By Nehal Tapadia, Class X D
The fears of an unheard voice.
People say your sons are like your eyes. But if you have one daughter, you are blind in one eye. And if you have two daughters, then you are completely blind!
Well, her 9 months in the safety of her mother’s womb are slowly getting over and she’ll be coming out to meet the world. The world she is afraid of. The world in which she is vulnerable. Unlike the boys.
She doesn’t want to leave her mother’s womb because she is scared that as soon as she comes out, people will send her to her tomb. She’s heard them saying that she is sinful, sinful from the time her mother conceived her.
She has an unspoken fear. Fear of becoming a victim of the brutal people who find her deplorable. She doesn’t want to be part of a society where her honour is at risk and she will be expected to grow up only to become a slave, a doormat.
She is pleading for just one chance. Let her prove that she is no less than a boy. Welcome her into this world. She will not burden her parents. She will make them proud.
The girl child craves for equality. She craves to be as carefree and free-spirited as a baby boy, inside her mother’s womb.
