Women's day - Mar 09

International Women's day..

Internaional Women's day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 of every year. It was first celebrated on 28th Feb 1909 in the United States (courtesy: wikipedia).

It is a major day of celebration for the economic, political and social empowerment of women. It is good to see, in a society that was dominated by men, women making a mark for themselves in every other field ranging from the the local bus driver/conductors to politics to various fields in art to ruling a nation. Some of the women who have etched their presence in Indian history are Rani Chenamma, Onake Obava, Rani of Jhansi and many more. And all of these women have outperformed their male counterparts to either save their state or country from foreign invaders.

On one hand there is a day dedicated to celebrate the success of women and on the other we still get to see cases of female foeticide, infanticide, eve teasing, molesting, rape, acid attacks, dowry harassments and deaths. The celebration of IWD is complete only when all of this is completely eradicated and we, especially the men, help in reporting such cases to the concered authorities and ensure the wrong doers are rightly punished (the killers of 14 year old Aarushi, are still at large !!)

One good thing that happened today (8 Mar 09) is that one of my classmates became a proud father of a cute little angel baby girl. God bless the angel and her parents.