How Free? How Self-sufficient is Woman Today?

HOW FREE?   HOW SELF-SUFFICIENT IS WOMAN TODAY?tc "HOW FREE?   HOW SELF-SUFFICIENT IS WOMAN TODAY?"

Mrs. Bhavana S. Chari

(a) From the bondage, servitude and sacrifice of yore;
The woman has come a long way towards the edifice of the 21^st century;
From the slavery to Man, she has passed great lengths and sought justice;
She has made an unerasable mark in life as a symbol of patience and service !

(b) In America, the Statue of Liberty, stands as a symbol of womanhood;
In our own country, the “motherland” represents the prosperity, i.e. womanhood;
Sarojini Naidu and Toru Dutt, the Poetesses of Indian origin are of great renown;
The woman in us can waken to be a Mahadevi Varma or a Subhadrakumari Chauhan!

(c) She has stepped out of the threshold of the confines i.e. her abode;
She has crossed all the frontiers and left her stamp in every field;
It is she that is conquering the reins of the motherland.
Behind every successful man is a woman, in every deed!

(d) It is the woman, as a wife and lover, who sends the hearts fluttering;
It is she who is worshipped as a Goddess, a divine being;
She is the “mother” who bears and brings up her offspring;
It is she who has defined the words like “passion” and caring!

(e) Will it be long when complete freedom will come to her from the beast that is man;
When will a dowry death, a Sati-Pratha, and atrocities on her cease?
Will that day near when she will end to be a victim of fate,
When will she breathe the clean air that is “freedom” under a clear sky!