Ray of Hope

She sat there alone, spinning a yarn.

With swollen eyes and tears that encompassed shattered dreams.

Felicitous desires had taken the role of macabre reality.

A mistake had pulverized her life forever.

Uncertain of her future, she felt redundant.

How she wished she could go back and amend her greatest folly!

Of intrusting a traitor and bringing dishonor to her family.

She had surrendered her body, mind and soul to him.

She looked out of the window and gazed the moon.

Alone in the dark sky, she found it solitary and despondent like her.

She kept her hand on the protruding belly.

The thought of her child’s somber future raised her trepidation.

She shut her eyelids and found a ray of hope subsisting in her.

Her child would be her moonlight, she thought.

And render her life with light whenever darkness took over.

Notwithstanding the anguish, there was a smile on her face,

And her amber eyes were desirous of embarking on a new journey.

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INCIPIENT OF A NEW DAWN

-Vaishali Sharma

The hardest profession to take in life is being a girl child. Starting from her presence into her mother’s womb to infancy, childhood and finally to adulthood, she faces many difficulties in this world. It is said that God created mothers because He could not be present everywhere. In a country like India where we worship goddesses like Durga and Parvati, it is opprobrious to see a God’s representative killing someone beautiful and impeccant even before she can enter the world and see the beauty of nature. Atrocities like female feticide and child marriages are still carried out in our country. Why can’t they see innocence in the eyes of their daughters before slaying them remorselessly? Is being born as a girl child a sin in our land?

Despite of these problems there is still something that doesn’t let us breakdown and leave the hand of hope. Suresh More, a farmer who lives in Mahalunge( a small village in Maharashtra) reckons that if we want our country to develop we must make sure that our girls are educated. He has two daughters and he wants them to attend school regularly and be sincere with their studies. He is also very much against child marriage. “The people who commit crimes like female feticide and child marriages should be apprehended. I’m a farmer and a poor man but I didn’t kill my daughters due to the fear of dowry. I’m very well cognizant that dowry is illegal and I’m a law abiding citizen. I want my daughters to be literate and stand on their own feet. I want to die in peace and that won’t happen unless my daughters are independent and living blithely.” Suresh More’s words are a slap on the faces of those people who think that a female child is nothing but a burden. His views are much more modern than those who live in urban areas, wear big –ticket clothes but discriminate between girls and boys and then call themselves ‘Modern’. 

People like Suresh More are the only ones who can make this country free from such abhorrent atrocities. We have numerous social awareness campaigns that are trying to make people aware of the eyesores that persist in our society but still some people fail to fathom their significance. On one hand we try to show that our country is progressing and on the other we kill our own daughters. Isn’t this nothing but hypocrisy? People like Suresh More give us hope that a new dawn will definitely arise where no girl child in this country will be tormented and excruciated.