Author: Ojeswini
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An Unborn Girl’s Cry: Against Female Feticide
Female Feticide is a crime against humanity… We all are talking about Women empowerment these days but the fact remains that female fetus is being killed… It’s no empowerment! God has not yet made the lines on my hand, And you have announced the judgment of my stand. Please, Dad! Don’t have me killed, I,…
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No More Excuses
For pot-bellied uncles staring shamelessly For lechers ogling, whistling by the roadside For exploiting girls and killing ruthlessly For chauvinistic men forcing female foeticide, Now, no more clumsy lame excuses. For game-seeking loafers and perverts at bus-stands For all powerful molesters who got to get away For masochistic husbands wielding an upper hand For “she…
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Laxmi Agarwal – Within me lies the strength
Lakshmi Agarwal, a survivor of acid attack has been listed among 13 brave Indian women, whose fight changed the system. She continues to be an inspiration for everyone, who requires mental strength and agility. She loved music and dance, but her first day of music lesson, in April 2005, is marked as ‘doom’s day’ because…
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Our Breasts
Breasts – whose existence I got to know of when an ill-fitting bra was thrust my way When I spent months praying that they go away.Because they came in the way of many things including sports, clothes and general comfort. Suddenly I was reminded of them every day, Because unlike the clitoris which provides immense…
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Why we are so Unfair towards “Dark Girls”
Every day you’ll see tonnes of confessions by India’s dark girls (savli, tan, dusky or whatever you would like to call us in the milder version!) on different opinion blogs where they simply blurt out their deepest frustrations. Some have been rejected by their crush/lover, some were shamed by their potential in-laws and some were…
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Independence to Rape
On 15th August 1947, she stood proud and tall A name of her own, a home for her people Her very own soil she could lay rest on Achieved through much toil and turmoil Its 19th January 2014, another one down A beautiful twenty-one year old, salvaged and mauled on It’s not just now, not…
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India Needs To Criminalise Marital Rape
You hear advertisements, movies and people screaming to the world that rape is rape, even within a marriage. But does our law hear this? No. “Section 375” of the Indian Penal Code reinstates the legality of marital rape in India by listing marital rape as an exception to the crime of rape, stating that, sexual…
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I am a Girl, Maa Please Save me…
It’s a story of an unborn unlucky Girl, who tries to Talk to her mother, from her mother’s Womb Maa, can you hear me, please tell me can you hear me? I know you can because you to love me. I remember the very first moment, Actually, my life’s last awesome moment. When I saw…
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Remember Women Remember
Remember Women, you were born as Life giver, miracle creator and magic maker. You were with the heart of a thousand mothers, Open, fearless and sweet. You were born with fears of Queens and conquerors, Warrioress blood you bleed. You were born with the wisdom of sages and shamans, No wound can you not heal.…
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I AM WOMAN
I am not a treasure whom you can buy in falling measure any time for your pleasure I am not a road to reach a goal to multiply your prestige you gift me to public I am not an anthill weak and brittle whom you can break at your mercy and will I am fire…