THE GLORIOUS WOMEN IN BLUE
Our Women's cricket team almost did a Chak De last night.
Almost.
But that is no reason for us to not celebrate how far this team has come.
It is never too easy for a woman to play a sport she loves in a country like ours where even marriage and number of kids she should have are decided by her family first and then by her in laws.
Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, the two longest serving Indian Womens' cricketer did just that and more.
Fought not just on cricket field but fought with the patriarchal society as a warm up every time they stepped up on the 22 yards.
The other day, Harmanpreet Kaur defied gender based myths by smacking powerful sixes which would have made Sehwag and Gayle proud..
I am sad Mithali, the Tendulkar of Women's cricket won't end up with a Worldcup like her male counterpart.
But she surely has inspired a generation of young girls who should now come out of their houses and pick their brothers' bats or better still ask them to bowl..
Whether we remain restricted only to Deepika Padukone's 'I am a free woman and I have the freedom to show my cleavage!' kind of feminism or the kind which Mithali and many of her teammates defied and redefined is upto us now.
THEY FOUGHT. THEY LOST. THEY STILL WON..
JAY HIND.
~Devashish
Our Women's cricket team almost did a Chak De last night.
Almost.
But that is no reason for us to not celebrate how far this team has come.
It is never too easy for a woman to play a sport she loves in a country like ours where even marriage and number of kids she should have are decided by her family first and then by her in laws.
Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, the two longest serving Indian Womens' cricketer did just that and more.
Fought not just on cricket field but fought with the patriarchal society as a warm up every time they stepped up on the 22 yards.
The other day, Harmanpreet Kaur defied gender based myths by smacking powerful sixes which would have made Sehwag and Gayle proud..
I am sad Mithali, the Tendulkar of Women's cricket won't end up with a Worldcup like her male counterpart.
But she surely has inspired a generation of young girls who should now come out of their houses and pick their brothers' bats or better still ask them to bowl..
Whether we remain restricted only to Deepika Padukone's 'I am a free woman and I have the freedom to show my cleavage!' kind of feminism or the kind which Mithali and many of her teammates defied and redefined is upto us now.
THEY FOUGHT. THEY LOST. THEY STILL WON..
JAY HIND.
~Devashish
