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Every Indian woman has been through something like this. Written in light of the criticism faced by Samantha Ruth Prabhu for divorce and the moral trial of women who don't want to fit a definition.
Every Indian woman has been through something like this. Written in light of the criticism faced by Samantha Ruth Prabhu for divorce and the moral trial of women who don’t want to fit a definition.
Like a martyr misunderstood Like a visionary seeing far ahead She was living in times too soon
She didn’t want to apologize For not knowing what sabzi to buy She didn’t want to answer when everyone asked her to quit
She wanted to be free to love And she wanted to move on When unrequited
She didn’t want to bring up children Imperfect, lacking in ambition Idolizing mothers who cook and fathers who don’t
She wouldn’t be mediocre Just to make him feel good Or be the ‘good’ he defined
Why did she try so hard then, to make the roti’s round? Why didn’t she leave sooner Before they got to her?
Because even if she did It wouldn’t have mattered The times were too soon you see,
Too soon, it might always be.
Image source: Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s Instagram
Tanushree Ghosh (Ph. D., Chemistry, Cornell, NY), is Director at Intel Corp., a social activist, and an author. She is a contributor (past and present) to several popular e-zines incl. The Huffington Post US ( read more...
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