hopes were not bright of getting a seat today as it was comparitively crowded. The lady sitting in a seat near me had "FOUR" kids with her. And then I observed that the elder ones were girls and the youngest a boy. That's when my friend and me started discussing. This happens even today doesn't it? The craze for a boy child is still very much alive. Afterall who would want a girl child? There are so many expenditures associated with a girl child. The main additional thing being the "dowry" and the "jewellery" and etc etc...
Everyone knows the solution.. What would happen if every girl's parent's started to say NO to every guy who asked for dowry? When there is no one who would give dowry obviously that guy is not going to stay single all his life waiting for dowry.. What if every parent in this world treated thier boy and girl child without any difference? What if every woman started to fight for her right? (instead of just letting all others arround her decide that its not a good idea).. We all know the solutions, but we have very few trying to make the change...
