सजग

  “Who, just tell me, who the hell is that new girl? Doesn’t she know that she has to bow down to the master? Shameless bitch! How dare she pass me without showing due respect? At this the girl’s in-laws and other elderly men from community falls at the man’s feet and beg for mercy. They request him to forgive her. But they ask for forgiveness not for the girl but for themselves also. The mother-in-law requests, “No, no kind master! That girl is a new animal in the herd! Quite foolish and ignorant. If she has erred, I her sasra, fall at your feet, but please forgive us for this crime.” -           ‘The Prison We Broke’ by Babytai Kamble Woman….a creature that is exploited, ill-treated, less valued   and oppressed since centuries and centuries. Literature is a mirror image of society. So, she didn’t even get correctly placed there. After realizing the patriarchal tyranny a feminist movement emerged gradually who talked about w...