dear society, why is it so difficult for you to accept that women can have talents and sometimes more than men? Why can’t you look at women as intellectuals rather than sex objects?

Even if your attempt to understand women might be positive, it would be much better if you let women speak. Rather than making assumptions, wait, confirm and listen to women.

Make your mothers realise that their individualities and self-respect matter too. Raising a voice against injustice will not leave their kids orphaned but will give them new strength and perspective towards life.

Why should women be treated as someone who tend to falter every time? Why doesn’t society trust a woman’s discretion?

Society does work without any major adjustments done by men. Then why can’t it function when women refuse to adjust? What is stopping us from letting women thrive?

So dear people who pass on sexist jokes, it is not laughable at all. It is just a way to demean a woman without taking the responsibility for it.

It is imperative for society to change its rigidity towards married woman’s identity and make it an open ground. This will allow more women to be happy in marriage, ambitious in marriage and outspoken in marriage.

So be it Anjali, Sanjana from Bollywood, no woman must change herself to meet the social norms. The social norms that women are forced to meet are patriarchal and do not value a woman’s identity beyond her subjection to the men in society.

We are not living in older times when women won’t grow or retaliate. Like me, many women question the gender bias around them and refuse to be silenced. It is time society understands the power that womanhood embodies and respects it.

Haw! Do you smoke and drink? How unsanskari you are!