Visit to Natt Busty...

A smile so adorable- Is she aware of the dark future that awaits to captvate her ?....

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  I am a Femocrat- and proud to be one :) !....






..A team of 16 enthusiastic students in collaberation with a local NGO  along with our very supportive Principal ma'am  and our psychology teacher Preetika ma'am, we went for a visit to Natt busty in Pilani - a very small village which is the abode of only 30 families. We had prepared an awareness programme for the villagers- to spread awareness about issues like child marriages, prostituion and dowry system which was flourishing in that  village.
 The village looked like any other remote village of India....dry, arid, light-less and knowledge-less, yet this chunk of land had amazing dwellers who by birth took up begging as a profession- the men I am talking about, the girls were either voluntarily sent for prostitution ( Though now thanks to the NGO the prostitution and begging business has stopped almost completely),or they are married off!...While we were at the village a lady asked me 'How old are you?" ( In hindi )..."17" said I....she was FLABBERGASTED "Aap abhi bhi kuwari ho?" i.e.- Are you still a spinster she interrogated.......Sigh!...Every girl in that village above 13 was married....and Oh yes!..That reminds me that somewhere in a rulebook called THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA- It is mentioned that the marriagable age of a girl is 18 years.! How ironical!
The girls there had their pretty faces hidden behind veils. When someone asked them to show their faces, a girl of about 15 replied in a meek voice " Aadmi marega".----Do the hell with aadmi!....Another girl started wailing in front of us "I am getting married nest month, but I don't want to".....We were helpless because as students we were not in the position to stop a marriage that was set to happen that too in a staunch village of Rajasthan.....A tiny girl from the crowd when asked said that she wanted to become a police officer later in life, another girl wanted to become a Doctor.... My heart was filled with pride and sorrow at that moment. I was proud because these young ladies DARED TO DREAM...such big dreams..I was scared because partly I was sure that they would probably get married in a year or two and their dreams would just become mere mirages in the desert .........
This was only a sneak peek at one village of India -- there are 90000 other villages with similar or even worse conditions but hey we are the second most populous country...We can distribute ourselves in these villages and do our own bit to empower the women. Our team pays regular visits and we impart knowledge on basic necessities like health and hygeine, sanitaion, demerits of child marriages etc.....We will do more, we will contribute more......dying to grow up !

The words scribbled on the wall....remain mere words!

Try Try until you succeed---- spreading awareness is a great contribution.

This lady has begged for 48 years of her life.....!

HA! Do you notice the young boys all happy and gay whislt the girl at the back hides her face and the one at the front stares in dismay :(

She does not want to marry....her parents won't listen.....the authorities stay idle and we are help and hapless

The girls in pink and yellow don't know their age...Sigh....lest ways they were married two years ago.

"Aadmi marega"....said she !

The day....millions like the above....will be well fed  well clad.....and well equipped with the tools of knowledge, awareness and education.....You and me shall celebrate the joy of being born as Humans...rather Girls!