The Real Pledge for Women’s Day

-By Ankita Roy

Ladies, you know they say about us! We are like tea bags - can’t tell how strong we are until you put us in hot water.  So it’s time to spread the aroma and get the chai boiling.  So this Woman’s Day let’s try and take a real pledge. And as is the way with change, it won’t happen overnight, it will be slow and steady

This woman’s day I demand parity, equality. And I do not demand this from the men. I demand this from me, you and us. 

So here’s the plan-we are going to be the change we want to see.

So I pledge today that one day when I become the ‘neighborhood aunty’, I will not look disapprovingly at girls with well toned legs in shorts. That, I think would do the society better.

I will rewrite the fairy tales I read to my daughter .The princess could maybe save herself. Sounds like a pretty good story to me.

"Beta, kitna kama lete ho?", would be a compulsory question on the shaadi interview questionnaire, the one which I ask the girl my son (or daughter) decides to marry.

It is strange how we are called the weaker sex while masculinity is so fragile that even the slightest brush with femininity destroys it. Just being called a girl will do it for them. Hence I am going to raise my son the way I would raise my daughter and not the other way round. And my son shall have nothing to complain about.

My dear ladies, I want us to turn into the men we want to marry so that we reach the point wherein we need men just as much. Get it ladies?

Now go shine on you crazy diamonds!