Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Bold and The Beautiful

“The Bhartiya Nari” has broken all shackles of subjugation and has arrived on the center stage with more temerity than skill or sense. She in her urbane avatar has made shyness, modesty completely vestigial. She flaunts her noodle straps and hot pants with a confident countenance. She dotes on a treasure of cosmetic products and wouldn’t even mind to go under the knife to get that perfect look. She is working, she is independent , she boozes, she fags , she wouldn’t even mind to live in.

Ah what a metamorphosis indeed. To think of it is this what women libation is all about. I am in a great fix as to how to define or to do the caricature of “aaj ki Bhartiya nari ” Take the television for example ,the leading soaps of our TV channels –“agle janam mohe bitya hi kijo” “balika vadhu” showcases the harassed and troubled female populace and the above description of women would be descended into faction . Then on a TV commercial of i pills make this notion very capricious. Then a survey that 80% of the women in India are sexually active before marriage surely seems dubious but again causes a serious aberration of my thought process.

To make it more worse there goes an “ITEM GIRL” (with due apologies to our favorite drama queen ) imitating our Sita Maiya
to choose her pati parmeshvar. She says she’s gone back to the archaic days of doing the arduous job of selecting her var.
She took the bold step of dating more than a dozen men in front of the camera and then on selecting one.
She avowed that she is a Bhartiya nari and applied mehndi for three coveted sajnas and then on settled for one not with a mangal sutra but a ring.

If I further exercise my desire to explore the world of misunderstood women of present era , I am again appalled by a completely different bevy of power puffed ladies. Yes it is quite a debate that do the women in power display the boldness and charisma.
There is our honorable first female president who is a complete epitome of “luck by chance” . Her work is subtle and no body is aware of her charisma. Then the UP Chief Minister who has been the butt of of scams and scandals does no further justice. Then comes the efficacy of our Speaker Meira Kumar , well she completely bowls you over. The softness of her voice is no handicap but her ability to negotiate and make peace unveils the untapped power of women.
Then on one is reminded of The Barkha Dutts, The KIran Bedis, The Arundati Roys, The Indira Nooyis , The Kiran Manjumdars, The Sania Mirzas,the Nirupama raos, for that matter even the Aishwarya Rais who have invariably transformed the cliches and hackneyed phrases associated with women.
So after a heterogeneous account of today’s “Bhartiya Nari” I finally conclude-
The Gen x woman is no iconoclast , avidly attacking morality . She is someone who has become aware of her needs be it emotional, financial, physical or mental and would do anything to fulfill them. She is no inane creature who makes impotent efforts to improve her plight. She is bold enough to dream and achieve . She knows her accounts and is aware of her feminism. She is out there beaming with beauty to take on a world of opportunities regardless of the clothes she wears , or the relationships she is into.
She is no Sati , no Savitri but the bold and the beautiful.

3 comments:

Yash Vardhan Parmar said...

The Bhartiya Nari has indeed transformed into Vital forms. The blog surely has been able to carve realistic characters out of item gals,corporate women,government officers,ancient epitomes representing race of Indian women.I believe independence is basic human right and shud be granted to every living creature. I am sure that this change is going to impart new definition to word woman in India and will teach us new aspects of freedom on this independence day.Waiting for more blogs that could reveal the true stories of Indian women, I am signing off . Thankx for the blog tanvi i am really glad dat u have taken writing again.

Subhashita Manjari said...

Nice post!

A Sanskrit Epigram says..

यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते
रमन्ते तत्र देवताः ।
यत्र तास्तु न पूज्यन्ते
सर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥

Where women are repected, even the gods enjoy transcendental bliss.
Where they are not respected, all actions result in failure.

Amitabh Mishra said...

A great blog! You are improving by leaps and bounds after every post. I guess everybody around has already started feeling the changes about the "Bhartiya Naari". What I feel is that as long as the ball is in the "Bold and the Beautiful" court, it is fine, but if it crosses over into the "Crude and the Vulgar" court, the entire taste changes.

You can check up my blog about the latter court on musingswidmustardsauce.blogspot.com and... do leave your comments.

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